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The slogan “Turn It Over” has a rich and powerful history in the annals of recovery. Loosely translated — if any translating is needed — it means: put your problem, addiction, disease, or life itself in the hands of Someone or Something Other Than Yourself. (Lowercase all of that if you prefer.) This someone or something doesn't require a name. It doesn't need a credo or a belief system. All it needs is practice. Your practice. Now take the concept of Turn It Over, and transfer it to the printed page. Turn It Over becomes Turn the Page. Select any page at random here and read the ...

Chris Highland, a former minister and chaplain who is now a freethinking humanist, brings together an assortment of essays from the last twenty years as he emerged from ministry and non-profit work and on into teaching, lecturing and writing. From the Preface: "To be simply secular may not actually be simple at all. As James Baldwin states, freethinkers aren’t often welcomed—some don’t want us around. Yet, we keep standing up, speaking out, raising our voices. Those of us who live with the questions need to keep asking them, pushing, pulling, nudging—we’re educators as well as ...

Two grandfathers. Each born in the same year. The story of their lives will shock you and delight you. The way their lives intersected will astound you. Michael Newman tells the story of his grandfathers and how the events of their lives led him to wrestle with the biggest questions of human existence. It started with a murder. It kept going because of a miracle. Be prepared to think, to ponder, and to observe. There are no easy answers when you look square in the face of reality. “There is No God, Or is There?” takes you on a journey you will never forget. It may even change your life ...

A fresh collection of scattered thoughts from the curious mind of a freethinking humanist who is not anti-religious. Chapters include: 1-Secrets of the Universe 2-What Have You Really Seen Today? 3-Ubuntu: A Secular Answer to Spiritual Questions 4-The Greatest Love of All 5-Is There a “Natural Spirituality”? 6-Ego de Lego (You Have Heard that it was Said) 7-What Ever Happened to the Golden Rule? 8-Frames of Faith & Points of Reference 9-Religious Morality & Secular Ethics 10-Disturbing Disruptions/Insightful Interruptions 11-Paul Laurence Dunbar & the Heart of Happy Hollow 12-The ...

Since 2016, Chris Highland has written weekly columns for the Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina. Drawing from his own experience in ministry and chaplaincy in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now writes as a freethinker from a humanist perspective. He engages many subjects and issues that concern people of faith--any faith--especially topics and ideas that also matter to non-religious people. Highland Views includes over 50 essays published as columns in the Citizen-Times. Writing with a tone of invitation, Highland welcomes readers across the spectrum from Evangelical to Atheist as ...

Another concise collection of selected short essays from Chris Highland, a freethinking humanist and former minister. With an inviting approach to the intersections of faith and freethought, the author presents a model for critical thinking beyond fearful faith and angry atheism. Companions along the way include: Sojourner Truth and John Muir, Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin and Jesus of Nazareth, Charles Darwin and Booker T. Washington, Thomas Paine and Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Buber and Aldo Leopold. Many of these reflections come from the author's weekly "Highland ...

Freethinker, humanist celebrant and former minister and chaplain, Chris Highland, links 25 concise essays that address controversial views of religion, faith and humanistic practice. Each essay hangs on a question-mark, with a central theme drawing on the title question: Was Jesus a Humanist? Essays include: Interview with a Strange Young Teacher? A Prophetic Professor’s Greatest Challenge? The Man from Nazareth: Liar, Lunatic or Lord? Was Jesus a Humanist? What if Believing Isn’t the Point? Leaving the Choir, Still Singing? Baby Gods? Saved from What? Open for Truth? Did Jesus Teach ...

This work is the first letter to my friend Aloysius regarding the “Virtue of the Gods.” It has been made available to you the reader in what shall be multiple formats. In the letter, I discuss the first virtue required to be one with the gods, which is: “a god walks through fire.” This encompasses many ideas, including that a god fears not pain nor suffering, a god has confidence, self-belief, has concern for the present and future of humanity, a god has agency and intent. A god does not succumb to threats of hellfire. A god knows that faith is not a virtue – faith is lazy. ...

Decem Mandata: ¿Y si los pecados que nos condenan no son los que nos contaron? En el principio no hubo palabra, sino miedo. Y de ese miedo, nació la Ley. Tallada en piedra, en sangre, en fuego, los Diez Mandamientos se erigieron no como una guía de virtud, sino como una advertencia sombría de nuestra propia fragilidad. Pero, ¿qué sucede cuando lo sagrado se convierte en el yugo del poder? ¿Cuando la fe ciega desata la violencia, y la obediencia es más letal que el pecado? "Decem Mandata" no es un evangelio. Es una profecía invertida. Toni Mederos te invita a un viaje perturbador a ...

No, it’s not that God is tired or wants to give up trying to save all the ungrateful and disobedient masses in the world. It’s just that God’s intention, from the beginning, was to occupy a much more intimate place in our personal lives than that of a “god” that we worship and fear. What God always wanted to be will blow your mind and fill your life with new excitement. And, what about Jesus? He is an important part of this story.

Volume V: Year C (2016) – Commentaries on the Sunday Gospels - Sundays of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter – Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time - An International joint publication of Libreria Editrice Vaticana and the Heralds of the Gospel

You have long believed that everything you have been taught and the text of the Holy Bible are in sync? Your pastor says so but it's time to take a closer look. Some of the things in this book will stun you, no matter how much you have studied the Bible. This book will illuminate 15 long-held areas of belief. In Church on Sand you will discover that... • Mother Mary's life was very different than you were told. • Jesus’ birth was a near-crisis. • Jesus’ future return will be far more recognizable than we thought. • An entirely new John the Baptist and baptism awaits you. • and much, much more.

In the ceaseless struggle for the souls of humanity, unseen spiritual forces weave a complex tapestry of influence, temptation, and turmoil. Among the most enigmatic and insidious adversaries in this spiritual battle are the marine spirits, entities that lurk in the depths of the unseen realm, often eluding the untrained eye. It is here, in the shadows of the spiritual world, that Christian prayer warriors are called to wield their spiritual weapons, armed with faith, prayer, and the Word of God. "Unveiling the Depths: A Guide for Christian Prayer Warriors to Expose Marine Spirits" embarks ...

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Robert Rich has made a lasting influence in the world of ambient and electronic music for four decades. Bird Servant represents his first published book of poetry. With detectable influences of David Budbill, Robinson Jeffers, Mary Oliver or Taoist poets like Tu Fu, Rich’s words carry themselves lightly with humor, and he delights in the musical possibilities inherent in language.

This book is written to shed some light on our spiritual life. This critical part of life is getting pushed back in our minds due to surrounding cultures and religions. Mainly due to the speed of online information overload. Our life is more focused on the gains in this world. Our life is entirely focused on today and not on the impact of our actions in the future and afterlife, if you believe there is one. The goal is to put what is being preached and sold in the world in simple words. What is being practiced and offered for how to live our lives, and what should be the drivers? Multiple ...