One of the most important questions you can ever address is, “Who am I?” You might think of identity as an adolescent issue. But, while adolescence might have been the last time you paid any serious attention to your identity, it has continued to evolve since then and where it has settled has crucial implications for both your psychological and spiritual wellbeing.
Read MoreOne day a spiritual teacher asked his disciples why God made humans. One of them answered almost immediately, “That, teacher, is easy. So we can pray.” After a brief silence, the teacher asked another question: “Why, then did God make angels?” The same young man tried again, “Perhaps so that they also could pray.”…
Read MoreSocrates famously declared that the unexamined life was not worth living. Asked to sum up the wisdom of Ancient Greece, he replied, “Know yourself.” This affirmation of the importance of knowing oneself was unchallenged by the church Fathers and Mothers, although from the earliest days of church history, knowing of self and God began to be linked.
Read MoreI wonder if you, like me, recognize the crucial importance of wisdom at this point in your life and our life together on earth.
Recently, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries signed what they called “A Warning to Humanity” that was published in the Oxford University Press journal, Bioscience.
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