“Maybe it’s time to build institutions that harness people’s natural longing to do good.”
Assuming that human beings are fundamentally selfish makes them that way. More from David Brooks in The New York Times: The Power of Altruism
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6.11Feast of St. Barnabas
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St. Barnabas calls us to consider the way we live, rather than worrying about how or when we will die. More from Melissa Musick after the jump:
Read More1.27Pope Francis’ Lenten Message
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Pope Francis speaks about “the globalization of indifference” and Jesus’ “way of poverty” in his Lenten message for 2015. Ash Wednesday is February 18th. Read the full text of his message from NCR here: Pope Francis’ Lenten Message
10.21Misc: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For
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Kate Murphy writes for The New York Times about how people are paying for the order of the driver behind them in drive-throughs as a random act of kindness, “Perhaps the largest outbreak of drive-through generosity occurred last December at Tim Horton’s in Winnipeg, Manitoba when 228 consecutive cars paid it forward.” Read it here: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For.
9.12Jesus Isn’t the God of Giving People What They Deserve
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TCC’s own Anna Keating reflects on (Luke 6: 27-38) for FaithND. Read the passage and then read her reflection on it: Jesus Isn’t the God of Giving People What They Deserve
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