What Do We Know About Religion?

What do we know about other religions, or for that matter the religion we call our own? My father was originally a Congregational Church minister, so I was raised as a Protestant.  I learned a little bit about the Christian religion in childhood Sunday School classes, and I even attended a few Bible Study classes in my very early teens.  After that, however, I was keen to embrace the secular

By |2014-01-24T20:26:13+10:00January 25th, 2014|Peace, Religion|

Heaven Is A Place On Earth

As often happens, my blog this week is inspired by a song (Heaven Is A Place On Earth, written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, and recorded by Belinda Carlisle). When I woke up with the song playing in my head, I thought this could be the subject of this week’s blog.  When I heard it a little while later on the radio, I knew it was confirmation.  I knew

By |2013-12-07T12:50:31+10:00December 7th, 2013|Christianity, God, Islam, Religion, Sex|

The New Spirituality

In Billie Dean’s Animal Whispers newsletter this week, she mentioned that she and a lot of other people were getting the feeling that “something big was getting closer. That it was time to step into our medicine. What Lightworkers and Wayshowers and Pioneers and Earthkeepers and Animal Warriors all came here to do. Be the Light.” I started to contemplate what my role in this might be.  Although I know

By |2013-11-01T20:20:19+10:00November 2nd, 2013|Christianity, God, Love, Mother Earth, Religion, Society, We Are One|

The Parable Of The Happy Plant

Reincarnation is a concept so naturally and intrinsically a part of many religions, that their proponents might wonder how anyone could think anything else. Hinduism and Buddhism are two such religions.  My understanding of their beliefs is that we create everything in our lives through our thoughts, words, and actions.  Our karma is the consequences of these thoughts, words, and actions, and reincarnation is necessary for us to resolve the

By |2013-09-27T18:17:57+10:00September 28th, 2013|Buddhism, Christianity, Religion|