People around the world have been both saddened and outraged by the recent tragedy in which Nurse Jacintha Saldanha committed suicide after transferring to the primary nurse of Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, a prank phone call from Australian radio…
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It Takes a Village to Make a Tragedy
Tagged with: death, individuality, Jacintha Saldanha, macrocosm, Mel Greig, Michael Christian, microcosm, prank calls, pranking, royalty, society, suicide, tragedy
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Is Hurricane Sandy God’s Punishment on the Wicked?
Amid the destruction and death caused by Hurricane Sandy there are stories of hope and redemption. A young man named Mike, washed out into the bay from his home on the Jersey Shore, managed to make his way back to…
Tagged with: children, Christianity, death, evil, fundamentalism, God, hurricanes, justice, mercy, natural disasters, punishment, suffering, the Bible
Posted in All About God, Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Bible Re-Viewed
It’s Not All In Your Head (And It’s Not All Your Fault)
Recently I’ve been reading anewfreelife’s blog on “rising from the ashes of domestic violence.” Here is her description of the blog: I am a survivor of domestic violence, and this is my voice. I am here to share with you…
Tagged with: abusive relationships, controlling relationships, domestic violence, evil, healing, karma, pain, poverty, punishment, reincarnation, spirituality, suffering, violence
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Sex Marriage Relationships
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Sex Marriage Relationships
Does Suicide Work?
The scourge of suicide Each year, tens of thousands of people in North America, and up to a million people worldwide, take their own lives as an escape from situations that feel overwhelming and hopeless to them. Millions more make…
Lee Boyd Malvo: Human Justice vs. Divine Justice
Lee Boyd Malvo. To anyone who was living in the Washington, D.C. area in October, 2002, that name, along with the name of John Allen Muhammad, is indelibly associated with terror, pain, and death. Muhammad was tried, convicted, and executed…
Tagged with: death, divine justice, evil, heaven, hell, John Allen Muhammad, justice, Lee Boyd Malvo, pain, sniper killings, suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Can Gang Members Go to Heaven? (Is Life Fair?)
A couple years ago a Swedenborg reader named Sue from San Francisco asked me a question. She had been thinking about an incident in which a 17-year-old gang member from Oakland had been shot and killed in a San Francisco…
Tagged with: children, death, gangs, heaven, hell, justice, pain, poverty, reincarnation, spiritual rebirth, suffering, violence
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
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