Jesus taught us to pray with words and Christians have developed various forms of social, public, and liturgical prayer, often centering...

If God became flesh, incarnated in the material world, then resurrection is an indisputable outcome – nothing divine can ever die....

The process of creating art is valuable and generative. In childhood, we were free and courageous, we embraced our creative nature. While...

The spiritual journey is a search that ends in love, the foundation of everything. It is a quest for the “Holy Grail.” Once we hear the...

A necessary part of the process of transformation is falling from innocence. “Innocent” comes from the Latin “in nocere” meaning “not...

“God is love” (1 John 4:16) is the single most important verse in the Bible, and one of the loveliest books in the Hebrew Bible is the...

The day we were born, in our original innocence like Adam and Eve in Eden, we lived in an unconscious state of full connection with the...

Jesus’ parables belong to “mashal”, the Jewish extension of sacred poetry, stories, proverbs, riddles, and dialogues through which wisdom...

The misunderstanding of purity and its necessity consequently led to the misunderstanding of passion and its necessity. Passion has been...

Paul’s letter to the Philippians describes how we need to work with our turbulent, resentful, and judgmental mind. Although he wrote the...

Our common understanding is that Jesus died for our sins to pay a debt. This substitutionary atonement theory—the idea that God needs a...

Paul used “flesh” as a negative term, not for the body itself as is commonly understood, but for anything personal, short-lived, and...

Spirituality has two paths. The more popular and accepted path of return, which is religious, offers a rational and orderly world of...

In his letter to the Philippians Paul offered a puzzling mandate: “Let the same mind be in you that was in Jesus Christ” (2:5)....

Saint Thomas Aquinas said there are two books of scripture; the first is the natural world that has existed since creation 14 billion...

Spiritual truth is paradoxical: We truly believe that God is Three Persons in One, that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine, that...

We are the image and likeness of God, but without God, we are absolutely nothing. In being God’s image, we owe no fidelity to anything...

The belief that God is separate and distant has torn our awareness and us apart. It has harmed our relationship with others, food,...

Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that amazingly illustrates the interconnectedness of the nature of both spiritual and...

It is in times of literal or figurative darkness that new possibilities are unveiled. We come from the darkness and return to it. There...