Religious Thought

Western science has operated for centuries on the assumption that we can understand the universe without understanding ourselves. We are just now seeking to make the necessary connection between the general laws of nature and those of our own (inner) nature. But the job won't be done with "massive injections of the new consciousness"; we cannot democratize the sacred by cheapening its demands.

Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind.

After the loss of my wife, Michele, in April of 2020 (we were together for fifty-six years), my heartache overwhelmed me. While in a hospice therapy session, I learned one method of healing was to write poetry and to date each one to show the progression of your healing. These poems are a result of that. I hope they help you possibly as much as they helped me.

Deepak Chopra's passionate new book, Peace Is the Way, was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." In a world where every path to peace has proved futile, the one strategy that hasn't been tried is the way of peace itself. "We must not bring one war to an end, or 30," Chopra tells us, "but the idea of war itself."

Linda's book of political poetry, Thoughts in Rhyme from a Contentious Time, includes poems and song parodies written over six years, from the day Donald Trump rode down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015 to the final poem, written for the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. This collection includes a variety of rhyming styles and lengths, with narration to explain the events that inspired each poem and parody.

When acknowledging what it is you love and then pursuing it, you can stand firm and know that “no weapon formed of man” will ever prosper. Growth is realizing that sometimes that weapon against you...is you! Your mind-set could be your biggest ally or worst enemy. The choice is yours. This book's aim is to highlight the importance of getting out of your own way and sticking to a plan through lenses of growth and vulnerability.

Let these poems remind you of the strength and power of prayer. You will find verses reflecting on the bond that prayer gives us with God. Prayer can be defined as talking with God. Therefore, these poems remind us to ensure we talk with God not just in the bad times of our life but in the good times as well, and He will listen. Please be inspired by these poems about God, the verses that consider God and His authority. Please share these poems with your friends, family, and colleagues, plus anyone who may have misgivings or is questioning the truth that there is a God.

I am a woman living with cerebral palsy (CP) since birth. When I was prepping for graduation and finishing my final honors essay for school, I had a realization that based on experience, most of the world does not think or experience life the way I do. Despite my CP, the world still didn't seem to process experiences, feelings, or ideas the same way I've learned to be my normal way of functioning.

Right after college, Amy Peterson boarded a plane for Southeast Asia. She was hungry for adventure, eager to change the world, hoping to please God, and wondering if what she’d grown up believing would remain true on the other side of the world. As Amy immerses herself in the local culture and forges friendships across boundaries, her worldview expands. Then crisis hits.

Ten Thousand Steps, the debut collection of poetry from The Thought Finder collaborators, is a deeply personal treatise on the nature of the individual and the web of synchronicity that surrounds us. Intended to be listened to in any order, the collection arrays itself not as a single path to enlightenment, but as a constellation of destinations and possible connections. It’s a mosaic of ideas and emotional revelations that encourages the listener to forge their own path and take a conscious ownership of both their listening experience and their beliefs.

With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway best seller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.

"These raw poems explore identity, creative expression, love, and relationships of young adults." The 60+ poems and brief prose pieces in this moving collection put into words the passionate thoughts that surface during everyone's coming of age. Through free-verse lines, the touching hopes, dreams, fears, and desires of many young adults from different cultures and backgrounds shine through as inspiration.

This work delves into the correspondence between Isaac Orobio de Castro and Jan Bredenburg, highlighting the superiority of classical philosophy over the flawed reasoning influenced by Spinoza's ideas. Through meticulous logical analysis, Orobio exposes the inherent contradictions in modern philosophical materialism. He argues that Spinoza and his contemporaries disguise a new pantheistic atheism that replaces God with "Nature," relying on sophisms that ignore the common foundations of logic, grammar, metaphysics, and ontology.

Jamie Blaine's life isn't exactly going as planned. When a twist of fate places the late-night psychiatric crisis guy on 24/7 call, his insomnia ramps up to desperate stages as he veers closer to becoming the very kind of person he's trying to save. After a well-meaning colleague offers a workbook promising "the divine secret of life", Blaine throws himself into the stereotypical journey of self-discovery with hilarious and heartbreaking conclusions that are anything but clichéd.

Las ideas y experimentos en Energía al Cuadrado ayudan a comprender, en un lenguaje sencillo, muchas de las cosas que los guías espirituales han estado enseñando durante miles de años. A través de simples y placenteros pasos, Pam te comprueba que los milagros sí existen y que hay una fuente de energía extraordinaria disponible para ti. Confirma, con los nueve sencillos experimentos que te comparte, que tus pensamientos crean tu realidad. ¡Tú guía interior está siempre disponible para ti!

Essential listening for understanding the development of religious thought in America...or for just hearing a rousing good sermon! Dynamic performances bring these classic pieces of Americana to life!

Tired of religion? What if almost everything you were taught about Christianity is wrong? Would you give up on faith altogether? Or is it possible to rediscover - with fresh eyes - a richer and more satisfying understanding of God and spirituality? So You Thought You Knew is a refreshing journey written straight from the heart. It's about thinking outside the "institutional walls" of Christianity and asking the hard questions.

This compilation of poetry/works is a heartfelt account of life in the eyes of the author. This book has been designed with love, hope, and forgiveness to put into words what often is lost through life experience from the university of life.

From the Introduction: The hand of eternal progress is brushing the cobwebs from the corridors of time and is again revealing to the human race the mysteries of being. As there is "nothing new under the sun", the searchlight of Truth is bringing to light only what has been known to the few in all generations. The time has now come when the few must become the many. The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the Truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life.

Christmas should be a time of peace, togetherness, and celebration; yet it can leave all too many of us feeling overwhelmed by loneliness, stress and worry. In This Light is a timely collection of thoughtful meditations. The Most Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, leads contributions from celebrities, business leaders, athletes, politicians and others, whose names you might not know but whose stories you will come to love.