The pandemic and the meaning of life
The Covid pandemic has affected all of us, and has shaken many foundations. What are we learning about ourselves, our culture and the meaning we give life?
Tag: Life
Money can’t buy health or happiness?
Are wealthier people happier or healthier? What actually makes people happy? Which countries are the best to live in? Check out some statistics.
Whatever happened to my tennis shoe?
(An NDE story)
Who is right about near death experiences (NDEs), the true believers or the sceptics? Or neither?
Blowing in the wind
Race riots in the sixties drew a supportive response from young whites. Will it happen again? Will christians stand on the side of compassion and justice? Will it make a difference? The answer is blowing in the wind.
If there’s a God, why doesn’t he answer our prayers?
People pray but they don’t seem to get answers, except coincidentally. Doesn’t this show there’s no God there to answer them?
God and life in a time of plague
All the news is about the coronavirus, but what does this pandemic tell us (if anything) about God?
11. Finding God in everyday life
What this page is about We have seen that some people appear to have experienced God through a healing, a vision or other “peak” experience. But what of the rest of us, who haven’t had such an experience? Does God communicate in more “ordinary” ways? Does this make a difference in people’s lives? In this […]
10. Jesus appears to people – really?
What this page is about I don’t know about you, but when I hear a story of someone seeing a vision – of God, or Jesus or angels, or whatever – my first thought is to think hallucination, imagination or even invention. Likely as fake as the above graphic. We live in a day when […]
8. Experiencing God in a deep way?
This page in brief …. Some people have deep spiritual, or mystical, experiences. Many of them believe they have experienced God. Psychologists have examined these experiences, which are very real, and can describe some of their common characteristics. Could this really be God communicating with people? Let’s look at the evidence that psychologists have uncovered.
6. I think, therefore ……. ?
The story so far We have been looking at different aspects of our common experience as human beings that are hard, if not impossible, to explain if our universe is no more than physical. Most neuroscientists find it hard to see why our consciousness, our unique sense of ourselves, would evolve in a purely physical […]