Is it okay to tell God what we most desire? Does God want us to simply sit back and accept whatever the Universe dishes out? Or do we have a pathway to God that may be used to bring about...
In the United States this is Thanksgiving Day. Yet while millions seek a place in their hearts from which to express gratitude, the world continues to be filled with terror and uncertainty. The horrific terrorist attack in Mumbai tells our...
Is it loving to announce and reveal the unloving behaviors of others? Should we never offer an observation, much less a criticism, of those who do things with which we disagree? Yesterday I asked this question, and drew quite a...
Is it unloving to observe and comment upon the unloving behaviors of others? Does love for the despot allow the despot's behavior to continue unnoticed? This is not a small question as the world slowly migrates to a new understanding...
I said yesterday that I believe what the world needs is a new idea about God. Some of our present ideas are hurting us very badly. They can cause wars. They can produce violence. I will explore more of this...
I have been convinced by a Christian minister that what we need in this world is a new idea about God. I want to thank Rev. Mark Holick of Wichita for that. You may recall that yesterday in this space...
What is "consciousness"? Is there such a thing as "higher" consciousness? Does it matter? There are a lot of questions that swirl around in the Consciousness Movement, and these are just a few. A couple of says ago a person...
What is the nature of human energy...and can it affect us in a negative way? Do we have to protect ourselves from the incoming energy of others who can "drain" us? Got a note yesterday from "Sara E." on this...
Does simply observing that something is true mean that we are creating it as being more true? Can a thing be more true than "true"? Wow, what a lively discussion we've had here on the question of whether talking about...
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money. Have you seen this, now going around the Internet? A billion is a difficult...
When you see a train coming, should you say anything about it? When the weather forecast calls for a blizzard to leave 3-feet of snow on the mountain pass, should you warn those in your family preparing to travel? Yesterday...
As comedianne Joan Rivers says, "Can we talk?" We are facing an extraordinary and uncertain future, and now is the time for all of us to enter into new discussions about old things looked at in new ways. That is...
I learned something new the other day. I learned about a spiritual principle called pikkuah nefesh. It is from the Jewish tradition, and the principles states, roughly: "To save a life, you can violate almost any commandment." That interpretation comes...
Yesterday a person who posted in the Comments Section here without a name indicated that he was close to suicide. I need to respond to that post, and I invite you to do the same. Here is the comment as...
Who and what is God? This question has occupied the mind of humans for thousands of years. And it is clear that, after all this time, we have still not come to any conclusions upon which all of us can...
Tomorrow, back to CwG. But for today, let me ask you an honest question -- because it is important. What, exactly, is "wrong" with same sex marriage? And let me ask you another question. Is it humanity's business to legislate...
Alice Walker has written a marvelous letter to President-Elect Barack Obama. It is an "Openm Letter," and so I am sure that Alice will not mind my sharing it here. It is both instructive and inspiring. Enjoy it. Dear Brother...
Is it possible that we actually now have a political leader who understands that the highest truth of life is our Oneness? Yes, it is! The people of the United States chose that leader two days ago. It was a...
And now it is time to heal, and time to end the division, and time to rally behind the two people who have been elected to lead the United States and, in many ways, the free world: Barack Obama and...
Barack Obama has won the first vote for President taken in the United States today, the Associated Press has reported. In a story datelined DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (Nov. 4), the AP said that Democrat Obama "came up a big winner...
There are many ways that you can support the ideas of the new cosmology introduced into our world by today's contemporary spiritual messengers. Today I would like to tell you about one way you can do this if you live...
There's a ballot measure that people will vote on Tuesday in San Francisco that would decriminalize prostituion, did you know that? What do you think of that? Evelyn Nieves of the Associated Press wrote a story about this a week...
Is there any place for the idea of "Oneness" in our political system -- or in any other human system, for that matter? On October 28 the reader posting here as "SheerLuckHolmes" added the entry below to the Comments Section...
It feels like it's becoming the same tug-of-war in every election. Are you noticing this? Are you wondering, as I am, how it has come down to this these past 10 years or so? It's the urban vote vs. the...
The leaders of the world are getting it. All of the writing in Conversations with God said that they would, and they are. And so, the New Cosmology is about to be embraced, and the New Cosmology Movement is about...
Barack Obama was asked the other day about any direct criticisms he would make about the presidency of George W. Bush. Sen. Obama was, for the mild-mannered and studied man that he has portrayed himself as being, remarkably forceful in...
Is there something wrong with being Muslim? Somebody tell me, because I need to know. I mean, are Muslims nice? Or, can they be? Or are Muslims genetically incapable of goodness...? What is true here? I need to know. Because...
Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain says that repealing the tax cuts granted to the wealthiest Americans by the Bush Administration and passing the savings on to middle and lower income Americans, in the form of tax cuts for them, is...
I just wish the conservatives in this country, and so many of the "God fearing" folks, would stop calling liberals anti-American. Is it necessary--is it really necessary--to impugn the patriotism of people simply because their political views may be more...
What if the words "God" and "life" are interchangeable? Wouldn't that make for an extraordinary spiritual cosmology? The implications are--if it's possible to imagine this--more than enormous. They're staggering, earth shaking, paradigm-shattering. This is because everyone knows what is true...
What if God does not want something from humans, but only exists to give something to humans? On this Sunday I invite you to consider that somewhat radical thought. And what if what God wants to give to humans is...
I just saw a poll at AOL.com that said that 85% of respondents supported the death penalty. Are you among them? Do you think we should kill people in order to stop people from killing people? The question on the...
I hate hypocrisy. And I especially hate it in religion. So you will understand my revulsion around the loving embrace of evangelical Christians of Sarah Palin's candidacy for vice president of the United States. Let me help you to understand...
Today I would like you to consider the possibility that most of the world's people hold an inaccurate belief about God. Consider the possibility that the truth about God is something that most people can't even imagine. For instance, wouldn't...
What is God's agenda? What is God's requirement? Do you know? Are you sure? On this Sunday, let us think about that. We continue today our series called Sunday School All Week, by inviting you to consider the following... We...
Yesterday the high court in Connecticut overturned the ban on gay marriage there. It said that the State's constitution did not permit the State Government to refuse to grant marriage licenses to gay couples. This is, the high court said,...
Garrison Keillor is a syndicated columnist whose writings and work I have admired for a very long time. He has hundreds of thousands of other admirers all around the world. He wrote a column recently that was passed on to...
If you serve your country in public office, as a mayor, say, or a governor, it is not "work" in the regular sense, right? I mean, politicians don't actually "work," right? This is what some people think, anyway. In response...
Does it matter whether a person who could become President of the United States can put two sentences together in a way that makes sense? Apparently, it does not. At least not to 4 out of 10 people. A poll...
Embracing Godliness is not easy. It can be, but for most people it is not. That's because most of us do not want to give up what we have to give up in order to "get Godly." As I look...
Is it okay to glorify the self? Or is that the sure road to perdition and pathway to hell? I know it must be very, very bad form to admire one's own quotes...but... Somebody posted this last week in the...
The word "theology" has been defined as "God Logic," or, more loosely, the knowledge or knowing of the Divine. Today we embark on this more seriously in this space than ever before. Today we shall open a deep discussion of...
As you look at your life and as you look at the world around you, do you think you are seeing a reflection of What God Wants? If not, what do you think that God does want? I have an...
Evil exists everywhere, and every God-centered person I have ever met wrestles with the question of how to deal with it. Yesterday I received the following heart-rending message from a person posting as "Diana Ekman" in the Comments Section of...
Did you know that your body is something you have, it is not something you are? As I've said in this space before, it is a tool. A device. A mechanism. It is a physical machine, and a marvelous one,...
Is suffering necessary in life on Earth? No, says Conversations with God. And all the spiritual masters of the world through all the ages have agreed. Yet how is this possible? Yesterday in the Comments Section of this blog the...
Most of the people on earth agree that there is such a thing called God. But what is that--and how does it work? That's the question that has captured the attention of philosophers and theologians for thousands of years. Today...
One of America's most conservative female columnists has just called for Sarah Palin to get out of the race for vice-president, saying, essentially, that she is an embarrassment. Tomorrow we return to the topics of the New Spirituality, as Sunday...
Must a loving person never raise his voice, or say an angry thing, or use sharp words to make a point? My entry here yesterday brought some wonderful and interesting responses...among them, there was an entry from the person posting...
Does "Oneness" mean "Sameness"? Does "Unity" mean "Uniformity"? Does "Singularity" mean "Similarity"? Today I would like to ask you all a question. I really want to know. What do you think? What do you really think about this? The other...
There is a problem in the world today, but it has nothing to do with politics, economics, or military excursions. Can you guess what it might be? A fascinating discussion took place at a three-day CwG event I recently facilitated...
For one of the most striking and vivid insights into the politics of America today, I offer an extraordinary essay by Tim Wise now making the rounds on the Internet. Its author, Tim Wise, invites every one to share it...
Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the One True Church? Have we found a sure way to heaven at last? Or does it matter which way we take? Sunday School All Week continues today with a look...
In your opinion, have our earthly theologies provided humanity with effective guidance on how to live together in peace and harmony? Here's my opinion: No. In fact, far too often they have produced just the opposite result. Today 400 children...
We in the U.S. are about to decide who is 'in charge' here, by electing our next president in just a few weeks. But who is 'in charge' here on the whole earth? Is it God? That is the question...
We will continue our discussion of the function of God in our next blog, but for now, I believe it is important for me to respond to a posting in the Comments Section here from a person who apparently has...
There are those who say we are on the verge of a major, major economic collapse in this country and around the world. Today's events with one-time financial giant Lehman Brothers declaring bankruptcy, together with last month's government bailout of...
Over 170 people posted comments on our blog here last Friday. Nearly 100 posted about our blog yesterday. People are hungry to talk about God, and God's role in our lives, that's clear. I am going to do my best...
In this, the sixth week of our Sunday School All Week program, we tackle the question, "What is God's function?" Many people think that God's function (in simplistic terms) is to, first, create the heavens and the earth, then to...
Is Hurricane Ike God's will? Is the possible devastation of Galveston, Texas God's will? Who creates our reality, God, or us -- or no one in particular...just....Fate....? If you have come to this blog for the first time today, welcome...
People love to talk about God. Some people even love to talk TO God. And a few people even love to talk WITH God. Our "classmate" Deb Reilly talks to God a lot. I know, because she told me so,...
Wow. Over 50 people posted entries in the Comments Section of yesterday's blog here. There's quite an interesting phenomenon developing on this site...many people are meeting up at this web location daily to see what's being said...and to join in....
If "The Kingdom of God is within you" means that God is in you, does that mean that God and we are One? Or does that mean that God is STILL "over there" while we are "over here"...? This question...
"Did you notice that the theology represented by our traditional teachings is a theology of separation? In this theology, we are "over here" and God is "over there." Where, exactly, is God? And, wherever God is, is God separate from...
In this, the fifth week of our Sunday School All Week program, we tackle the question, "What is God's purpose?" We have now established in this class that God does exist. And we have discussed the exact nature of God;...
Every religion on the face of the earth insists that it knows What God Wants. But do they? Are these religions accurate in their assessments of the needs and demands, requirements and expectations, rules and regulations of our Deity? For...
Could we get back to God? Have we had enough talk about "politics" these days, and could we just get back to God? That was the request of one of our blog readers on Wednesday. She wrote... Ok, I'm sorry...
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Boy, do I like the way Barack Obama handles things. Man. How can anybody argue with this? CNN reported Monday that Obama gave a blistering response to a question about a Reuters news service report that quoted an unnamed senior...
Who is Jesus, really? Is he our savior? Is he the Son of God? And what is our relationship to Jesus, and to God? Last week a question and answer appeared in the Weekly Bulletin of the Conversations with God...
Do humans need more regulation, or less? More laws, or fewer? More restrictions, or none at all? Is it the role of government -- and religion, for that matter -- to keep us "in line"? I rarely do this here,...
Have you ever asked why we have a God? Children do all the time. The first three weeks of Sunday School All Week we have explored what Life is, and whether there is a God, and if so, what God...
What does God want? That is the question before the house. What in the world does God really want? What does He want from human beings? What does He want us to think, to believe, to do? That is the...
Ironic, isn't it, that in the very week when all we've been talking about here is the place of women in our society, Republican presidential candidate John McCain picks Sarah Palin to be his running mate? It was a bold...
The final word on women and their place in society is the Word of God, which makes the role of women very clear. God knows exactly What God Wants with regard to all of this, and it is humanity's job...
Is a woman allowed to speak? Is a woman allowed to lead? Is a woman allowed to have authority over men? Is a woman allowed to hold a position of responsibility in God's church? By the way, which church IS...
Why is God? That is, why does God exist? Or, as a wonderful 7-year-old asked his Mom recently, "How come there is a God, anyway?" Good question. In order to answer it we need to get clear, first of all,...
Does God want us to have what we desire? Yes. Does God say we can have anything we want? No. Sunday School All Week continues here today, and I can't go a step further without responding to an entry in...
What do we do when we've "had it" with life, and "thinking positively" just is not working for us anymore? Is there a place in life for anger? Yesterday I ran a lengthy piece in which I quoted extensively from...
Are human beings destined to forever suffer "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," as Hamlet put it, or do we have the power to "rise up against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them?" I ask the...
If you believe that you can have anything you want in life, you are in for a downfall -- no matter what that movie The Secret says. The Law of Attraction does not say that whatever you want, you get....
Yes, Virginia, there is a God. Yet God may not be what you have been told God is. For one thing, God is not Male. So when we keep referring to God as 'He,' we are inaccurate. For another thing,...
Does God want anything? Does God require anything of God's Creations? If we do not give God what God wants, will God judge us, condemn us, and punish us with everlasting torture? There is much that humans have been taught...
Where is God when we really need Him? Why is God so silent when we are begging Her for help? How do we get through the hard times with a God who is so distant? What about the painful moments?...
I should imagine that the human mind will never become bored with questions such as this: Who, and what, is God? Our answers, however, may make for more than mere intellectual stimuli. Our answers could change the world. Well, class,...
Back in the Sixties posters, billboards, and bumper stickers began appearing asking the question, Is God dead? This question presumed that there was a God who was at some point alive. The reason the question was asked is that there...
We should FEAR GOD, yes? This is our proper posture before the Divine! One of abject FEAR and TREMBLING. Yes? For we are all sinners, unworthy of anything but condemnation -- were it not for the mercy of the Lord....
Must we believe in Jesus to get to heaven? Does our life on earth as we have lived it count for nothing? Why is 'salvation' even required? The Theology Class at this blog continues today... I am very sorry that...
And so we move into the first round of responses and reactions to the responses and reactions of the extraordinary group that is gathering here to discuss and explore the greatest mysteries in the Universe. We began our Sunday School...
Beginning this Sunday, and for the next 20 weeks, we're going to take quite an excursion in this blogspace. Get ready for quite a ride. We're going to be talking about things that you haven't talked about since Sunday School....
Are our ideas about 'salvation' important in the daily life of the world? Or is this all just about our individual, personal, theologies? I think that is a crucial question. I raise it because of comment made here two days...
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What does Barack Obama think about God sending people to hell as a punishment of everlasting and indescribable torture if they do not come to Him through Jesus Christ? Is Obama a true "Christian?" Newsweek magazine, in its July 21...
Does being born again mean that people must abandon their non-Christian friends? Are people of faith to separate from those who 'don't believe'? Is this What God Wants? The other day I received a sad note from someone posting in...
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The startling story of Willie Earl Green will be told in the days ahead as part of an extraordinary Special Report on CNN tomorrow and Thursday evening at 9 p.m ET. The report has to do with life at San...
"Could you imagine a legal system that never punished anyone for anything?" That is the question posed by a member of the growing family of people entering the ongoing dialogue at this blog about What God Wants. Here is the...
A group of 200 Taliban fighters overran a group of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing nine Americans in uniform, and raising the specter, once again, of the Taliban asserting its fundamentalist brand of Islam wherever it holds sway...
Can Americans admit that the actions of the United States are at least equally as responsible for the world's unrest as the actions of other nations? That will be the key question facing U.S. foreign policy decision makers in the...
For the past week I have been asking some uncomfortable questions of Christians. Yesterday a reader of this blog posted a question to me... "Again Dear Neale I must ask you.....you have claimed to have direct dialogue with God Himself,...
Must human beings have male parts in order to be eligible to serve God as a member of the upper administration of His Church? Or, it put it more directly, can women be bishops? What does God want? Add why?...
Does God ever deliberately "lead us into temptation"? If not, why would we ask God not to? Why would we pray to God that way in the Lord's Prayer? = = = = = = = = = = =...