Meeting The Masters

 I've been thinking about the difference between love and compassion. Spiritually speaking, compassion is a Buddhist virtue while love i...

 A(nother) perceptive  post by Bruce Charlton prompted a comment from me and since it concerns the most important spiritual quality and the...

 If there was ever a cliché then this is it. Yes, love is love but what is love? I saw on a comment thread recently a claim by one of the pa...

 At the end of my last post I mentioned that what Christ offers to those who follow him is a new Creation - worth capitalising I think. I wo...

Love and compassion are often confused these days but they are not the same thing and it is important to distinguish between the two or love...

 Religious people need to recapture the idea of love from secular humanists who have taken it over and recast it according to their limited ...

 It should be obvious to anyone nowadays that the modern evils known as racism and sexism are being promoted as the deadliest of secular sin...

Yes, you read that correctly. This is an article by someone who believes in God and Jesus Christ and wishes to follow them that is going to ...

 Does this make sense?  The strong antipathy and disgust that good has for evil comes from a love of the good. The hatred that evil has for ...

If we believe in God and we believe that God is love then we have to question what exactly love is. Because if God really is love then love ...

Bruce Charlton has been writing recently in his usual illuminating style  about the love of God and this set me thinking because, in a way, ...

Here's a question. If God loves everything unconditionally, does he love evil? Obviously not. God loves something because it is. Exist...

We live in a very empathetic age. Or rather an age in which empathy is regarded as a most desirable characteristic which is not quite the sa...

This is in part a continuation or restatement of the previous post, Love and Law. Sometimes expressing the same thing in a slightly differe...

It's a great shame there is only one word for love in English. It has led to all kinds of misapprehensions with earthly love being confu...

I find it telling that Jesus told us to love our neighbour and to love our enemies but he did not tell us to love humanity. This must be b...