Help Me to Heaven 4/5/19

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A compilation of the contents of my last two blog posts, I investigate our hunger for more, where it’s leading us, and what a “yes” might look like.

Help Me to Heaven

We don’t have to step on each other to get to heaven. It’s an open invitation. We’re all invited. There is not limited seating. The offer to follow God to the banquet, the party, the place he says he is preparing for us is an unlimited party. The only ticket required is to say “yes.” To RSVP in the affirmative. To say, “Thank you, how wonderful, I accept.”

How we’ve taken an open invitation to a Heaven beyond our wildest dreams and turned into a competition deciding who gets to come and who gets to burn is amazing. The more we try to send others to hell, the more we’re sending ourselves there. When I try to alleviate my fears by convincing myself of my own holiness, thereby emphasizing someone else’s lack of holiness, I’m hurting us both. Read More

Why I’m a Unity Hopeful

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My first podcast – I explain the purpose of it. 

Coming Back Together

I’m aware that my target audience includes people for whom the name “God” or “Jesus” may be a turn off. In fact, that’s basically the criteria for my target audience. I’d like to offer an apology to those people on behalf of all Christians who made those names ugly. For people who, in the name of Christianity, in the name of Jesus, in the name of God, did very unchristian things. I’d like to apologize on behalf of all the people who’ve made Jesus look bad.

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Why I’m a Unity Hopeful

There’s a reason I chose an Aspen grove as the header image for this site. The trees all look like individual trees, but I learned years ago (on a trip to Aspen, naturally) that the Aspen grove is the largest single organism in the world. All those trees are actually one organism.

This is the philosophy behind everything I stand for. I believe there is a life force begging us all – all humanity – to consider that we are one large organism. I call this force God. You might prefer another word.

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