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Who are we? Are we mere biological beings? Are we spirits with a body? What is our “right relationship” to God? I said here yesterday that, historically, humanity has sparked itself with a glimmer of hope, then returned to its sadness and its anguish, its turmoil and its conflict, its pain and its suffering. For…

Many people agree that God works in the lives of human beings. But the question is: How? Through unasked-for intercession? Through begged-for miracles? Through answered prayers? And how about the problems of the world? Does God work with the world itself to solve those dilemmas? And again, if so…how? And what role, if any, does…

In romantic “trysts” that occur outside of an established marriage, why is it that the woman is always the one who wears the scarlet ‘A’? Is not the man equally responsible? For that matter, is it possible that it is not even a question of ‘guilt’? Read this… = = = = = = =…

The world faces an extraordinary array of problems, as we all know. But here is something we do not know: Who is working to solve them? Part of the problem with problems is that there are so many people who seem to want to do nothing about them. Usually this is because they firmly believe…

What do you think is needed now in our world? Have any guesses? I do. I believe that what is needed now in our world is that we change our minds about God, about life, about each other, about why we’re here and about how life could best function. = = = = = =…

It’s great to have our spiritual beliefs inform our politics, but what if those spiritual beliefs are ancient understandings that cannot possibly be applied to our modern world? How do the rules of Yesterday’s God apply to humanity today? = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…

There are some things in life I just don’t understand. For instance, I just don’t understand a regime such as the one in Myanmar that would wait one minute, much less days and days and days, to accept international assistance in dealing with a nationwide calamity such as the cyclone that hit there. To me…

The Phoenix has landed, and so we have another unmanned spacecraft on the planet Mars. And once again we are asking the question in very real terms, “Is there life out there?” Mars is 171 million miles from Earth, and it took the Phoenix module 10 months to get there. Of course, it didn’t go…

There is hardly a more controversial subject than God’s view of sexuality. What is it, anyway? What does God think of all this? What does God want? = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…

The journey of the soul is an endless one, with peace and joy and love as the destination–and with an ability to reach that destination in any moment. Life goes on around us, and the temptation is to make it all very real. Yet the trick is to be “in this world, but not of…
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