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Continue reading →: Environmental Stewardship as a Religious and Spiritual Responsibility
I have a family member who grew up in a small, predominantly conservative and Christian town in coal country USA. In this town, the men and boys would go out with their rifles every hunting season, claiming that hunting animals for fun was their “right.” There were guys who argued…
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Continue reading →: There Are 28 Vacant Houses For Every Person Experiencing Homelessness in the U.S.
It’s not just your imagination. Since the pandemic, there really are more tents popping up in cities and people sleeping on the streets. And yet what is even more startling, is that there are 28 vacant houses for every person in the U.S. experiencing homelessness. What may shock you even…
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Continue reading →: Are We At the End of History, Or the Beginning of a New Chapter?
In 1992, in the aftermath of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama argued that the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy represented, “The End of History.” In other words, the end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution and that the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government. Up until…
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Continue reading →: The U.S. is Not a Democracy-It’s a Corporatocracy
The United States is not a democracy. Now some smart alecks out there might say, “Yeah, it’s a representative republic.” But what if I were to tell you that wasn’t true either. In a republic, the people at least elect their own representatives. Yet in our system, 0.02% of Americans…
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Continue reading →: DEMAND!
Today we are living under a world order that is committing suicide. It is the responsibility of all spiritually minded people to demand something better. Yet we will not reach this level until we spiritually evolve. How do we do that? We must all learn about the great religious traditions…