As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.