As
reported in the "News & Commentary" column in this week's Sentinel, the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, presented a lecture last year titled "The Moral Foundations of Society.
The
heinous crimes that have occurred recently in places like Bosnia, Rwanda, Tokyo, and in Oklahoma have many Christians wrestling with the concept of forgiveness.
In
the face of a personal crisis or a larger disaster, like the bombing in Oklahoma City last April or the terrorist attacks on the Tokyo subway system, many issues obviously demand immediate attention.
Sometimes
a resolve to break out of old patterns of thought and behavior—to be different, to be new—can well up in us through a glimpse of our inherent purity and goodness as God's spiritual offspring.
