Steve’s Musings



Democracy?

In a Grand Rapids Press article today, Fareed Zakaria points out some of the difficulties we have gotten ourselves into in Iraq which cannot be solved with a quick fix Money won’t change Iraq, speaker says. As we pour billions of U.S. tax dollars that we don’t have yet but which will be paid for […]


God is talking to you

God is incredibly close and immanent. We can talk to God and God hears and knows and feels and experiences our lives right along with us. God talks to us and guides us on the path of life. God is a constant presence with us. We are free to acknowledge God’s presence and follow God’s […]


Why I write a new book

As I said in my last blog, I am writing a new book elucidating my beliefs about God, the purpose of life, the nature of the self, how to attain enlightenment, etc.. As a spiritual guide and minister, I feel it is important to do this. I often call myself eclectic, but what does that […]


New book explains it all

I just started writing a new book, sort of The World According to Steve or Steve’s Systematic Theology. The final title is yet to be decided–perhaps Practical Mysticism or some such thing. From time to time, I’ll give you some previews on this blog page such as the following: Well, let’s start at the beginning. […]


A Perfect Life

As I prepare to lead A Perfect Life workshops later this month, I must ask, “What is a perfect life?” Believe me, I had to go through some soul searching before I could even think of leading A Perfect Life Workshop. The Buddha said, “Life is suffering.” For years, I said, “Life sucks.” In so […]


More religion and politics

Well, here we go again with religion and politics. Governor Granholm made a remark in a TV interview using the Bible to point out the hypocrisy of cutting services to the poor while giving tax cuts to the rich. Governor’s religion remark rankles GOP lawmakers Of course these Republicans who are so quick to point […]


Religion and politics revisited

As I was discussing in my blog Tuesday, there is a call for liberal churches to engage in the political arena. This is reflected in an excellent article Salon.com News | God is not a right-wing zealot that I came across today. It would be good to see the mainstream get off its duff, get […]


Be true to yourself

Ah, to be oneself, to live true to one’s own nature, to fulfill the purpose we are here for, what greater goal can be attained? However, too many are lured from this path by seductions of power, wealth, fame and grandiose illusions. Baubles of material rewards are dangled before us as temptations to renounce our […]


Passionate Life

I am reading Why Your Life Sucks by Alan H. Cohen for the second time, a rarity for me. That tells you how good the book is, not how much my life sucks. He points out how people fear their passions. Rather than letting our passions dictate how we live our lives, we repress them […]


Religion and politics

I just read “Putting God Back in Politics” by Jim Wallis. This article appeared in the December 28, 2003 edition of The New York Times. Jim Wallis is editor of Sojourners magazine and the convener of Call to Renewal, a national network of churches working to overcome poverty. He faults the Democrats, esp. the presidential […]