Category Archives: Religion/Faith

What’s Wrong With These Pictures?

Posted on March 29, 2024 by mitchteemley

It’s Good Friday, the day people throughout the world commemorate the most impactful death in human history. And yet, if these images, and even the suffering they depict, are all we see, then something’s wrong with every single one of … Continue reading →

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Sunday Is Coming!

Posted on March 28, 2024 by mitchteemley

Am I jumping the gun, celebrating too early? Maybe. But like the little guy in the photo, I can’t wait. Because I know Sunday is coming! And after that? Nothing will ever be the same. ~AΩ~

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Looking for a Bigger Love

Posted on March 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir It was the Easter season, but I wasn’t a believer. In fact, I’d been a devout atheist until the previous year when, ironically, my religion-debunking Folklore and Mythology class had prompted me to doubt my doubts (I’ve … Continue reading →

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Life and Death

Posted on March 24, 2024 by mitchteemley

I was raised in a secular home. There was no talk of heaven or an afterlife. This life was all there was. And yet at the age of five I dreamed I died. My parents and friends circled over me, … Continue reading →

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The Final Rite of Passage

Posted on March 21, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Grief never ends, but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith, it is the price of love.” ~Darcie Sims Five years ago this week, my … Continue reading →

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Forgiveness + Love = Freedom

Posted on March 17, 2024 by mitchteemley

Even the Romans feared the Irish. For centuries they avoided the people Julius Caesar called “more savage than any other race.” When the newly Christianized Roman monks finally arrived in the 5th century, they looked down on the Irish barbarians. … Continue reading →

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How To Be Free

Posted on March 11, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week As a kid growing up in smog-strangled Los Angeles I heard a radio ditty about a magical island “26 miles across the sea.” But I could never see it, so I assumed it was a myth. … Continue reading →

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A Heavenly Surprise?

Posted on March 10, 2024 by mitchteemley

We think we understand. But do we? I suspect the main sound heard at the entrance to heaven is not the fluttering of angel’s wings, but the slapping of foreheads, accompanied by startled “Ohhhhs!” “How great is God–beyond our understanding!” … Continue reading →

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Block Out the Noise

Posted on March 3, 2024 by mitchteemley

We’re in the season of Lent, a time of quietness, contemplation and repentance. In other words: truthfulness with oneself. How rare a thing that is in this “modern civilization” of ours. It’s also traditional to give up something for Lent, … Continue reading →

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The Sense of God

Posted on February 28, 2024 by mitchteemley

“The mind which thinks it knows Reality because it has made a diagram of reality, is merely the dupe of its own categories. The ‘sense of God’ is not a metaphor. Innumerable declarations prove it to be a consciousness as … Continue reading →

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