Conversations with God

Each of us, in the living of our lives, brings a message to each of the other of us. In this way, God is made manifest in Man, and Divinity is expressed through Humanity. Now the only way that anyone would have a problem with that is if someone carried a thought that God is…

We are living in a time of near continual change. Everything around us is changing is some way, it seems. And change — so our psychologists tell us — is the single most stressful of all human experiences. How to deal with it? In our next blog, I would like to comment on some of…

The Wal-Mart incident raises some very hard-to-look-at questions about all of us. Human beings like to think of themselves as an advanced species. Yet are we? At the Wal-Mart store in Valley Stream, New York yesterday a 34-year-old employee was killed by shoppers trampling him to death as they pushed into the store seeking Black…

Is it okay to tell God what we most desire? Does God want us to simply sit back and accept whatever the Universe dishes out? Or do we have a pathway to God that may be used to bring about a hoped-for outcome? This is not a small question. Every religion on the face of…

In the United States this is Thanksgiving Day. Yet while millions seek a place in their hearts from which to express gratitude, the world continues to be filled with terror and uncertainty. The horrific terrorist attack in Mumbai tells our world, again, that the human heart is so deeply wounded. What could cause any human…

Is it loving to announce and reveal the unloving behaviors of others? Should we never offer an observation, much less a criticism, of those who do things with which we disagree? Yesterday I asked this question, and drew quite a response. One Commentor said… Write about the things that allow us to see your loving…

Is it unloving to observe and comment upon the unloving behaviors of others? Does love for the despot allow the despot’s behavior to continue unnoticed? This is not a small question as the world slowly migrates to a new understanding of God and Life and Love, and the real reason that we are all here…

I said yesterday that I believe what the world needs is a new idea about God. Some of our present ideas are hurting us very badly. They can cause wars. They can produce violence. I will explore more of this in the days ahead. Today, I want to share a short insert from Guest Columnist…

I have been convinced by a Christian minister that what we need in this world is a new idea about God. I want to thank Rev. Mark Holick of Wichita for that. You may recall that yesterday in this space I spoke of an interview that Rev. Holick, is pastor of Spirit One Christian Church…

By now I suppose you have heard. A Christian minister in Wichita is insisting that President-Elect Barack Obama is a Muslim. He put a sign in front of his church saying so. Rev. Mark Holick, pastor of Spirit One Christian Church in Wichita, Kansas, placed the following words on the billboard outside his church the…

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