Understanding Civilizational Breakdown
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Pope Encourages Young Man Fearful of the Future
A young man wrote to Pope Leo, asking – among other things – for “prayers for his future and for the ability to understand how to live with the feelings of “restlessness and longing” while embarking upon his new path with serenity.” Read More
This is of course, reminiscent of the chance meeting that Jesus had with a troubled young man. Then, as now, young people need words of encouragement and hope and guidance through the challenges that they face. While Pope Leo’s words are comforting, any youth would be newly encouraged and inspired by the words of Jesus, spoken over 2000 years ago to another young man on the mountainside in Crete.
Forgiveness
Are you forgiven? Do you forgive? After 2,000 years, science and psychology are finally catching up with the teachings of Jesus. A recent article in the Washington Post reported that psychologists are discovering the power of forgiveness for health and well-being.
“A new analysis spanning more than 200,000 people across 23 countries and published in NPJ Mental Health Research, a Nature publication, found that forgiveness may be more than a moral ideal. It appears to function as a psychological ideal as well, across cultures,” said the article, “How to let go of grudges — and why it could be good for your health.” Read More
The teachings of Jesus and of The Urantia Book are rich with the ideal of forgiveness. See our topical study on the subject of forgiveness. Discover the value of forgiveness in your life HERE
25 Incredible Photos of the Milky Way from Around the World
Organized by Capture the Atlas, the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year saw a record number of submissions, with more than 6,500 entries representing a wide range of landscapes and perspectives around the world. Just 25 were selected as the top images, representing 12 different regions from the Canary Islands to New Zealand to Argentina.
The Urantia Book includes several Milky Way references. “Practically all of the starry realms visible to the naked eye on Urantia belong to the seventh section of the grand universe, the superuniverse of Orvonton. The vast Milky Way starry system represents the central nucleus of Orvonton, being largely beyond the borders of your local universe.” Read More
How Faith And Religion Shaped America’s First 250 Years
Patheos, the leading web platform hosting dialogue on all of the world’s religions, reminds us as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, it is worth remembering that freedom of religion is not a side note in our founding — it is central to it. From the start, our Founders made a promise: people could practice their faith freely, without fear of government control or persecution. Read More
Take Parenting Fears to Jesus
In a recent book review of the book “Fearless” by Max Lucado
“Wise are the parents who regularly give their children back to God. Parents, we can be loyal advocates, stubborn intercessors. And we can take our parenting fears to Christ.”
The Urantia Book give us many reasons to lean on Jesus when we worry about how best to parent our children. Jesus stood in the role of loving parent after the untimely death of his father, Joseph. For nearly twenty years, he raised his siblings as a wise and loving father.
Read about Jesus’ parenting style which can be a source of inspiration and advice for any parent. Truthbook also offers an in-depth study of Jesus and his brothers and sisters and the rich ife they shared in their Nazareth home.Read Here
Jesus Didn’t Die for Your Sins
This essay was posted to Street Prophets, a progressive religious community. Read More
Excerpt: “God is not bloodthirsty. Too many people have been alienated from Christ by Christian theology. One of the most alienating doctrines is penal substitutionary atonement theory, the belief that Jesus died as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, having taken our sinfulness onto himself to save us from eternal damnation. A close relative is satisfaction theory, Anselm’s belief that, since finite humankind has sinned against an infinite God and cannot repay its infinite debt, God sent Jesus as an infinite, divine-human substitute to satisfy the divine honor and expiate our guilt for us, thereby restoring right relationship.”
The concept of God as a vengeful autocrat who can be appeased only through death by torture does not cohere with Jesus’s revelation of Abba as a loving Parent. Loving parents are not inflexible disciplinarians, and skillful parents frequently forgo their wayward children’s punishment and offer mercy instead. Urantia Book readers are well-aware of the falacy of that doctrine. It has been such a stumbling block to the faith of countless souls.
Urantia Book teachings about the topic of atonement are Here: Read our topical study
Why is Childbirth So Hard – and Getting Even Harder?
“Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story.” Read More
The Urantia Book simplifies this issue of painful childbirth even more. Painful childbirth seems to be the result of early race-mixing with the Nodites—descendents of the prince’s staff who followed him into rebellion—and the Adamites. The Adamites intermarried with the Nodites, degrading the purity of their lineage. These early human beings were not so sensitive to pain nor so reactive to unpleasant situations as were many of the later evolving mortals. Childbirth was not a painful or distressing ordeal to Fonta and her immediate progeny. 63:4.2 (713.8)
Eve did not suffer pain in childbirth; neither did the early evolutionary races. Only the mixed races produced by the union of evolutionary man with the Nodites and later with the Adamites suffered the severe pangs of childbirth. Read More
I Love Jesus, But Do I Need Church?
Christian Today offers a perspective on the question, ‘I love Jesus, but do I need church?’ “Let’s be honest: the hesitation some people have toward church is not unfounded. The past few decades have brought deeply painful revelations about the church – abuse, manipulation, scandal, and hypocrisy.”
“We’ve all heard the phrase “Be the change you want to see” and, yes, sometimes we can feel like we’ve heard it one too many times. But there’s real wisdom in these words. Rather than walking away, can we be the ones to roll up our sleeves and put in the hard work of building the Church God wants to see in this world? That can’t happen if we’re not a part of it.”
The Urantia Book is not anti-church. It teaches us that “all live religions encourage human friendship, conserve morality, promote neighborhood welfare, and facilitate the spread of the essential gospel of their respective messages of eternal salvation.” Read More
And: “There is great hope for any church that worships the living God, validates the brotherhood of man, and dares to remove all creedal pressure from its members.Read More
People Are Using AI to Communicate with God – But Why?
In a piece on KRON4 TV in San Francisco, they took on this question because humanity has long yearned to understand the fundamental question of why we exist on Earth, and many have historically turned to religion for answers. “People feel disconnected from community, from elders, from temples. For many, talking to an AI about God is a way of reaching for belonging, not just spirituality,” Read More
But is there a better, more accurate way of finding God? Urantia Book teachings offer advice on achieving spirit-consciousness—contact with the divine presence. Here are a couple: “By opening the human end of the channel of the God-man communication, mortals make immediately available the ever-flowing stream of divine ministry to the creatures of the worlds. When man hears God’s spirit speak within the human heart, inherent in such an experience is the fact that God simultaneously hears that man’s prayer.” Read More and “The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness.” Read More
