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2016-02-12T14:31:39-05:00

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How To Navigate The Lonely Pitfalls Of Youth.

Last updated on: February 12, 2016 at 2:31 pm By Gerard A. Murphy

I’m at the library working on my book. In walks a teenage friend of mine. On seeing me, she immediately pulls a book off the shelves and announces, “You need to read this.” So the following week, on her recommendation, I read Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. I haven’t read a teenage novel since I was . . . a teenager; but the premise alone on this one hooked me: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package... Read more

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2016-02-15T20:15:42-05:00

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Appreciating the Eternal Love of the Guardian Angels Inside Our Dogs

Last updated on: February 15, 2016 at 8:15 pm By Belinda Womack

I’ve been fortunate to work with the Angelic realms for over 25 years and often I am asked the question, do Angels live on Earth or are they only found in Heaven? And what about guardian Angels? Are these all-protective helpers that are assigned to us for an entire lifetime, always invisible to the human eye? Not if we are blessed to belong to a dog Angel! Proof that canines are guardian Angels comes from their amazing ability to love... Read more

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2016-02-14T21:38:41-05:00

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From Thrillness To Stillness.

Last updated on: February 14, 2016 at 9:38 pm By Gerard A. Murphy

Life for so many is a perpetual whirligig of sensory excitement and adventure; of constant motion, momentum, and mobility as one squeezes all that one can out of the world’s cornucopia of delights. While there is something to be said for St. Irenaeus of Lyon’s “The Glory of God is a human being fully alive”, I believe that the Essence of God Consciousness is to be found in silence and stillness: in a word – meditation. I took my first serious plunge into... Read more

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2016-02-15T20:14:31-05:00

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Spirituality and Materiality in the Digital Age

Last updated on: February 15, 2016 at 8:14 pm By Sable Manson

How many times have we heard that science is based on evidence while faith is based on belief? Even if the speaker is not speaking pejoratively of faith, implicit in this idea is that science is based in the empirical material world and that faith is something different. Science and faith have had a contentious history, however, many point to the Age of Enlightenment in Europe as contributing significantly to the strict differentiation we place on the two concepts. The... Read more

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2016-02-14T21:37:07-05:00

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How Is your Haal? How Is your Heart this Valentine’s Day?

Last updated on: February 14, 2016 at 9:37 pm By Kathleen Gibbons Schuck

How is your haal (the transient state of your heart)? How is your heart this Valentine’s Day? Does anyone remember the “Reach Out and Touch” television ads of the 70s and 80s? Each presented a different scenario: a homesick college student; families relishing new friends they met on vacation; a woman stops short when she hears her friend say, “Stop twirling your hair.” Even in those days, long before wireless technology and smart phones, the message came through loud and... Read more

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2016-02-12T14:36:58-05:00

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Love Is Living With An Open Heart

Last updated on: February 12, 2016 at 2:36 pm By Robert Atkinson

One yet to know love is as a flower yet to bloom. Let the mysteries of love lead you on. Somewhere is a love everlasting and unconditional. Such a love sees with the inner eye, and feels with a heart of compassion. Love’s ascent is steep and treacherous. Expect nothing of love except what you give, for love grows not through supremacy but through equality. The servant of this love recognizes in the beloved a sign of the Divine. At... Read more

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2016-02-12T14:50:34-05:00

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The Sacred Trinity at the Heart of the Self

Last updated on: February 12, 2016 at 2:50 pm By Byron Belitsos

I have concluded after four decades of study that the purported celestial authors of the Urantia Revelation performed a colossal feat: they architected a “co-creative” revelatory scripture for the postmodern world that unifies science, philosophy, history, and religion. Among the many vital ideas contained in the Urantia Revelation, and the one that has always stood out for me, is its description of the soul’s nature, origin, evolution, and destiny. In particular, The Urantia Book teaches that a “sacred trinity” (a... Read more

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2016-02-11T11:20:51-05:00

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What is most sacred to you? A powerful spiritual question

Last updated on: February 11, 2016 at 11:20 am By Sarah Lawrence Hinson

Questions can be a powerful focus for our minds, bodies and spirits. Sarah suggests this power question to you - add it to your meditation, prayer or journaling practice. Love to hear the outcome of your internal inquiry. Power questions are wonderful for clearing away our biases and getting to the spiritual truth of the matter. Read more

2016-02-10T12:43:33-05:00

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Is “Shame on You” the Graffiti Chiseled in the Backyard of Your Soul?

Last updated on: February 10, 2016 at 12:43 pm By Kathleen Gibbons Schuck

Why not give up shame this Lent? Today is Ash Wednesday. Perhaps like me “Shame on You” is the graffiti chiseled in the backyard of your soul. Do you prefer the anonymity of wearing a paper bag on your head? Consider taking it off for the next forty days. This is my story of shame resilience…how a good catholic girl became a good catholic priest! A Daughter’s Question: Why? It begins four years ago in January of 2012. My daughter completes her first... Read more

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2016-02-09T21:09:33-05:00

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Are You Taking Your Cue From Twitter’s Lent Tracker This Year?

Last updated on: February 9, 2016 at 9:09 pm By Gerard A. Murphy

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent, a penitential period of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving for Christians worldwide. Fasting also happens to be one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and is practiced faithfully by Muslims during Ramadan – a period lasting up to 354 days a year. So what’s the deal with fasting? Does it make us holier, thinner, or grumpier? Possibly all three depending on our disposition. However, I believe the key to its sanctifying virtue is, not so... Read more

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