A Tale of Two Cities

Stealing from the title of Dickens' book A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Watershed's story could be equally called A Tale of Two Wisdoms: God's Wisdom and Human Wisdom (1991-2015). I tell this story not in order to disparage the intellect or learning from a human point of view but rather to show how we might have used these two wisdoms incorrectly. Why and how wisdom gets expressed in our lives is what I have in mind.

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H. Richard Niebuhr: An Introduction

Richard Niebuhr was brought up in a German American family with deep roots in the intellectual world of Europe. He breathed in the American atmosphere of change, activity, progress and capitalism, all of which called for an activist response to social injustice.

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