Spirituality at its core is an earnest seeking after God, a burning desire to immerse oneself in the Divine, to be one with the Ground of...

An exploding volcano rains hellfire and wreaks havoc on villagers. An earthquake swallows an entire city. Insurance companies call them...

As far back as I can remember, I have on occasion been very aware of the divine presence. I just knew God existed. And, because I was...

Imagine a big old house with a huge, dank dirt floor basement filled with stuff. Nobody’s been down there for decades, maybe centuries....

Hope. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.  (Proverbs 13:12) I’m told that a human being...

Jesus was (and is) never abusive, coercive, manipulative, dishonest, or condoning of violence. Conversely, he was (and is) characterized...

My son Elliott committed suicide when he was in high school. After his death, church people told me he was in hell because of the way he...

I’m not an economist and I, like most of us in the occident, enjoy an historically unprecedented standard of living, yet, even from my...

Rejection is a form of loss, suffering, bereavement. It may be external, as when someone doesn’t like the music you composed, the poem...

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 – the Lunar New Year, AKA, Chinese New Year, the year of the snake. Snakes get a bad rap, perhaps because of...

The behavioral activation system (BAS) is a neurobehavioral system that motivates people to seek rewards and achieve goals. It's also...

Mt. 13:3b “Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Other...

Radiant purposes of slowly bursting understandings Allow room for the unveiling of violet spinning mysteria That reaches to the place...

We all want to belong. We all want to be loved. We all want to be accepted. It feels good to be welcomed into any group, but especially...

Things cruise along, business as usual, until there’s a paradigm-shifting breakthrough. It was assumed humans could not fly until the...

Who am I? It is vital for us to discover our authentic selves. We all emerge into adulthood wearing layers of personae. They are...

Amongst some fundamentalist Christian nationalists there is an extremely toxic idea masquerading as “Biblical marriage.”   I recently...

Three times in Romans 1 Paul refers to God giving the unrepentant over:   24  Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their...

It seems like no one listens anymore. Talking heads yell over one another on television, politicians utter absurd outlandish lies that...

The word “professional” has shifted in meaning in the last few decades. It traditionally referred to anyone whose job required an...