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  Kindle will be offering free copies of  When Liberty Enslaves  by Jerry Aveta, a winner of multiple awards, which recently reached  #88 in campaigns & elections, #95 in U.S. abolition of slavery history, and #98 in abolition history of the US. Go get your copy March 23-27! Book Description There is a common experience between our experiences today and those before the Civil War many years ago.  The effect of the intersection of faith and politics during these two experiences has had on our elections and our governance is uncanny in their similarities.  Both times an election insurrection was stopped by the sitting vice president.  Both times had people of the same faith on both sides of the social issues of the day claiming God’s favor and willing to divide the nation over those competing positions. Part 1 of this writing focuses on the Civil War era and how liberty centered around the issue of equality.  Some people of faith believed all me...

  Kindle will be offering free copies of  When Liberty Enslaves  by Jerry Aveta, a winner of multiple awards, which recently reached  #88 in campaigns & elections, #95 in U.S. abolition of slavery history, and #98 in abolition history of the US. Go get your copy March 23-27! Book Description There is a common experience between our experiences today and those before the Civil War many years ago.  The effect of the intersection of faith and politics during these two experiences has had on our elections and our governance is uncanny in their similarities.  Both times an election insurrection was stopped by the sitting vice president.  Both times had people of the same faith on both sides of the social issues of the day claiming God’s favor and willing to divide the nation over those competing positions. Part 1 of this writing focuses on the Civil War era and how liberty centered around the issue of equality.  Some people of faith believed all me...

  Religion, at its core, is a way of speaking. A way of reaching toward the divine, the ineffable, the mystery that pulses beneath all things. It is not the mystery itself. It is the language we use to approach it. Think ye that arbol is better than tree ? Is Spanish more sacred than English? Is Hebrew more ancient than Arabic? Is Sanskrit more pure than Tamil? These are languages—tools for expression, vessels for meaning. They carry culture, rhythm, metaphor. But they are not the thing itself. To say one religion is “true” and another “false” is like saying Old English was a false language because you now speak Modern English. It’s a category error. It confuses the vessel with the water it carries. The Language of Devotion Each religion offers its own grammar of reverence: Christianity speaks in parables and grace. Islam speaks in submission and beauty. Buddhism speaks in silence and insight. Hinduism speaks in multiplicity and rhythm. Indigenous traditions speak in la...

  Some years begin with fireworks. Others begin with questions. 2026 feels like a year for the seekers — not the loud ones, not the ones with perfect answers, but the ones who wake up wondering, Is there more? More than the scroll, the schedule, the noise. More than the performance of belief. More than the spiritual branding that promises peace in five easy steps. This year, the search for the Divine feels less like a pilgrimage and more like a quiet reckoning. The hunger beneath the surface You can feel it in conversations that start with “I’m tired” and end with “I miss something I can’t name.” You can feel it in the way people are turning down the volume, stepping away from curated certainty, and asking deeper questions: What does it mean to be held? Where do I go when I need real comfort? Is there a Presence that sees me when I’m not performing? These aren’t questions for algorithms. They’re questions for the soul. What seeking looks like in 2026 It’s not dram...