I have three brothers. Once a month, I send ’em an e-mail to catch ’em up on the news. This one was sent outside that schedule, for the...

Ambrose and Olga Worrall seem to have said in The Gift of Healing, that the way to grow in one’s abilities in healing prayer is merely...

☺Please donate!☺ In a comment on a WaPo article about “Prosperity Gospel” televangelists, someone said: Jesus taught us to think of others needs before our own. As of now I dispute that Jesus taught that. If he did teach that, Jesus was wrong. Unless the Gospel is different for the rich than for the poor, which I am unable and unwilling to believe. (The teaching is pervasive in the words of Paul.) Need and self-love … have been consistent themes on this blog, so there is no n

A new thread at Messiah Truth . This is most emphatically not Jewish teaching. I expect it correctly to be condemned as not-Jewish. I...

At first I expected this author to affirm the “blame-your-past” orientation of “the prevailing psychological wisdom of our time.” ...

One is unlikely to understand this without first reading “From my diary: Learning to pray.” Bookmarks: 1. Don’t come uninvited. 2. You don’t need an invitation to love people. 3. Name names. 4. Word for word. 5. What you “see” is what you’ll get. [Conclusion] I consulted several Wikipedia articles in preparation for this post. All turned out to have been written by people who are hostile toward reports of anything that might involve a spiritual world. As much as I try to gi