Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

This is my first post on the issue of why I am very skeptical of having a Pagan clergy.  I will come at it on an angle. To have an official ‘clergy’ is to have some organizational structure with authority to say who is clergy and who is not.  But organizations tend to become corrupt,…

USA Today reports  the American Religious Identification Survey reports the number of people reporting they have no religion continues to increase in the United States. Fifteen percent of those replying said they had no religion.  In 2001 the number was 14.2 percent and 8.2 percent in 1990.  The decline includes Catholic and non-Catholic Christians.  Meanwhile…

I spent yesterday flying back to California.  It’s weird to take off from Paris at 10 am, and arrive in San Francisco at 1 PM.  My body also thought it was weird and is still catching up.   One of my readers in particular responded in such a long and thoughtful way to my post…

From earliest recorded times many people have sought to understand as best they could the foundations for spiritual reality. Throughout the early ancient world from at least India to Greece, ‘monism’ appears to have been the most favored model.  It accorded with the experiences reported by mystics and seemed to handle people’s experience of there…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners