The belief in a God who is far away from us, “over there,” and who wants and needs or desires or demands something from those of us “over here,” is what allows humans to grant themselves the moral authority to inflict punishments of their own upon those who they believe have ignored God’s Word and…

“Yes, but as a practical political matter, how would ‘Oneness’ work?”, a questioner in my audience in Hamburg pointedly asked me last week. I had only to look to Myanmar to find an example. I had just finished telling a crowd of over 300 that the single biggest mistake humanity has ever made has been…

(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 toward…

(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 toward…

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