Universal Family
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 18:47:24
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Sinopsis
A spiritual, religious, and philosophical podcast . . . presenting a philosophy of living in truth, beauty, and goodness . . . centered on the concept that we are all brothers and sisters in the universal family of God.
Episodios
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Ten Rules of Fishing for Souls
27/11/2020 Duración: 02minThis list of rules deserves to go viral. Please help creatively. The text is in the blogpost on my website. Fishing for souls means attracting people to join the universal family of God.
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Let's be merciful
06/11/2020 Duración: 10minPoliticians and partners can do it. "Be merciful as you Father is merciful." The more we discover the mercy of God, the more we want to extend that by forgiving others. Thank you for forgiving me.
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The planet and step one
03/10/2020 Duración: 09minThose who would spread a message of light: Be lucid about our current plunge and preserve the torch of truth for the planetary teachable moment.
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Wisdom from an African philosopher
11/09/2020 Duración: 11minEthiopian philosopher Zera Yacob (1599-1692) was forced at age 27 to flee for his life from the king. He lived in a cave for two years until the death of the king; but during that time he began to piece together his philosophy. Here are excerpts and a bit of commentary. I find his thoughts very timely, and superior to what his Enlightenment contemporaries in Europe achieved.
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Loving God in simplicity
04/09/2020 Duración: 10minThe commandment to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength has enough complexity to it to call for love in its simplicity.
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Hackathon divinity moments
24/07/2020 Duración: 11minA hackathon is a problem-solving event involving teams that compete in a fast-paced, high-tech "marathon." This episode describes four manifestations of divinity in the process as I experienced it.
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Jesus, the master wheelwright
10/07/2020 Duración: 08minCivilization is a wagon train, and Jesus is the master wheelwright. A wheelwright is a person who builds and repairs wooden wheels. This episode explains the analogy.
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Nourishment and output
04/07/2020 Duración: 09minHow do we nourish ourselves on the bread of life? This is a string of word pictures with a thread of meaning running through.
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Tenth Leper Club
26/06/2020 Duración: 10minAfter Jesus healed ten men with leprosy, they went forth joyously, but one man turned back, and came to Jesus to give thanks and worship. This episode tells how we can break through the momentum of lazy appreciation and activate worship.
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Justice: divine, destined, established, evolving
19/06/2020 Duración: 10minA reflection framed by prayer distinguishes the justice of God; the justice that we look forward to in our planetary destiny when the kingdom of God will have come in its fullness; justice that is already established here and there; and justice that is evolving.
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Contrasts and blends
12/06/2020 Duración: 06minA reflection on the contrasting media images of response to the murder of George Floyd. An invitation to keep pondering.
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Camp Anytown dismantles stereotypes
06/06/2020 Duración: 16min70 diverse high school students are gathered for a three-day weekend at Camp Anytown (lots of details in the blogpost). After three days of organized interaction, they have confronted and exploded their prejudices and emerge as loving, mutually supportive, inspired leaders for positive social change. The last portion of the video presents comments/questions/criticisms that suggest paths of growth to add a layer of quality thinking to an already strong program.
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Two kinds of anxiety, two cures
29/05/2020 Duración: 14minThe two kinds of anxiety: physical discomfort or worse; and performance anxiety. What cures would you prescribe?
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Love and commandment
15/05/2020 Duración: 11minA divine commandment expresses faith in what you can do and be, orients your life, alerts you to the fact that the rewards of following are better than the consequences of rejecting, and promises support every step of the way.
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Doctors' orders and spiritual liberation
08/05/2020 Duración: 07minDoes your life seem over medicalized?
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Why is loving the neighbor like loving God?
24/04/2020 Duración: 09minAn amoeba, a book on public speaking, and a question that has long awaited being raised.
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A Christian reads Lao Tzu
11/04/2020 Duración: 09minLao Tzu: A noble man steeps himself in the Way, because he wishes to find himself in it. When he finds himself in it, he is at ease in it. When he is at ease in it, he can draw deeply upon it. When he draws deeply upon it, he finds its source wherever he turns. These phrases resonate with themes of Christian spirituality.
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If it's not liberating, it's not truth
24/03/2020 Duración: 07minIf we believe some spiritual truth that we know is supremely important, but we're not getting the transformation, we're still on the level of ideas. Here are some paths that lead from the idea-level of belief to the liberation level of faith.
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Health, sanity, and happiness
15/03/2020 Duración: 06minThe human personality system: body, mind, soul, spirit. When they are integrated and unified, the benefits are health, sanity, and happiness. Sanity means mental efficiency--so that we can use knowledge and wisdom to treat others as we want others to treat us; overcome the tendency to be invaded by fear and anxiety; cooperate responsibly with public health professionals and government authorities. This is a time when we have a golden opportunity to realize and practice the truths of the universal family--the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man (however you express it).
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Is truth more a what or a who?
28/02/2020 Duración: 09minDivine truth is like the light on a miner's helmet, illuminating the ever-changing scene, step by step. This is truth like a who. Those who know Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life will understand this, but the experience is not limited to Christians. The truths of science, philosophy, and spiritual experience are all contained in divine truth, and we can use these various levels of truth as stepping stones on our way to a peak experience.