On this Solstice Day, four days before Christmas morn, let us celebrate the woman who brought Jesus of Nazareth into the world, Mother Mary. Beyond traditional religious iconography, let us find the woman who birthed him, protected him, stood by
We are approaching the winter solstice here in the northern hemisphere, just as our friends in Cape Town and Australia approach the summer solstice. It is interesting to be feeling all those tugs of the heart that have to do
What did the Apostle John say about the first step in his experience of the revelation of Reality? And I turned… —Revelation 1:12 That was the meaning behind Jesus’s gospel. Turn, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. In
A human life inevitably has voids. There are realities that might be present one day but are not now. There can be things we wish for but do not have. Even under the best of circumstances, life is a process,
I have the pleasure of participating today from the west coast of Oahu. And I’ve turned on my original sound, so maybe you can hear the surf in the background. This is a truly wonderful place. All my life, I’ve
Thank you, Keahi (Ewa), for that deep prayer. It is an honor to be here in Tom (Cooper) and Eileen (Flanagan)’s home, where the spirit of this ministry burns bright. Keahi and I have traveled here on Tom’s invitation to
This is the day we take to the streets to dance and sing into the world the happiness of who we are, of you with me, and me with you, and all of us together celebrating the end of agony
I am sorry to report that we lost Shareen Ewing this week. She passed away peacefully on Tuesday. Shareen is deeply loved by many of us. Shareen lived a life of service. From my perspective, she was here in 1975
The word philosophy gets a bad rap. It reminds me of my college professor droning on about Aristotle. But the root of the word is love of knowledge. Philo: love. Sophia: knowledge. And what is knowledge? In our modern world,
Democracy is at issue around the globe. There are major world powers like China and Russia that have dismissed democracy as an inferior form of government. Other countries, like Turkey and Hungary, pay lip service to democracy while autocrats undermine
The word power means different things in different contexts. Scientifically, power is the rate at which work is performed. And work is defined as moving things. Often, when people use the word power, they are speaking about something else—control, and
What I’d like to speak about today is the opportunity that opens to us when the heart makes the creative choice to be centered in the origin of our being. If we name what that is, it can sound like
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