Discover the profound teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967.
What can a Buddhist monk teach us about Christ?
Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
I know you’re hurting. I know you’re struggling with something, some sort of problem, something that doesn’t look like it’s going to ever work out. You keep wondering when it’s going to end, and if it’s going to take you down once and for all. Well, I have good news. Everything’s gonna be alright.
Parable of the Cast Iron Skillet
In the midst of your seasoning, there are many things you will not be able to control. But what you can control are your choices. YOU choose how you move through the process. YOU choose the attitude you have in the midst of it. YOU choose who you are being in relationship to it. Choose wisely and from love. Eventually the heat will die down.
September 11: Can we make it a “Day of Forgiveness?”
As corny as it sounds, what the world really does need now is LOVE. And it starts with FORGIVENESS.
A Multifaith Conversation (Part 1)
I proudly introduce this 5-part video series: Beyond The Headlines: An Interfaith Dialogue at American University. I cannot claim credit for its production in any way, but I love the idea of bringing together a Jew, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian and a Unitarian. The objective is simple: looking for a common ground.
In Part 1: A Jewish woman explains the traditional holiday of Yom Kippur, and a comparison between Yom Kippur and the Muslim celebration of Ramadan as a time of fasting and introspection, and whether fasting is practiced in the Hindu faith.
If I Can Help Somebody . . .
As much as I love this project and what it’s doing in the world, I actually don’t get a lot of feedback on it. So when I ran across these remars from “Taimour” on a bulletin board at Stresscenter.org . . . well, it meant a whole lot to me. Check it out!
“Message” is a Worldwide Phenomenon
I want to thank each of you reading this for participating in this project, and for sharing it with those you love. There have been times when I’ve hesitated about moving forward with this project, mostly out of fear. But through it all, I’ve been able to quiet the fearful noises and listen to the quiet voice of The Author, which has given me that legendary “blessed assurance.” The more I watch this project touch lives, the more grateful I am to be its messenger.
HANDLED
If it seems like the past seven days in the world have been more troubled than usual, it’s probably because it has been. Just read, look at or listen to the news media. Nuclear weapons testing in Iran. Earthquakes in the Philippines and in Indonesia. A tsumami in the American Samoan Islands. A steady increase in reported cases of both […]
Lessons from Enoch: A life with God before The Bible
I love it when God lets me know that I’m hearing His voice and following His leading. Don’t you? Take this week, for instance. I was in our church’s regular mid-week Bible study when someone asked the question, “Why were certain books omitted from the King James version of the Bible?” I answered, “Just each person who authored books of the […]
ONE RACE: DNA says humans are 99.9 percent the same
“The genetic changes responsible for our varying shades of color are miniscule. Just a handful of mutations out of the 3 billion letters that make up the human genome form the basis for our entire concept of race.” It’s time we start counting the ways we’re alike instead of the ways we’re different . . .
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