Column: Woman at the Well
May 26 2008 02:22PM
Today is Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor those who have given their lives for our country, in defense of our freedoms. I hope you will pray with me at 3 p.m.
Column: Left Coast Lions' Den
May 26 2008 01:55PM
No one benefits when janitors earn poverty-level wages.
Column: Left Coast Lions' Den
May 26 2008 01:33PM
This may be the most important book on religion and politics in recent memory.
Column: Love, God and Sex
May 24 2008 05:22PM
When did "until death do us part" become "until you no longer meet my needs?"
How To Get Cheap Gas Immediately
Column: God In Real Time
May 23 2008 06:40PM
I tried to figure out a way that this would not work but could not. It's a modern day Boston Tea Party and that was highly successful...
Column: New Houses from Old Bricks
May 23 2008 01:54AM
After wrestling some roots out of my garden, I’m not so sure I want the roots in my life to be so tenacious. Instead, I want the ability to root, to discover God’s nourishment even in unlikely places.
Column: Executive Soul
May 22 2008 05:36PM
What is happening to John McCain’s soul?
Column: wavelength
May 22 2008 02:53AM
Ultimately, you will learn to honor yourself. These lessons are hard won. There was no 8 a.m. class. Your parents and teachers planted the first seeds of self-worth, but you learn by experience. It is all about that great graduate school called life.
Column: Spiritual Psychology
May 21 2008 11:59PM
Lee Iacocca: You may be the right leader at the right time to make the clean energy “Manhattan Project” a reality. There can be no greater legacy!
Column: Our Place in the Universe
May 21 2008 09:49PM
One way we can begin a global heartistic transformation is by building bridges of understanding, by making our common roots and origins, our common values, and purpose a shared experience.
Column: Life at First Sight
May 21 2008 09:44PM
Humanity's heedlessness of God’s call in this day continues to lead down the same awful roads and more often than not, the real victims are the totally helpless and innocent.
5 Ways To Know You Should End It
Column: God In Real Time
May 21 2008 08:19PM
Every relationship has an IT. Maybe it was physical or emotional or intellectual. Whatever it is you have to keep it going. When you lose IT try to...
Column: Of Karma and Dharma
May 21 2008 04:52PM
Interfaith dialogue is a challenge, if not an impossibility, because of the monopolistic claims to God and to truth. A set of guidelines that all religionists canl swear by is the only way to make headway.
Column: Outing the Goddess Within
May 21 2008 03:20AM
Why "be careful what you wish for"? The Universe knows exactly what is right for us! .
Column: Bluebonnet
May 21 2008 01:51AM
Perhaps you feel like you are living a bad dream right now. It has been through looking closely at Jesus’ healings that I’ve been learning how to lift myself out of bad and difficult life experiences.
Obama Isn't Muslim--And Why Would It Matter If He Was?
Column: God Said What?
May 20 2008 03:16PM
The truth is that Sen. Barack Obama is Christian. He isn't Muslim. But that brings up a question: Why would it matter if he was? It shouldn't matter at all. But apparently to some it matters alot.
Column: Interesting Times
May 20 2008 12:02PM
“Mineral make-up rocks”, Oprah says.
Column: Woman at the Well
May 19 2008 02:18PM
Yesterday was Trinity Sunday. It was also the day that United Church of Christ congregations were challenged to begin a sacred conversation on racism in America. I am nothing if not someone who loves a challenge.
Column: Religio-Consumer
May 19 2008 02:08PM
Commentary on Christopher Hitchens’ controversial book, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. The experience was both appealing and alarming.
Column: SpiritLinks
May 18 2008 11:22PM
Apollo 14's moon walker explores the inner frontier of our consciousness as well as our universal connectedness.
Column: PERFECTBALANCELIFE
May 18 2008 03:56PM
No matter how long we are bombard with images and messages that proclaim what is wrong as right, i.e., same sex marriage, let’s not be lulled into thinking something wrong is actually right.
Column: Our Place in the Universe
May 17 2008 04:21PM
Vaclav Havel writes that “democracy depends on citizens feeling responsible for something more than their own little corner of safety . . . It must have citizens who insist on participating in their society”
No Air? Does Jordin Sparks Know My Husband?
Column: God In Real Time
May 16 2008 01:42PM
...I rolled the windows down, cranked up the sound as loud as I could take it, kicked up the bass and looked my daughter and said, "That's me and your dad." She just slid down in her seat, embarrassed "Mom that's just way to much information." I wish I co
No Gods Before Me
Column: A Heretic in Babylon
May 15 2008 01:29PM
Biblical literalists have another problem: turns out the ancient Israelites were monotheists after all.
Column: wavelength
May 15 2008 10:10AM
Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, over the years since I left my hometown, I have met the good witch, the bad witch and those devilish flying monkeys. I have traveled the Yellow Brick Road. Even better, I have found those ruby slippers.
Column: Love, God and Sex
May 14 2008 08:03PM
The transcendent states that sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll provide are mere glimpses of the sustained happiness that comes from finding inner peace.
Column: New Houses from Old Bricks
May 14 2008 05:25PM
In the New Testament, a “neighbor” is defined by need, not by proximity. So how can our church be a "good neighbor" to those who live nearby, who are unhappy with our building plans?
Column: Outing the Goddess Within
May 13 2008 09:08PM
Five men kill themselves every day in Australia. What can we, as their goddess sisters, do?
Column: Bluebonnet
May 13 2008 05:44PM
As I sit here and anticipate the next Indiana Jones saga, I can’t help but sigh and say — in the words of Marian Ravenwood from Indiana’s first movie — “Indiana Jones. I always knew someday you’d come walking back through my door.”
Column: Woman at the Well
May 12 2008 05:04PM
God has a way of working through coincidences. The Spirit of God, like fire, water, air and earth, is everywhere working to inspire our lives with meaning, with presence, with love. We are never alone. We are always guided.
Column: The Baha'i Road
May 12 2008 04:13PM
Parent University laid the foundation for a more exalted goal: getting at-risk youth and their families involved in activities that nurture the spirit.
Column: Left Coast Lions' Den
May 12 2008 12:38PM
I’d like to think that Senators Clinton and McCain would say, “if you won’t vote for Barack Obama because African blood runs in his veins, then we don’t want your vote."
Column: Spiritual Psychology
May 11 2008 10:45AM
Living in the now moment does not free you from responsibility for
planning for the future
Column: Unclutter Your Life
May 10 2008 10:11AM
You get notice that you're the recipient of a massive inheritance. Do you refuse it?
Column: Our Place in the Universe
May 9 2008 01:23PM
I was supposed to go on a vision quest this past week, but life got in the way.
Column: Religio-Consumer
May 9 2008 10:06AM
Perhaps only God can deliver us from these gas prices. Lord knows that I can’t.
A Glass Half Full
Column: A Heretic in Babylon
May 8 2008 06:57PM
A few thoughts for those of us who are more inclined to curse the darkness rather than light a candle.
Column: The Baha'i Road
May 8 2008 06:21PM
Guest column by Druzelle Cederquist for The Baha'i Road:
Like a familiar super-hero, a true champion can emerge in the guise of the neighbor who lives next door; like Zach.
Like a familiar super-hero, a true champion can emerge in the guise of the neighbor who lives next door; like Zach.
Column: wavelength
May 8 2008 12:13PM
Do you remember the first time you heard your recorded voice being played back to you? Your voice sounded foreign; it was not the voice you heard when you spoke aloud. I am like that when it comes to seeing myself in pictures.
Column: Love, God and Sex
May 7 2008 07:17PM
Sex, for the sake of exploration, does not nourish the soul. Soul nourishing sex grows as partners recognize their shared identity as Love itself.
Column: The Baha'i Road
May 7 2008 04:03PM
On April 29, approximately 1,200 delegates from 170 nations will elect individuals to the nine-member Universal House of Justice, the international governing body of the Baha'i Faith. The election is held every five years at the Baha'i World Center in Hai
Column: The Baha'i Road
May 7 2008 03:59PM
What makes the Festival of Ridvan, celebrated April 21 to May 2, the holiest of days for Baha'is? It commemorates the anniversary of Baha’u’llah’s declaration in 1863 that He was the Promised One of all earlier religions.
Column: The Baha'i Road
May 7 2008 03:57PM
After being an atheist my whole life, I decided, as part of a midlife crisis, that there had to be something out there that was better than nothing. Secular humanists say you have to make your own meaning, but when you’re faced with a gigantic universe th
Column: New Houses from Old Bricks
May 7 2008 12:50PM
For people who have undergone life-changing losses, they often talk of a point of acceptance, when they began to ask “Why NOT me?” That response works on self-doubt, too.
Column: Bluebonnet
May 7 2008 11:19AM
There have been times in my life when I would have answered yes. But if our head is in the sand, how will we see the solution that could be right in front of us if we were looking for it?
Without God there is no justice
Column: God Said What?
May 7 2008 10:25AM
Without God there is no justice. That’s short and to the point. And that has become my firm belief during my three years in seminary. But let me explain what I mean and what I do not mean by that statement.
Column: Outing the Goddess Within
May 6 2008 10:37PM
I'm sharing this letter with you today because it's a perfect illustration of how affirmations can be used for "evil".
Column: Writing Down Your Soul
May 6 2008 05:31PM
When divorce happens you have a choice: Turn left and fight for every dollar, possession, and position. Or turn right and dig to find meaning and purpose. One way is exhausting and expensive. The other is full of hope.
Column: Woman at the Well
May 5 2008 09:13PM
I never expected to be a grandma. It never occurred to me that I might be a link in the chain of life, blessed not only with two wonderful sons, but with their children as well.