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Across almost all traditions, November is the month of gratitude in this country. Obviously, that stems from the Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday of the month – who comes up with those formulas, anyway? Oh well, that’s a blog for another time. In the last few years, I have become fascinated with the roots [...]
Everyone knows the boyish face of Hal Sparks – that geeky, quirky, Queer-as-Folky icon famous for his role as a subdued bottom boy on HBO, and as the animated host of Talk Soup. These days he’s busy touring the country on a laugh track. In case anyone doubted his opinionated, outspoken personality, watch him bowl [...]
As I walk my Spiritual path, every day seems to bring some new awareness that seeks my attention. I have been stimulated by many different things to take a closer look at my resistance. That feeling of rejecting or judging another or an alternate opinion or anything, really, that doesn’t resonate with me. Clearly, I [...]
There’s been an awful lot of reflection lately on who it is I came here to be and how am I demonstrating that to the world. There seems to be this constant tug-of-war between my ego self and my Higher Self for control of who I am and what it is that I am modeling [...]
One of the great minds of the past half century, Steve Jobs, has passed on. Hard to imagine any other figure who so changed the landscape of our lives in that time period. Jobs futurist vision of the direction of communication and human interaction led to producing some of the most amazing and innovative products [...]
We have all experienced judgment at some time in our lives. I think most of us have very clear memories of when another’s judgment has wounded us. Not so clear perhaps are the memories of our own instances of judging. The old adage goes, “judge not that, ye be not judged.” And the addendum to [...]
In the metaphysical philosophy of The Science of Mind, which I teach to high school teenagers on Sunday, we speak of prayer as a “mind treatment,” or affirmative prayer. It is not beseeching, begging or bargaining. In fact, it’s not even asking. It is an acknowledgment and acceptance of what is already the truth and [...]
Temple Emanuel, led by Senior Rabbi Joseph Black, is one of the more prominent Reform Jewish communities in Denver. Black shed some light on Orthodox and Reform Judaism, specifically concerning homosexuality in an effort to educate and offer a new and inclusive view of Judaism for the LGBT community. What are some fundamental differences between [...]
We are all familiar with Albert Einstein. He was one of the great scientific minds of the 20th Century. He helped formulate quantum physics and his theory of relativity changed science forever. He was also a man who worked very hard to reconcile what he felt was the spiritual nature of the Universe with his [...]
AIDS is an unvirtuous disease. It lacks sympathy, and it fails to answer pleas. It is devastating. I cannot say with certainty that AIDS brought many older gay men into the church, but it would not surprise me. The ’80s presented a crisis of epic proportions that had no explanation, and for which there was [...]