by Michelle Miller | Mar 3, 2019 | Latest
In your lifetime, you may have come across a few people who claim the need to lose themselves in order to find themselves. The escapist methods they employ might range from healthy meditation all the way to substance abuse. Although these people undertake dissimilar...
by Michelle Miller | Dec 21, 2018 | God and Suffering, Latest, Soul, Transcendental Desires
Biographers of Walker Percy often begin their work with the distressing tale of how Percy’s grandfather, father and mother committed suicide. With suicide as a major factor in his childhood, Walker sought a way to define himself as a Percy without falling to the...
by Michelle Miller | Nov 22, 2018 | Prayer, Special Prayers, Virtue & Freedom
As Christians, what exactly should we be thankful for on Thanksgiving? St. Ignatius of Loyola often emphasizes that giving thanks is the precedent to love. If we seek to love God, then we first have to give thanks to God for all the gifts in our life. In the video...
by Michelle Miller | Sep 24, 2018 | Near Death Experiences, Science, Reason & Faith, Soul
If we believe that a transphysical component of a person exists and has an experience that is similar to actual death during an NDE (near death experience), then we may use those experiences to extract information about the afterlife. Here are some common descriptions...
by Michelle Miller | May 31, 2018 | Happiness & Suffering, Latest, News, Science, Reason & Faith
Bishop Robert Barron recently gave a talk to the Catholics working at Google’s headquarters titled, “Religion and the Opening Up of the Mind.” In this talk, Bishop Barron discussed how religion, instead of making one closed-minded, “is meant to open up the mind and...
