17th-century Ethiopian Enlightenment feminist philosopher Zera Yacob speaks to our times from philosophy that he began to clarify while living in a cave for two years when the king was seeking to kill him.
Does your life feel over-medicalized? Here are three ideas to help.
Peacemaking in the gender debate takes a philosophical distinction between (1) our spiritual equality as infinitely loved, profoundly respected children of God and (2) ongoing scientific and ethical inquiries regarding how to respond to children and teens, for example, who say “I’m in the wrong body.”
Watch Mystical Maria: Talk of the spirit of God within is often a way of affirming that we can each have our own personal spiritual experience of God. We do not have to go along with stuffy traditional authority or superficial contemporary enthusiasms—even mine. Scientific Simon: All over the world, religious experience tends to reflect … Read more
Evan: I came across a definition of the gospel that puzzles me because it’s different, but it really attracts me. The gospel—the supreme desire to do the Father’s will coupled with the supreme joy of the faith realization of sonship with God.
Sophia the philosopher and Evan the evangelist discuss the possibility of growth after death. Why is heaven not just one place? The Hebrew Bible speaks of “the heaven of heavens.” Jesus says, “In my Father’s house are many mansions. In Second Corinthians, Paul refers to a man (most probably himself) being caught up in the third heaven. Hmmm. What’s going on?
Why do people reject the father concept of God? Of the various reasons, I consider two here. First, some fathers are terrible parents. Second, generations of sensitive, well-informed, and ethically committed persons have been persuaded that the father concept of God (at least without mention of the motherhood of God) is sexist. To this second concern, I respond with selections from chapters on scientific, philosophical, and spiritual living in my book, Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.
Social service defined: Readiness to do good, if we can, to anyone with any kind of need.
It is common for love to be preferential in a way that is not based on our deeper equality in the brotherhood of man, the siblinghood of humankind. But everything changes when we recognize the spiritual core of what it means to be a human being . . .
A praise phrase for each day of the week reminds you to align with the new way of living: worshipful, scientific, philosophical, sensitive to beauty in nature, artistic, morally active, and righteous.