The Provincial Emails
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
  Get a move on, Milwaukee!
Richard Thieme writes in Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
I came to Milwaukee in 1987 as the head pastor of a downtown church. In my sermon at the installation service, I named two issues that I believed were critical to Milwaukee's future, economically and spiritually -- race relations and the kinds of jobs that would sustain our economy during a time of change.

Twenty years later, I could give the same sermon, with the same result.


Assuming he's right, he presumably could have written this piece in 1987 about a sermon given twenty years before.
Insanity is defined as doing the same things long after it is clear they do not work.

For example, his article repeating his sermon.
 
Comments:
We are not called to be successful (though that would be very nice!); we are called to be faithful.
 
Here's a comment on another variation of your false dichotomy:

"Oh, I get it. If you're pleased that because your community is growing, more children are being taught and poor being served and a vibrant spiritual center in your community is growing and providing what vibrant spiritual centers have provided for two millenia of monastic and religious life...STOP IT, YOU CRASS AMERICAN CAPITALIST, YOU!"
--Amy Welborn
 
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