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From emotion through value to worship
July 16, 2016
From sweets to saints, various attractions fill the mind. Diverse values activate emotional responses that are sometimes disordered. A lesson from psychology helps us order our value-responses gloriously. . . .
Ten truths of philosophy
July 9, 2016
If we want to base our lives on truth, many of us think mainly of truth in the spiritual sense; but the truth of God is all encompassing. Cosmic truth includes also the truths of science,
Elie Wiesel selected highlights
July 9, 2016
Deported to the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of 14, Elie Wiesel wrote Night in 1958 as the story of what he at that time continued to experience as the death of his faith in God because of what he saw and went through in the camps. His faith returned, but this book remains an important testimony to what happened. Here are selections from it, translated by Marion Wiesel (Hill and Wang [Farrar,… Read More
Getting to know people with a vocational interview
July 2, 2016
What do you do for a living? What advice would you give to someone who is going to do that work? What is the greatest satisfaction that you found in that work? What is your greatest challenge in your work, and how do you respond, when you are living at your best?
Is there a way? A truth? A life?
June 5, 2016
A: Do you think there is a way? B: A way? To where? A way out. I don’t care where. I just want out. A: The desire for a way out implies dissatisfaction with where you are now plus the idea that there is a better place to be. Am I interpreting you correctly?
Loneliness, community, and spirit
May 28, 2016
So many people are lonely! And how deep is the loneliness! It is a loneliness of soul, craving a friend, craving a community to belong to, a safe place to communicate these longings and to take the steps on a journey.
Good-bye
May 21, 2016
Beloveds, This weblog is the recording of a priceless conversation setting forth the only available, well-developed philosophy of living in truth, beauty, and goodness. The need for this emerging philosophy is great, and within the next decade or so, I expect that a number of works will appear to complement and compete with what is available here. Now that my book, Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, has appeared, you can have a print copy or an e-copy. I… Read More
Welcome to UniversalFamily.org
May 21, 2016
Today we need a chorus of voices proclaiming the message of the universal family—the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man—in whatever words truly fit our discoveries and other’s receptivity. Core spiritual truth comprises themes of love, worship, service, doing the will of God, his indwelling spirit, being and becoming like God, faith, and more. The world is waiting for the living spiritual reality of this many-sided message.
Philosophy of religion and the university
May 13, 2016
This the article just published at www.PhilosophyOfReligion.org What can philosophy of religion offer to the modern university? Quick answer: Teach an experiential philosophy of living in truth, beauty, and goodness. A new opportunity on the horizon builds upon one of philosophy’s classical functions, interdisciplinary reflection. Philosophy of religion courses that include units on science and religion, philosophy and religion, religion and the arts, and religious ethics already bless the university. But more can be done to… Read More