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The recent attack on the global city of Mumbai (Bombay) in India illustrates how as the world’s population expands, the land does not match ...

As I have said elsewhere here, God works in his own time and in his own way. I have spent many hours reading and researching the concept of ...

It is Thanksgiving this week in the United States. It is without a doubt a totally secular holiday centered on the family. Very little di...

I speak perhaps of a personal epiphany and it has to do with the Book of Revelation/Apocalypse. If you have read this blog in bits and pie...

There is an artist, who is a bit off the wall from what I hear, but I am absolutely moved by the artist Rufus Wainwright and the song he s...

What does God look like? Does he have to look like anything? Does man’s visual ability apply passed death when the spiirit separates from ...

- What if simple prayer departs? (with the death of the whales) What if - the largest creatures left in the sea, in the sea disappea...

There is an awful lot of friction in California and Utah over Proposition 8 which was a referendum on the concept of Gay Marriage. I pe...

I go back to a discussion I had some years ago about Christianity in it’s alphabet soup days and the sacred text “Acts of the Apostles” w...

- I think that a certain theme has developed in this blog as time goes on, as I examine or question all the many aspects of the Christian ...

In one of those rare moments of coincidence, I ran into an old copy of U.S. News and World Report April 1996 in the laundry room of my apa...

The unity of all things diverse ( in the universe of things too great to count ) is God

Halloween is a secular holiday – corruption of original language Hallowed Eve of a holy day - All Saints day - November 1. I see that that ...

"Aura of Four Trees and other Life in a Garden" - an inspirational drawing (#9) Perhaps you can print it out and use it as a fo...

I am of course fascinated by the prophets of the Old, New and Arabic Testaments. They tend to deal almost exclusively in the realm of the S...

- OMG Are you a Christian? What kind of a Christian? How about a Wal-Mart Christian? I mentioned earlier in one of my articles about how ...

A rather unknown form of folk art from primarily Mexico is the Retablo. Originally, this art form was a primitive, religious icon painte...

In the back stair unofficial R.C. story telling culture of nuns in my youth, the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe was one of those strange bu...

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, f...

- Jesus said, “Show me the stone that the builders rejected. That is the cornerstone.” Gospel of Thomas 66, Psalm 118:22-24, Matthew 21:4...

- I have, in my mind and in some other spots, framed this naught decade and the decade before as an age of chronic luxury. Goodbye age o...

Of some of the direct comments I get as e-mail from an occasional reader – some are not quite sure what I am trying to say. I do try to sa...

There is a thing called karma in eastern philosophy and religion. It speaks of your energy being sent out into the universe and following a ...

- I ran into this on the Internet. It speaks volumes to me about my search to say or find what I think are both the stumbling blocks and po...

H ow joyful to look upon the awakened And to keep company with the wise. Follow then the shining ones, The wise, the awakened, the lov...