Gospel Fare
The Paradox of Power and the Secret Strength of Meekness
What is power? It is self-mastery and persuasive virtue that honors agency, invites participation, and endures.
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November 17, 2025
What is power? It is self-mastery and persuasive virtue that honors agency, invites participation, and endures.
What role does emotional control play in peacemaking? Managing anger allows logic to guide solutions effectively.
How can faith be recognized? True faith is revealed through sacrifice, not appearance, and challenges comfort.
Can compulsive pornography use be healed? Aligning life with virtue and truth offers lasting change.
Why is overcoming CPU difficult? Deeply ingrained cultural habits mislead individuals, fueling the behavior.
The Christian Virtue approach emphasizes moral development and social relationships in overcoming challenges related to compulsive pornography use.
Although tolerance is believed to be a way to avoid contention, if applied incorrectly, it can be used more as a weapon than a notion of compassion.
Tolerance must have its limits, but what should those limits be? Thinkers on the right and left have come to very different conclusions.
Along with scientific and historical reasons for concern, the words of modern prophets have consistently warned about the destructive potential of unbridled anger.
Ideas have consequences—big ones, personal ones. Patrick Deneen’s book Why Liberalism Failed laments the modern view of freedom, but what’s the alternative?