Must human beings have male parts in order to be eligible to serve God as a member of the upper administration of His Church? Or, it put it more directly, can women be bishops? What does God want? Add why? Well, we’ve had some interesting conversations here the past several days around the subject of…

Of course, we are all shocked and deeply saddened by the passing of Tim Russert last Friday. God bless him, and God bless his family and friends. I want this commentary to be up here for two days — Monday and Tuesday — because I want us to all just stop for a moment and…

As we all know, the Constitution of the U.S. includes a prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment.” A week ago today the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought to the court to decide whether lethal injection used in death penalty cases violates that prohibition. There has been a string of legal challenges…

(NOTE: This weblog creates, for us all, a chance to meet at the interaction of Life and the New Spirituality. It is written by the author of Conversations with God, the worldwide best-selling series of books. The “New Spirituality” is defined by the author as “a new way to experience and express our natural impulse…

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