For the few I’ve told of spiritual experience, I am often queried about the grand design of the universe, even of the maker himself and the spiritual design of life. From a space perspective, is it likely that extraterrestrial intelligences… Read More ›
The husband of a dear friend of mine has an aggressive form of cancer. Thus, sometimes our conversations focus’ upon the inevitable trip from cancer to heaven. What’s heaven really like? What’s heaven really all about? If I had the… Read More ›
Another in a Continuing Series of Letters to a Friend Dear Ms. J: I have heard of “Proof of Heaven.” But I prefer the material of Elizabeth Kübler–Ross. As a reader, her work seems more relevant than Eben Alexander‘s. What I… Read More ›
East of Tucson, Arizona is a retirement and short-term rehabilitation center. There in room 205, lay father. Ten days ago a perfectly healthy man entered the hospital to have knee replacement. Ten days later, a man was moved to this… Read More ›
To A Friend Who’s Hurting. Dear Ms. J: There is a strange coincidence to this world, where people meet people and move on, others seemingly connect for only a moment and others connect for a lifetime. You and I are… Read More ›
Despair isn’t unique to sailors. Every one of us is susceptible to despair. Perhaps we’ve lost a loved one. We can’t find a job. We see our children suffer or go astray. We watch as the loves of our life… Read More ›
David Brooks posted a wonderful editorial (Love Story) in the New York Times. Twenty years older than Isaiah Berlin, Anna Akhmatova had been a great pre-revolutionary poet. Since 1925, the Soviets allowed her to publish nothing. Her first husband had… Read More ›