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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ~ Clare Booth Luce For nearly a year now we’ve been talking about the…
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Courage Quote of the Day
“We don’t conquer this world’s mischief and wrongdoing and malice once and for all, and then forever after enjoy the moral harvest of that victory….
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Truth to Power
On this blog we’ve been discussing moral courage quite a lot lately. One sign of a lack of moral courage is hypocrisy. A story the…
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About Stories
“The true meaning of a story is not something one can extract from the story itself. The whole story — character, setting, plot, theme, language…
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Flourishing or Withering on the Vine
Lisa’s recent post describing how moral courage has its roots in empathy had me thinking. What about those times when empathy is blighted or stunted?…
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Four Dragons
In the West, we frequently use dragons as a metaphor for evils, wrongs, or unnamed fears that must be conquered. In China, however, dragons are…
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The Bloody Hook and Halloween Candy Poisoners
When I was a teenager, we heard that two kids from a rival high school had been “parking” near the reservoir late one Saturday night….
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About Stories
“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are…
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Don’t Be Scared!
I grew up in an old farmhouse that had two dim and musty attics, a dark, multi-chambered and cobwebby basement, a ramshackle garage and a…
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