The mosaic of history and the present crisis
Beyond the urge to exhort, assured rejoicing unveils a partial glimpse of the mosaic of world history . . .
Month: October 2016
Hope—between despair and radiant assurance
Hope occupies a place on the spectrum of confidence ranging from despair to radiant assurance. Despair implies that hope has vanished. Radiant assurance is beyond hope, which implies a degree of uncertainty.
Civil Wars
The United States of America is being torn by a civil war of clashing minds involving not only starkly differing ideas but also anger, contempt, and hatred. A war need not involve military force in order to be profoundly divisive and destructive.
The remedy I propose has implications for strengthening any social group.
A Part of Nature that Partly Transcends Nature
One of my favorite things to say to people: You are a divinely created, infinitely loved, spiritually indwelt, evolutionary, free-will son or daughter of God. I usually end my podcast episodes with this assurance. But what does the word “evolutionary” mean here?
Transformation, Liberation, Salvation
When a monarch butterfly emerges from the chrysalis, we see transformation, but not salvation, nor exactly liberation.
A new podcast is born
Simple beginnings, quiet rivulets joining a mighty river, each drop with its uncertain path, as the river flows forward in the unstoppable field of gravity, spirit gravity.