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January 2020

January 26, 2020

What if God Spoke to You Today?

I heard the voice of God in 1993. At least, I believe it was God....

November 2019

November 20, 2019

Are we worshipping Jesus when we should be following Christ?

I read a lot of religion and spirituality books and it’s rare to come across...

November 05, 2019

The 10-Step “Loving God” Meditation

A funny thing happened on the way to publishing this column. I discovered that the...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

When God Talks, Do You Listen?

“Let us be silent, and we may hear the whispers of the Gods.” ~Ralph Waldo...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

The Woman Who Can Feel God in Her Bones

Is God a continual presence in your life? Or does the sense of the Divine...

May 2019

May 04, 2019

The Mystics on Finding God Within Yourself

At some point in time, have you wondered if God really exists? You may have asked...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

6 Lies We Believe About God

Do you remember the book The Shack? It was the story of a man’s journey...

April 03, 2019

This may be the best description of God (ever)

If someone asked you “Who is God?” or “What is God?” how would you answer...

February 2019

February 06, 2019

How to Make an Important Decision (advice from Saint Ignatius)

Some problems can't be solved by more thinking. ~Sam Harris Where do you turn when...

November 2018

November 07, 2018

Finding God without Church (Spirituality for the Rest of Us)

Did you know that one of America’s greatest philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, was once a...

October 2018

October 17, 2018

3 Daily Prayers for the Spiritual but not Religious

Do you believe in a force that is greater than yourself? If yes, how do...

July 2018

July 05, 2018

It’s time to take Mark Twain back from the atheists

When this story first ran almost 4 years ago, it became a bit controversial--let's just...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

Do you believe in the “God of the Bible”—or another God?

There’s a Pew Research Center study that came out earlier this year that showed an...

May 2018

May 09, 2018

The Case Against Gurus

Why do you need a guru? If you fall down, then pick yourself up and...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

Finding God in Las Vegas.

I first wrote a version of this story after 9/11, rewrote it after the Newtown...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

Did God stop talking? Or did we stop listening?

From the story of Moses to passages found in the gospels of John and Luke,...

September 07, 2017

A Definition of God: For the Spiritual but Not Religious

All my life I’ve experienced a sense of wonder that has to do with something...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

The Connection Between Ghosts, UFOs and God

People who are not religious are twice as likely to believe in ghosts and UFOs...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Finding God in Silence: Centering Prayer in 5 Easy Steps

In silence, we come to know God. The evocative quote above comes from Benjamin Riggs...

April 2017

April 06, 2017

Was the Best Spirituality Book of All Time Written 120 Years Ago?

Every few years there’s a spirituality book that captures the imagination of the public and...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Revealing the mystical secrets of Kabbalah.

Kabbalah is the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible. It has been...

February 15, 2017

Is the key to knowing God, knowing yourself?

Did you read my last story about the hidden nature of God? I wrote about...

February 09, 2017

Does God have a secret hiding place?

Every now and then, we can have the feeling that God is missing in action....

February 04, 2017

Walt Whitman on God, America and Life.

In my neck of the woods, the name Walt Whitman is associated with a bridge...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

The Secret of Life according to the Bhagavad Gita.

The Bhagavad Gita is an ancient Hindu spiritual text whose name means “the song of...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

What Thomas Edison sees when he sees God.

How do you picture God? I was raised in a Catholic family and attended weekly...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

“Jesus is just like you and me”: the radical message of R. W. Emerson.

Imagine graduating from one of the top religious schools in the country, entering the ministry,...

June 08, 2016

My wise 86-year old friend just passed away. Here are his final words.

I first met John Gray in early-2014. He was a reader of this column and...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Norman Vincent Peale’s 7 life-changing words—and why some call them blasphemous.

Norman Vincent Peale may be best known as the author of The Power of Positive...

May 18, 2016

NJ family wins $430 million Powerball lottery—claims “Divine Intervention”.

There was a recent story in the NY Times about a family in my home...