Aspiring to become a minister of mercy, I approach the topic of gender and The Urantia Book with profound respect for those with whom I disagree. Hoping to reduce confusion and to enhance clarity, I offer these thoughts. I recommend that you watch the 9:26 video presentation or listen to the audio …
Social, economic, and political
Watch the 11:48 video or listen to the audio file. All my life, I have cared intensely about debates on social, economic, and political questions. In high school I identified as conservative or libertarian; in college, I moved to the left and identified for a while with Marxism. Since finding The …
Truth, comprehension, liberty
Vincent Van Gogh, Sower at Sunset Before he turned to painting, Vincent Van Gogh was an intense, passionate, and frustrated evangelist. This blogpost is for those of us who have been there and are beginning to exit that frustration. Watch the 13:41 video or listen to the podcast …
Let’s become healers
A member of a first responder team after an earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal Look at the helpers As I was preparing notes for this talk, one item stood out from what I had read about responding to emergencies and disasters: Look at the helpers. When things are chaotic and people are …
On-ramps to love
This entire website is dedicated to projects. But any virtue, taken to extremes, may become a vice. In this case, I call it projectitis--pursuing projects with the blinders on and getting weighed down by them. In order to cure my projectitis, I’m creating . . . a new project . . . on love. We know …
Let’s reveal Jesus this year
"The world needs to see Jesus living anew in the lives of spirit-born mortals who effectively reveal the Master to all men" (195:10.16/2082.2) What astonishing implications! We can live so that Jesus can live anew in us. And we can grow to reveal him effectively to everyone! Now there's a resolution …
