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Understanding Belief

The fact that religious systems include a substantial element of magic thinking and mythology does not disprove their usefulness in a difficult world. Religious belief has been common in all cultures since the beginning of human time because, from an evolutionary point of view, it has demonstrable survival value. At all times of history, human life has been a dangerous and fearful proposition. Religion has often functioned well to abate fear, instill intention, promote courage, and protect from despair.

Found in: /weblog/understanding-belief


Existence After Death

John S. Garrison’s Shakespeare and the Afterlife is, on the surface, a study of the views and devices used by William Shakespeare in his plays and poetry in treating the nature and activities of existence after death. More deeply, though, this book is a meditation on the variety of contemporary views about existence after death….

Found in: /reviews/existence-after-death


A poem by Abraham Chalfi

I’ll Dress You in Silken Wings
by Abraham Chalfi

I’ll dress you in silken wings
Coloured perhaps bird-green
And perhaps a legendary crimson
And you’d be so beautiful
Children of man….

Found in: /weblog/abraham-chalfi


A Spiritual Journey

Kristin Loken attends Shepherdstown Monthly Meeting in West Virginia. From her little cottage beside the Potomac River in West Virginia, Kristin writes and works locally on problems she sees as critical to a just and sustainable world. … A few years ago, someone asked…

Found in: /weblog/my-spiritual-journey


Christian Universalisms

Just as there are many “Christianities,” there are many forms of “Christian Universalism.” … I seek to follow the faith and practice of the historical Jesus, regardless of how later belief systems and their enforcers may have reinterpreted his ministry to…

Found in: /weblog/christian-universalisms