Conversations with God

This is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, where I am writing this, and where Thanksgiving Day is one of the biggest family holidays of the year. But I have an idea about this holiday that is different from most Americans. I think that the holiday should be abolished. I don’t think that Thanksgiving should…

Wednesday is Question and Answer Day on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God books and the New Spirituality. Here’s this week’s entry… Topic: Wanting and Choosing Question asked by: Richard Conrad Question:I have read and listened to your series. I, too,…

THE NEW WARS OF RELIGION says the headline on the November 3rd-9th edition of The Economist — one of the world’s most articulate periodicals — in a special 18 page report on faith and politics. It is an issue not to be missed. In fact, it may be one of the most important magazine pieces…

Okay. Enough is enough. Now some bishops in the Roman Catholic Church are saying that one “wrong” vote in next year’s presidential primaries could send you to hell. Writer Cathy Lynn Grossman reported in USAToday last Thursday that the day before, Catholic bishops “approved a statement on the nature of ‘faithful citizenship’ that hammers home…

I was reading a newspaper on Friday and was shocked to learn that 26 people have been executed this year through use of the death penalty — not in one country, but in one state. Can you guess which state that is? Yee-up…Texas — Death Penalty Central, USA. Good ole’ proud-as-a-whip Texas. They don’t kid…

On each of the past two Saturdays we have explored here what may well be life’s single most important question….What does God want? What is God asking for from humanity? What does God require? We’ve been undertaking this exploration by category. If you missed those other two entries, it may be well worth your while…

Friday is Book Day on the blog, when we take a look at books – old and new — that I highly recommend you not miss. This week’s recommended reading: Big Mind – Big Heart: Finding Your Way, Dennis Genpo Merzel. Is talking to your own Mind a “conversation with God”? I have often said…

When I was a child I had a deep fascination with God. What was He like, I wondered? Where did He live? I know now that my ideas about God as a man living somewhere in the sky were the products of my childhood upbringing in a Roman Catholic family. I know that God is…

Wednesday is Question and Answer Day on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God books and the New Spirituality. Here’s this week’s entry… Topic: Wanting and Choosing Question asked by: Cathy Campbell Question: Hi Neale: I had to put down the Trilogy…

Recently I have been receiving a lot of mail from people wanting to know how come I agitate so actively for CWG readers to help create change in our world. Many of these readers ask, “I thought CWG said to ‘See the perfection.’ What gives?” It is true that Conversations with God says that “what…

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