current events
- My Morning Edition: Improving and Borrowing from the Ancients: The Centers for Spiritual Living Honor All Genders and Turn Friends into Family - On a recent NPR Morning Edition (April 9, 2024), two stories caught my ear as examples of what the “new thought” teaching/philosophy/religion of which I am a member and minister–The Centers for Spiritual Living–has to offer: No person, place, or gender identity is outside of God. The Vatican’s report this week, tragically entitled “Human Dignity,” […]
- 5 Snouts Up for “Tennessee Rise” by The Tennessee Freedom Singers - After two young Black lawmakers were expelled (and then reinstalled by local voters) by the Tennessee legislature for protesting for gun control, voters all over Tennessee are mobilizing to expand voter registration and engagement in elections. This gorgeous song, Tennessee Rise by The Tennessee Freedom Riders, bolsters the effort. Since I believe that everything that appears […]
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spirit & personal
- Juggling my new nightstand: Housekeeping, American Psychosis & Autobiography of a Yogi - For years I piled five to twenty books on my nightstand, only to ignore the next aspirational read to add yet another book to the pile. Until recently, I have tended to toggle between high-quality fiction, political or historical nonfiction (often biographies), and beach reads (mostly mysteries and science fiction). Spiritual or self-help books, I […]
- One of my influential teachers today: Dr. Dain Heer from Access Consciousness - I speak, I teach, but who speaks to me? who teaches me, that is, in addition to the many New Thought or Science of Mind thinkers who have influenced me (like Ernest Holmes, Joel Goldsmith, Emma Curtis Hopkins, to name but a few) or various transformative teachers that most other New Thought teachers know about […]
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sacramento, california
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