One Saturday afternoon when my daughter was not quite three I strapped her into the child seat on my bike and we rode down to our neighborhood ice cream parlor. We bought a double scoop of Mint Chocolate Chip in a cup and shared it. When there was just one spoonful left I scooped it [...]

I once watched a television show about the Holocaust involving a panel discussion of three people, one of whom was an elderly Jewish rabbi. When the moderator asked him the question, “How do you reconcile the notion of a loving God with something as horrible as the holocaust?” the rabbi responded, “God was napping.”
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It’s common for us to refer to things related to God as spiritual—of the spirit—the unseen, underlying creative force of the universe. But when we do this we limit ourselves and confuse our “spiritual” thinking.
It’s commonly accepted that God is omnipresent—God exists everywhere at all times. It’s also commonly accepted that there exist many realms, [...]

Meaning. It seems that people are seeking it more these days than ever before. We’ve all tried settling for less but somehow its lack just leaves us empty. Oh, most of us are good at pretending, many for lifetimes. But sooner or later the desire for meaning inevitably begins to pester us….
In the midst of [...]

Take a few seconds to answer these two simple questions: Do you believe that God is perfect? Do you believe that God is omnipresent (everywhere)? If your answers to these two questions is “yes” then by definition, everything is perfect. Do you believe this?
Imagine the universe prior to the Earth’s formation 4.5 billion years ago. [...]

The vast majority of people in the world automatically and unquestioningly inherit their religion from their parents.For something as important as religion, why are we so reluctant to shop around?
One Saturday morning I was sipping my coffee and reading the newspaper when the doorbell rang. This was an unusual occurrence as we lived in a [...]

Bees and I go way back. When I was one I was sitting in my high chair on our screened porch lost in the innocent oblivion of infancy when suddenly a terrible, sharp pain pierced my right forearm. The most traumatic experience of my short life (other than birth), it instantly produced a gusher of [...]