When people are not allowed to express there authentic feelings and needs (what’s alive in them), they disconnect from those feelings and needs and become angry and defensive.

If you look at the history of the Liberty Bell, and of the life of one woman who lived about five feet from where it stood, you find an interesting interplay between the words with which we often speak of liberty and the actions that have resulted in its

Have you ever heard a story so powerful that it reverberated loudly through your interior landscape? Or it stopped you cold in your tracks and made you think – hard – about your life? I did in 1994, and it’s still with me today.

when we are led to believe that sources outside of ourselves will duplicate this inner satisfaction we are being deluded, really.

It's coming up on the feast day for the most maligned saint in Christian history. Old myths about Mary Magdalene aren't enough for some people. New ones need to be invented.

The cost of providing a safety net for at-risk youth is $5,000 per year; the cost of housing a San Quentin inmate is $60,000 per year. Which would you prefer?

Friends’ Peace Teams are helping to rebuild Kenya, step by agonizing step.

Have you ever asked yourself, “Am I willing to stand up for something greater than self -- an ideal, a hope, a vision -- and would I sacrifice my life to ensure those ideals live on for the benefit of others?”

Have you taken the Law of Attraction far enough?

Whatever relationship style you’re choosing, make sure you are friends with whomever you’re going to share your bed.

Some of you remember the back seat of the car, skinny dipping on the beach and love outside the bedroom when the kids weren't home. I remember a lady saying last year she remembered the elevator...

I am pastor of a self-described “Micah 6:8 Church,” which means we center our faith and practice around this essential prophetic call: “What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God.”

How self-acceptance and spiritual grounding enhance leadership.

That’s right, folks. We are offering four more inches of luxurious leg room in our main cabin. Relax your knees; they no longer have to stay under your chin. We are talking the most elongated, spacious inches available in aviation today.

A few radical New Testament scholars are now suggesting that Jesus may not have existed at all. They make a few points, but they don't yet make the case.

It is very, very important that we attend to our innate longing to be ONE with the source of all love and life-the Sacred Source. Such longing is part of our legacy as a human family.

Are you feeling that somehow it’s too late, that there isn’t enough time left to start something or reach a new goal or be whatever it was you wanted to be when you grew up? What if I could prove you’re never too young or too old to achieve something new?

Michael and I spent an hour or so together on a warm afternoon in Silicon Valley. Afterward, I rode the bus home, enjoying the dissipation of a one-beer-buzz, and thinking “if more Presbyterians got together like this, we’d be OK.”

Ministers may not admit our mistakes often and sometimes only when forced into the public eye, but there is an importance and power to admitting when we are wrong.

There is another old phrase that says, “You are what you eat,” if that is the case Americans are eating a “whole lot of fat” because we are the most over weight countries on the global.