Living Grace

Monday: There is no love without the freedom to reject love. Otherwise, we would be nothing more than biological machines. In giving us the gift of free will, God rolled the dice at the time of our creation.  Tuesday:  In the final analysis, what...

God is not a mental construct created by anxious human beings, but an actual Reality. God is a shoreless ocean of loving consciousness. Everything that happens in creation happens within the consciousness of God. Nothing catches God by surprise, including our most...

I’m going to make a bold statement: a nation’s law, ethics, culture, and religion are an articulated unity. I am not advocating for the marriage of religion and politics, but rather emphasizing that God is the primal ground of everything that is true, good, rational,...

As I discussed Putin’s violence against Ukraine with an old friend, he asked me, “You don’t still believe in the devil, do you?” I will paraphrase my answer in this way: “History bears testimony to a force that engenders enormous levels of violence, oppression, and...

We only know a living phenomenon or entity to the extent that we empathically enter into communion with him, her, or it. Otherwise, our knowing is merely intellectual, or worse, a projection of our own prejudices. In the final analysis, what we see happening in the...

In light of Putin’s senseless attack on Ukraine, not to mention the manifold levels of pain Covid visited on the world, a number of people have asked me to explain how a loving God could allow such enormous levels of suffering. Even Yogananda occasionally asked, “Why,...