The Recovery of our Oneness In 1993, Beatrice Bruteau (1930-2014) authored Radical Optimism: Rooting Ourselves in Reality , where she suggested that "by engaging in contemplative practices, we come to know ourselves more authentically, recenter spiritual values in our lives, and find more optimism about the world." Brutreau's book The Grand Option, The: Personal Transformation and a New Creation was published July 11, 2001. Written at the turn of the millennium, the book s

In " America at a Crossroads ," a December 19, 2023, PBS NewsHour special, Judy Woodruff explored what was driving the immense division among people, distrust in our government, broad dissatisfaction with the political system, how we got there, and what everyday Americans thought about the state of the country. Before the 2024 election, I had a blog post about Finding Common Ground , where I recounted my positive experience in my 2021 participation in Living Room Conversatio

Earthbound: God at the Intersection of Climate and Justice is an invitation to live sustainably, rooted in our faith and our shared call...

What should we be doing in the face of the rise of a new sort of intelligence? Can there be such a thing as an ethical AI? And in what...

This Image was generated by ChatGPT and has errors in only showing 6 Ages (missing the Ocean Age 1,500-1,800 BCE and using a wrong image for the Industrial Age). It is shown here to illustrate both the potential power and problems with AI technology, which has accelerated since Sachs' 2020 book! Jeffrey D. Sachs' 2020 book T he Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions grew out of three lectures given in 2017 at the Oxford School of Geography and Environ

Earth - " The Blue Marble " is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en...

Wikipedia defines " religious naturalism " as a "framework for religious orientation in which a naturalist worldview is used to respond...

Some are dealing with the current crisis and chaos in American politics by taking a break from the media. I choose the opposite approach by taking a deeper dive and watching YouTube videos of PBS Newshour, Washington Week PBS and The Ezra Klein Show to try to make sense of the unfamiliar world we are now finding ourselves living in. Ezra Klein's March 14, 2025, very engaging and smart interview of Gillian Tett, " Is the President ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?" o

On March 12, 2025, a Creation Justice Webinar: America in Search of a Soul was co-hosted by the Rev. Dr. Brooks Berndt , who serves as the Minister of Environmental Justice for the United Church of Christ, and the Rev. Michael Malcom, who serves as the Executive Director for Alabama Interfaith Power & Light and the People's Justice Council. The webinar drew its title from a 1976 sermon entitled “America in Search of a Soul,” by Howard Thurman, who prophetically understood t

I understand the internet and ChatGPT as amazing expressions of the noosphere - the notion of an emerging global mind. ChatGPT is able to...

This past fall, 2023 I took an OLLI course called Unraveling the Mysteries of Consciousness. John Kalb, the instructor defined...

Awakening of Humanity: The Dawning of a New Earth and Unitive Age - Holomovement As the Unitive Narrative is a new E-book by Drs. Kurt...

In Charles Darwin's 1859 book On The Origin of Species, he poetically says "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several...

Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro formed the One River Foundation with Frank Levy as "a global community of spiritually independent seekers,...

Wayne Teasdale, in chapter 7 of his 2001 book The Mystic Heart, writes about embodying and empowering the prophetic voice for justice,...

This blog aggregates and draws attention to examples of how various faith traditions see the climate crisis as an important moral issue....

Original art by Rick Bonetti from a photo of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In Andrew M. Davis and Phiip Clayton's 2018 book how I found GOD...

From the organization name Interfaith Alliance , one might infer that its purpose is to promote multi-faith dialogue, but its mission specifically is to "celebrate religious freedom by championing individual rights, promoting policies that protect both religion and democracy and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism." While Interfaith Alliance believes that "religious and cultural diversity is essential in building vibrant communities. they also stress that "no one h

Bruce Epperly, author of Process Theology and the Revival We Need (March 29, 2023) sees ‘revival’ as "the emergence of a deep and...

"My conversation with Greta Thunberg brought together scientists and spiritual thinkers to take a fresh look at the environmental crisis...