Last week I was invited to celebrate Diwali with a friend. I’ve always had an interest in Indian culture and traditions so this was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights celebrated every year, usually somewhere between mid-October to mid-November. One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, it signifies the victory […]
How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There’s Life After Death Book Review This was a fun book to read, quite different from other books about life after death. The author, Annie Kagan, writes about her own experience of receiving messages from her recently deceased brother Billy. Annie was not a medium or psychic, and was […]
Unification Thought is a philosophical expression of the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Those teachings were first published in English as the “Divine Principle”, but that book is very theological in nature. It contains numerous remarkable insights on the Bible which, when strung together, provide a profound understanding of God, humans, and the universe. […]
“I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what’s important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it’s through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man”. – Louis Schwartzberg “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the […]
In coming together to learn of spiritual things on Sundays, there is a natural assumption that we have a spirit or soul to take care of. Some may doubt that or more likely, live somewhere between doubt and certainty. It is often the catastrophic that propels us toward certainty. You have all heard of an […]
During December 1992, at the height of religious conflict in India, I was there representing the Religious Youth Service (RYS) and preparing a series of events in multiple cities aimed at promoting interreligious harmony. Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy of nonviolence helped stimulate the gigantic nations’ march forward on its path to political independence from […]
In Part 1, we were introduced to Fr. Nithiya while he was working on an RYS project during the period of transition in post-communist Hungary. In Part 2, Fr. Nithiya returns inspired to India and helps launch service initiatives and programs reaching the poorest of the poor and receives personal encouragement from Mother Teresa. Service […]
And Jesus said, “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to the Father who is in heaven.” Mt. 5:16 The Transformative Power of Service One way to measure the true value of a service initiative is by weighing how much has positively changed after the […]
Life Begins and Progresses through Family “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII “If a country is to be corruption […]
Without Others there is No Love “Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” – The Buddha “The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich “This world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the […]
