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Cancel Culture: The Young and the Rootless
Cancel culture. Its supporters see it as a way for marginalized people who previously had no voice to make their voice heard against the rich and powerful people who have oppressed them in the past, and continue to oppress them…
Tagged with: cancel culture, John Muir, justice, oppression, race relations, racial politics, racism, Sierra Club
Posted in Current Events
Posted in Current Events
Black Lives Matter
Here at Spiritual Insights we have watched with concern the debate raging in the United States over the saying “Black Lives Matter.” For many years we’ve been appalled by the systemic abuse of the police power against our black and…
Tagged with: Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter, diversity, George Floyd, justice, Patrisse Cullors, race relations, racial equality, racial politics, racism
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Our Experience Moving to Soweto, South Africa
Dear Readers, This blog is not about us. It’s about spiritual insights to help you in your everyday life. However, given the big move we have made from the United States to South Africa, some of you may be curious…
What about 2 Corinthians 5:21? Didn’t God make Christ to be sin for us?
Note: This post will be a little more technical than most of our articles here on Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life. That is necessary in order to deal with a common objection to the Christian beliefs we present here. In…
Tagged with: atonement, Christianity, Jesus Christ, Paul, Penal Substitution, sacrifice, salvation, Satisfaction Theory, sin, sin offering, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
What is an Angel of Death?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Mpho Montsho: Let me share a question I was asked. It will be good to have you answer it on my behalf in depth:…
Tagged with: abaddon, angel of death, angels, apollyon, death, evil spirits, Satan, Swedenborg, the Bible, the Devil, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Two New Online Swedenborg Discussion Groups
Are you looking for a place to discuss the Bible, Swedenborg, and issues of spiritual life with other people in an open format? If so, please check out these two new online Swedenborg discussion groups: New Church Discussion Group Swedenborgian…
Tagged with: chatroom, Christianity, Discord server, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, online chat, religion, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Current Events
Posted in Current Events
Coronavirus: Act Sensibly for Everyone’s Good
In The New Jerusalem #100 Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) wrote: Kindness is doing things sensibly so that good will come from them. As I write this, fear and panic are spreading around the world about the coronavirus, which has been declared…
Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, death, disease, flu, influenza, kindness, natural disasters, pandemics, SARS-CoV-2, suffering
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Spiritual Insights is Expanding to a Second Continent
Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life has been international in outlook and outreach right from its beginning seven years ago in September, 2012. Not only have we covered people and stories from many countries around the world, but we have had…
Tagged with: Mooki Memorial College, South Africa, The New Church of Southern Africa
Posted in Current Events
Posted in Current Events
Are We Headed for an AI Apocalypse?
It’s a staple of science fiction. 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Terminator; The Matrix; I, Robot. The plot: Humans create machines with artificial intelligence (AI). The machines become conscious. The machines turn on their human creators and kill or enslave…
Tagged with: AI, artificial intelligence, consciousness, human brain, machine learning, mind-body problem, philosophical zombie, robots, science
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
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