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What Would Your Quaker Name Be?

Last updated on: May 26, 2024 at 8:20 am By Gregory T. Smith

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In Outlander Season Eight (now in production) we will meet Quaker characters, named after Christian virtues. What would your Quaker name be? If you’re an Outlander fan like me, you might be sad to learn that Season eight will be the final chapter of this great TV series. Set for release in late 2024 or 2025, the final season will be based on Diana Gabaldon’s latest novel in the Outlander series, Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone. Though... Read more

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From Grief to Growth: Honoring Heroes on Memorial Day

Last updated on: May 26, 2024 at 8:35 am By Gregory T. Smith

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In the US, Memorial Day is a time to honor the past, but not get stuck in it. It’s a time to grieve, reconcile, and move toward the future. This Monday is Memorial Day in the US. It’s a day with a long history of honoring the nation’s heroic dead. The holiday began as Decoration Day at the end of May 1868. In the wake of the Civil War, the United States declared a day for decorating the graves of... Read more

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Jesus, Lao Tzu, and Bruce Lee: “Be Water, My Friend”

Last updated on: May 19, 2024 at 8:27 am By Gregory T. Smith

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Are you involved in sports, business, or other forms of competition? Jesus and Lao Tzu show how you can win by non-competition. The famous martial artist Bruce Lee, actor onscreen and instructor offscreen, knew something about winning. He did so with ease, but not by forcing his way like an iron weapon. Instead, he encouraged people to become like water. “Empty your mind,” he said. “Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup.... Read more

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Does God Change God’s Mind? The Bible Appears Confused…

Last updated on: May 18, 2024 at 7:48 pm By Gregory T. Smith

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We like to think that God doesn’t change. Malachi has God saying, “I the Lord do not change.” This sounds good—until God changes God’s Mind. It’s comforting to believe that God is the same, yesterday today, and forever. When the world feels unstable, it helps to believe in the One Supreme Being who’s in charge of it all. We love to sing hymns about God’s unchangeable nature because we enjoy the sense of permanence and stability. But what happens when... Read more

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Neurotheology: Is Spiritual Experience All in Your Head?

Last updated on: May 19, 2024 at 4:12 pm By Gregory T. Smith

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Ever had a spiritual experience that upon reflection, you wondered if it was all in your head? Neurotheology attempts to answer this. In a May 14, 2024 edition of NPR’s On Point, journalist Meghna Chakrabarti interviews Dr. Andrew Newberg. As Director of Research at Marcus Institute of Integrative Health and a professor at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital, Newberg studies human brain activity during spiritual encounters. In the interview, Newberg discusses brainwave patterns collected from people across the religious spectrum,... Read more

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2024-05-11T07:49:24-08:00

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Jesus and Lao Tzu Talk About Eternal Life

Last updated on: May 11, 2024 at 7:49 am By Gregory T. Smith

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What does Jesus mean when he talks about eternal life? The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu provides a clue. Both claim that we are immortals. For Lao Tzu, when a person lets go and becomes completely fulfilled, they come into alignment with the infinite, eternal Tao. Their life takes on an unlimited quality, not a limitless quantity. This kind of never-ending life doesn’t fall prey to a false assumption that human beings can escape death. Lao Tzu’s immortality means more than... Read more

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Drowning in Religion? Truth Walks Out to Meet You

Last updated on: May 13, 2024 at 8:02 am By Gregory T. Smith

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Religion is meant to support you like the sea floating a boat. But sometimes religion gets stormy. Is there a way to survive the storm? Jesus is a disrupter. He overturns the tables of ideology, refuses to participate in empire, and dismantles the dominant worldview. By contrast, religion as usual offers easy answers, a status quo, and a patriotic piety that makes people easy to control. No wonder so many people take the wide and easy path of religion, instead... Read more

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What if Jesus and Lao Tzu Celebrated Mother’s Day?

Last updated on: April 27, 2024 at 5:29 pm By Gregory T. Smith

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What if Jesus and Lao Tzu celebrated Mother’s Day? They would agree that universal and cosmic wisdom is best represented by motherly love. Jesus, the embodiment of wisdom and incarnation of the Tao, said, “How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings.” He utilized mother imagery to depict God’s gathering and protecting love. Bending traditional gender roles, the apostle Paul echoed Jesus’s feminine love, saying, “We were gentle among... Read more

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6 Reasons Homeless Shelters Won’t Solve the Problem

Last updated on: May 7, 2024 at 6:09 pm By Gregory T. Smith

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Cities like Grants Pass, Oregon are making unsheltered homelessness illegal. But here are six reasons why shelters won’t solve the problem. In my last article, “6 Things You Can Do at Home That are Illegal if You’re Homeless,” I discuss the Supreme Court case, Grants Pass versus Johnson. That city has targeted public camping, among other behaviors of unsheltered individuals, in an attempt to criminalize homelessness itself. In a New York Times interview, Abbie VanSickle, correspondent to the Supreme Court... Read more

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6 Things You Do at Home That are Illegal if You’re Homeless

Last updated on: May 9, 2024 at 7:23 pm By Gregory T. Smith

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Should homelessness be made illegal? Cities everywhere are cracking down. Here are six bad reasons why towns are jailing unhoused people. An April 19 New York Times interview with Supreme Court correspondent Abbie VanSickle says that cities across the US are cracking down on homelessness. Working as I do with an unsheltered population in Washington State, this comes as no shock to me. Our homeless population has surged, prompting a backlash from municipalities. The New York Times sheds light on... Read more

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