By Carl Gregg, Patheos Spirituality Channel Contributor at Carl Gregg When I was 12, the most salient books on my parents’ shelves were two red-bound volumes, The Case of Leon Trotsky and Not Guilty. These made up the report of the Dewey Commission of Inquiry into the Moscow Trials. I never read them with the wide-eyed fascination I [...]

By Joanna Fontaine Crawford, M. Div., Intern Minister, Church of the Larger Fellowship

By Jamie Schwoerer, Patheos Contributor I was around 12 years old when my cousin, just a month younger than me, told me I was going to hell because, for whatever reason, I was missing Sunday school that week. After my Dad and I dropped her off at home, I asked him if I was really [...]

By Leah Libressco, Patheos Catholic Channel Contributor at Unequally Yoked For several years, a lot of my friends have been telling me I had an inconsistent and unsustainable philosophy. ”A virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism? Who won’t shut up about moral lapses as wounds to the soul and keeps [...]

By Lara Owen, Patheos Spirituality Contributor at A Spiritual Life I lost my religion when I was fourteen years old, very suddenly. It was a Sunday morning and as usual I was in church for Holy Communion. The curate, a likeable man well known to me as a neighbor and friend of my parents, and [...]

By Sam Alexander, Patheos Spirituality contributor at Christianity for the Spiritual but not Religious Timmy and I were swimming in Lake Luzerne when the lightening struck. I’m sure that if you’d been on the shore you’d have seen the second recorded instance of men walking on water. We were out of there in a flash. [...]

By David Matthew Brown, Patheos Spirituality Contributor at Wrestling with Yourself There is division within us, each of us, we are here to end the division and know ourselves and that will lead to complete freedom. That is true education. We see that division throughout the world in nationalities, most religions, race, traditions, politics, relationships, [...]

By Barbara Alexander, Patheos Spirituality Contributor at Awakening What’s Next As a child of the Midwest in the 1950s, religion was part of what I did. Mine was Methodist – reasonably benign theology and very strong community. The church was near our home so I walked or rode my bike to choir practice and youth [...]