Conversations with God

What are we telling our young people, what are we teaching our children, about life and how it is? Do we understand that children learn more from our actions than from our words? If we want a newer world for our children, we have to do what it takes to stop them from re-creating our…

I’ve run across a book that could change your life from the time you open to the first chapter to the moment you close the last. I want to tell you about it, because I believe that you will be very, very glad that I did. * * * * * * * * *…

Many human beings have come to think about life is a way that has nothing to do with what us actually true. Unless the work together to change our cultural story, we will find ourselves heading down the path to our own demise. I do not mean that humanity itself is going to be destroyed…

If there is something you desire in life that you don’t have, how can you give it away to others? That is an interesting question — yet giving to others what you, yourself, desire is the fastest way to experience having it, says Conversations with God. = = = = = = = = =…

For all the accomplishments of human beings, there is one thing — one simple thing — that our species has not been able to do. Get along. Why is this, do you imagine? Think about this. With all that humans have been taught through their myths, in their cultural stories, and by their religions—with all…

Ideas — fresh, new, exciting, innovative ideas — have always been the lifeblood of any evolving society. Yet in the area of religion, new ideas are almost always discouraged. No new ideas, please. No new thoughts. I am familiar with this opposition to new ideas in theology because, as the author of the nine-book Conversations…

Don’t ask for anything from God. Ever. Don’t ever do it. Asking God for anything is the surest way to make certain you never receive it. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…

We say that we build our lives on our most sacred beliefs. But is it possible that some of our beliefs about God and life are actually self-destructive? Humanity had better look at this…and soon. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…

What is the meaning of life? What is its purpose? How might be live our lives to get the most out of them, and to give the most to them? Those are pretty big questions for a movie to try to answer…and I’m not sure that any movie that I know of does that. But…

You may know that Pope Benedict XVI made an assertion last July that the Catholic Church was the only true church. Can this is correct? If so, what does this mean? Is every other path to God doomed to failure? In a video just released, Steve Farrell, the worldwide coordinator director of a global grass…

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