The Spiritual Forum

Episode 40 - Practicing Hope

Hope exhorts courage and is underneath any forward movement toward our life goals. It is also something we can give to and receive from others. What is your current hope for yourself and the world? How can we use Hope powerfully in our lives? These are questions we explore in this episode.

Episode 39 - Qualities of Life

There are Divine Ideas or Qualities under everything that happens or exists. When we express Gratitude, we usually extend it to people, circumstances or things. But if we dig to find the Quality underneath a situation in our life, a whole new experience may open up.

Episode 38 - Gratitude Changes Everything

Living with an attitude of gratitude changes everything. It lifts us to a higher level and allows more Good to be revealed. In this episode we talk about who/what we can be radically grateful for and how being grateful in the midst of so much sadness and challenge in the world is a good thing. Gratitude fundamentally changes us.

Episode 37 - Spirituality and Eating

In this episode, Rev. Carol engages best-selling author and lifestyle coach, Victoria Moran, in dialogue on spirituality and eating, the original teachings and practices of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore on ethical vegetarianism, and the new spiritually-focused documentary, A Prayer for Compassion. Whether you are vegan, vegetarian or omnivore, this dialogue brings to the surface our need to examine the way we have been culturally conditioned to eat, as we do our best to live as Compassion and Peace, and create a sustainable future for everyone on our planet.

Episode 36 - Beyond Death

Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage. It is similar to observances in other societies of a time to celebrate the life of a deceased loved one. Believing that the dead would be insulted by mourning or sadness, people celebrate the lives of the deceased with food, drink, parties, and activities that the deceased enjoyed in life. But what is death? What is beyond death? These are the questions that we will be delving into this Sunday during The Spiritual Forum.

Episode 35 - The Spiritual Roots of Halloween

Halloween has a long history. Our annual trick-or-treating tradition is rooted in the 15th century celebration of All Soul's Day, when people went door to door to offer prayers for people in exchange for cakes. When look at this historical tradition and remove its religious trappings, we can see a spiritual Truth, which is, when we pray for others, we receive bountiful gifts! In this episode we share about the spiritual gifts we receive when we we pray for others. It changes us.

Episode 33 - Ten Spiritual Truths: Bear Witness to Truth

Bearing false witness can be about lying, but it is much more. It can also describe the ways we see another or ourselves falsely. It is what we do when look at another and see lack, limitation, what's missing, inferiority (or superiority) or what's wrong with them. These are some of the ways we judge our brothers and sisters (and ourselves) in the relative world, instead of seeing their Divine Truth. Beholding and giving voice to the Divine Truth is what living spiritually is all about!

Episode 34 - Ten Spiritual Truths: Be Satisfied

This is the final Spiritual Truth and it's about coveting. Coveting is a little different from envy. It is more than a feeling. When we covet, there is usually an obsessive thought attached to the desire - like an addiction - which can consume our lives. It's under a lot of misery! Beyond that, if we look even deeper, this Spiritual Truth calls us to not focus on what seems to be missing in our lives, but to be satisfied and present! That's where all the Good is.