Religious Fervour Migrating into Politics

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According to the Economist, “The evangelical culture warriors of the right take on the Democrats’ new Puritans. More people claim to have “no religion” than to be Catholic or evangelical Christian. Yet unlike European countries, America is not becoming clearly less devotional as its churches retreat.” Read More

The Urantia Book says, “Religion was taking shape as a system of human thought and conduct more and more to be separated from politics, sociology, and economics.”  Read More

Volunteers in a NASA-created Mars replica for over a year emerge

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The four crew members entered the 3D-printed Mars replica on June 25, 2023, as part of a NASA experiment to observe how humans would fare living on the Red Planet. Read More

The Urantia Book believes, “There are thousands upon thousands of living creatures which your imagination could not possibly picture.” Read More

Universe’s Oldest Stars ‘Going the Wrong Way’

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Newsweek covered this finding and said. “The only way you can have stars going the wrong way from the rest of the gang is if you threw them in the wrong way,”  Read More

The Urantia Book corroborates: “All of the solar system material derived from the sun was originally endowed with a homogeneous direction of orbital swing, and had it not been for the intrusion of these three foreign space bodies, all solar system material would still maintain the same direction of orbital movement. As it was, the impact of the three Angona tributaries injected new and foreign directional forces into the emerging solar system with the resultant appearance of retrograde motion. Retrograde motion in any astronomic system is always accidental and always appears as a result of the collisional.” Read More 

The IRC (International Rescue Committee) & Einstein

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In 1933, Albert Einstein and a small group of humanitarians banded together to found what became the International Rescue Committee. They now work in over 40 countries. Discover IRC HERE

The Urantia Book discusses hunger as the original incentive for humans to connect. Then, as civilization developed, men acquired new incentives for saving; new wants were rapidly added to the original food hunger. Poverty became so abhorred that only the rich were supposed to go direct to heaven when they died. Jesus said: “I tell you that, even when a cup of cold water is given to a thirsty soul, the Father’s messengers shall ever make record of such a service of love.” Read More

First Animal Ever That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive

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This discovery doesn’t just change our understanding of how life can work here on Earth – it could also have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. Read More

The Urantia Book tells us of a planet In “close proximity” to us that harbors a race of beings who are nonbreathers. These beings do not need oxygen to survive and live a life that is “radically different” from life as we know it. Nevertheless, they are will creatures like us. Read More

Is War Inevitable? Consider the Ancient Maya

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Two archaeologists show how investigating tactics, weaponry, and the logistics of battle helps answer questions about social conflict in the human experience. Read More

The Urantia Book has much to say regarding world peace. “If we believe that The Urantia Book offers insight and direction to help guide our thoughts and decisions we should also find its commentary on war and peace, their purpose, meaning, and value to us and our world to be of comfort and support during any time of moral and emotional struggle. We have the benefit of a revelation to direct our reasoning, corral our emotions, and to provide a logical foundation for our war opinions and peace desires. Read More

 

Five steps to lasting world peace

5 Steps to Lasting World Peace

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Click HERE to Watch Video. How can we achieve lasting world peace when there is war and destruction in the world? According to The Urantia Book, creating world peace is achievable if we follow the 5 steps in this video.

Independence Day & The Rest of the World

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The USA will celebrate Independence Day July 4th but what about the rest of the world? The United Nations, for example, proclaims The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a milestone document in the history of human rights. Read More

The Urantia Book also believes that freedom is a human right. “Peace be upon you. That which my Father sent me into the world to establish belongs not to a race, a nation, nor to a special group of teachers or preachers. This gospel of the kingdom belongs to both Jew and gentile, to rich and poor, to free and bond, to male and female, even to the little children.” Read More 

Happy Fourth of July!

James Webb Space Telescope — Live updates

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Using its powerful and sensitive infrared eye, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has peered through the dense gas and dust at the heart of the Cigar Galaxy to investigate a region of intense star formation. Learn about this and many other developments at Space.com

 Part of The Urantia Book explores the cosmos. For example, “Your planet is a member of an enormous cosmos; you belong to a well-nigh infinite family of worlds, but your sphere is just as precisely administered and just as lovingly fostered as if it were the only inhabited world in all existence.” Read More

 



The Vital Role Fathers, & Father Figures, Play in Children’s Emotional Development

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Happy Father’s Day!

Dads really do matter. Children need fathers – just as they need mothers – to love them, to be interested in them and to respond to their needs, making them feel valued and understood. Read more for specifics about why Father’s matter.

 The Urantia Book says in Paper 72:3.4, “It is expected that the most valuable part of a child’s education and character training will be secured from his parents and at home, and fathers devote almost as much attention to child culture as do mothers.” Read More