"The Book of Forgiving" by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu

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"What is reality? What is the meaning of human life? Why do we suffer? In this simple volume, international lecturer Ellis Potter explores three major world views that propose radically different answers to these eternal questions. In clear and compelling language, Potter shows us that the three world views, and the unique hope that each offers to humanity, have profoundly different consequences for how we see everyday reality and the ultimate purpose of our lives.

This book is a concise, reader friendly look at 3 basic ways of seeing reality from the East and the West. It wrestles with the problem of suffering and finds solutions in each of the 3 points of view. It is respectful of each world view and engages the readers in some deep and hard-hitting questions about how they identify themselves and how they look at and understand the world. Reading, thinking about and perhaps discussing this book will bring the readers into a clearer focus of their own way of seeing reality.

3 Theories of Everything is based on lectures by the author and has a large section of questions and answers drawn from actual discussions."

This book received an average of 4.3 stars out of a maximum of 5 by Amazon customers.

New and updated essays during 2019-MAR:

This web site had 40 newly created, re-written, or significantly updated essays during 2019-MAR, including the above book review.

New and updated essays during 2019-MAR:

This web site had 40 newly created, re-written, or significantly updated essays so far during 2019-MAR, including the above book review.

• Articles by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys:
  • With malice towards all, who aren’t like us"
    
    
  • Winter Wonders
    
    
• A glossary of sexual terms
  • Starting with letters A to C
  • Starting with letters M to P
  
  
• 2019-FEB: U.S. confidence in clergy drops. Clergy "sex abuse" summit meeting held in Vatican
  
  
• U.S. Abortion laws Utah during 2019: Bills to ban abortions of a fetus with Down Syndrome, and to ban almost all abortions after 18 weeks gestation
  
  
• 2017-NOV: Poll finds that 74% of Canadians support same-sex marriage
  
  
• Does religious involvement increase or decrease the suicide rate among LGBT youth?
  
  
• Lawsuit against a Colorado Baker who refused to make a custom cake for transgender customer was dropped
  
  
• Sea level rise due to Antarctic melting
  
  
• Chelsea Clinton says that Satanism "deserves our respect"
  
  
• A woman tells of her visit to Hell
  
  
• 2018-MAY/JUN: New Hampshire protects transgender persons in the state with an anti-discrimination law
  
  
• Attempting to calm distressed gays, or trying to convert gays into ex-gays via reparative therapy
  
  
• Utah House Judiciary Committee defangs reparative therapy bill
  
  
• An article donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys, about: "Yes, But..." responses like: "Yes .... is horrible. But they ...."
  
  
• 2017 to now: Trying to Convert Gays to Heterosexuals using Reparative Therapy. Laws prohibiting such therapy on minors.
  
  
• Impact of ban on transgender persons in the military, Part 11: 2018-NOV to 2019-MAR: Anti-Trump Light Show. Trump loses at District Court level, asks to bypass Courts of Appeal and go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. High Court activates ban.
  
  
• 2018-JUN: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that provincial law societies can refuse accreditation of university graduates
  
  
• 2019: UMC Conference votes to preserve discrimination against homosexuals. Some congregations react negatively
  
  
• New York State's Pro-Choice Reproductive Health Act
  
  
• 2019-MAR-11: Trump Administration's 2020 budget
  
  
• 2019-MAR-13: The Federal LGBT Equality Act
  
  
• 2018-NOV to 2019-MAR: Cost of transgender persons in the Military
  
  
• 2019-MAR: Mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand2019-MAR: Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4
  
  
• Female Genital Mutilation a.k.a. (FGM/C) in North America & Europe
  
  
• The "Garbage Eaters": common derogatory name for The Brethren: Part 1 Part 2
  
  
• West Virginia government sues Catholic Diocese concerning abuse of children
  
  
• 2018 & 2019: Trying to Convert Gays to Heterosexuals using Reparative Therapy. Laws. Online app's
  
  
• 2019-MAR: Priest stabbed at Mass in Montreal, Canada
  
  
• 2017-AUG: The Nazi/Alt-right/ White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville, VA
  
  
• The occult: Various viewpoints
  
  
• 2019-FEB: Pope Francis visits the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and signs the Human Fraternity Declaration with Sheikh Ah med
  Al-Tayeb, a leading Sunni Imam
  
  
• Climate Change, Part 32: 2019-JAN/FEB: Denmark fights cow flatulence
  
  
• 2018: Mississippi Legislature creates law to ban abortions after 15 weeks gestation. Law is overturned by a federal court
  
  
• 2014 to 2017 in Malta: Civil Unions and Same-sex Marriages

In addition, we make major and minor updates to many essays each day that are not recorded above:

2019-February's book selection:

"The INTRAfaith Conversation: How Do Christians Talk Among Ourselves About INTERfaith Matters " by Susan M. Strouse (Author), Megan Rohrer (Editor)

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Amazon.com book review:

The Intrafaith Conversation: How Do Christians Talk Among Ourselves About Interfaith Matters? by Susan M. Strouse is a guide for individuals and faith communities to explore what it means to be a Christian in a multifaith world. The Rev. Dr. Susan M. Strouse is currently the pastor at First United Lutheran Church in San Francisco.

New and updated essays:

This web site had 42 newly created, re-written, or significantly updated essays during 2019-FEB, including the above book review.

In addition, we make major and minor updates to many essays each day that are not recorded below:

• Three more proofs that the Earth is more or less spherical and not flat

• 2019-JAN/FEB: Vaccines, immunization programs, and potential epidemics

• Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day: About a groundhog's annual prophecy of the end of winter
  
  
• Abortion access: All sides of the issue
  
  
• New York's Reproductive Health Act (2019)
  
  
• Virginia's Late-term Abortion Bill
  
  
• Root Causes of Religious-Secular Conflicts, that Involve Abortion or LGBT Equality
  
  
• Conflicts Over Abortion Access
  
  
• 2017: Shooting at a mosque in Quebec shakes Canada. Part 4. The aftermath
  
  
• Scapegoating: The transferability of sin
  
  
• Can humans assess God's will through prayer?
  
  
• Essays donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys: Forgive us our Trespasses, Seeing Each Other in Dialogue, and Wise Words to Ponder at All Times: About Meeting Dissent With Courage
  
  
• About the Roman Catholic Church
  
  
• Past & present religious/ethical/moral conflicts: Some settled; some starting; some dissipating; Some low key; others very active
  
  
• Beliefs about evolution, creationism, etc.
  
  
• Conflicting quotations about the origins and development of the species, and of the Earth itself
  
  
• 2019-FEB: Bills in the Kansas Legislature concerning LGBT discrimination & same-sex mariage
  
  
• The "Caravan of Despair:" U.S. Government problems: Central American immigrants. Election fraud detected in North Carolina. 7-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol custody. Poll indicates "Government: as most important problem.
  
  
• An essay donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys about George Lakoff's book: "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think"
  
  
• A U.S. Court of Appeals rules in favor of President Trump's Ban on Transgender military. Intersexual individual seeks a different passport ID
  
  
• Monte Benson donated a series of essays on the Earth’s age and the text of Genesis 1 in the Bible. It was updated by this site's webmaster
  
  
• The rights of women, primarily in Saudi Arabia
  
  
• 1998 to now: The Worldwide Persecution of Christians
  
  
• Human rights laws in the U.S., Canada, other countries and UN Cpvenants: Part 1, Part 2
  
  
• 2018-2019: The tragedy of Missionary John Allen Chau's death at the hands of the Sentinelese people
  
  
• 2001 to now: Recent hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S
  
  
• Re-write or updated 12 essays dealing with Atheism
  
  
• U.S. confidence in Catholic clergy drops. Clergy "sex abuse" summit meeting held in Vatican. Part 6 of a series of essays on abuse of minors by Catholic priests
  
  
• Federal court issues ruling against all-male military draft
  
  
• Same-sex/gay marriage in Bermuda: made available, banned, and restored
  
  
• Gallup reports President Trump's approval/disapproval ratings
  
  
• Abortion laws in the U.S., Canada, & the rest of the world: Laws restricting/allowing abortion access, etc.
  
  
• 2019-MAR: Vaccines, immunization programs, and potential epidemics

This web site had 63 newly created, re-written, or significantly updated essays during 2019-JAN, including the above book review.

In addition, we make major and minor updates to many essays each day that are not recorded below:

• An article donated by Rabbi Allen S. Maller: New Genes For Ancient Hindus And Jews
  
  
• 2018-JUL to now: UMC Church's Continuing Conflicts. Bishops' Letter to the LGBT Community.
  
  
• Climate change & other environmental concerns: Available books (Cont'd)
  
  
• Religious/Ethical/Moral conflicts: 2018-9: Gun Control laws in the U.S.
  
  
• Can humans assess God's will through prayer?
  
  
• Concerns about the end of the world happening on 2012-DEC-21
  
  
• Prophecies of TEOTWAWKI: ("The End Of The World As We Know It")
  
  
• Climate Change, Part 32: Collecting plastic trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  
  
• Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in Pennsylvania, Germany, etc; Reactions: Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
  
  
• Evangelical Christians vs. Child Protection Law in Ontario, Canada
  
  
• Background material on Christmas ... Jesus and the first radio program.
  
  
• Transgender persons & transsexuals
  
  
• Proofs 15 to 23 that the Earth is not flat.
  
  
• A U.S. Court of Appeals rules in favor of President Trump's Ban of some Transgender persons from the Military (the Mattis Plan)
  
  
• U.S. healthcare 2017 to 2018 incl.: Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23
  
  
• Tentative future religious and spiritual book monthly recommentations: 2019-Febuary to 2019-July
  
  
• An article donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys: Small Men and FEAR!
  
  
• Climate Change. Part 32. Climate change at the start of 2019.
  
  
• Trump Administration plans to define all transgender persons in the U.S. out of existence. Reactions by by celebrities and transgender distress/crisis lines. Virginia teacher fired.
  
  
• Transgender/transsexual terminology
  
  
• Shared belief in the "Golden Rule" (a/k.a. Ethics of Reciprocity)
  
  
• Transgender children. Options that are available to transgender persons. Terminology. Is being transgender a "disorder?" (Part 4) (Part 5)
  
  
• An essay donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys: What is sufficient evidence to justify belief?
  
  
• The U.S. Supreme Court delivers a potentially devastating blow to transgender members of the military
  
  
• "When does human personhood begin?" -- at conception, when a heartbeat can be detected, at quickening, when the higher brain functions first turn on, at birth...."
  
  
• Transgender persons and transsexuals
  
  
• Environment, Climate Change and Global Warming and Ocean Level Rise (Menu and 27 essays)

2018-December's selection:

New and updated essays:

This web site had 50 newly created, re-written, or updated essays during 2018-DEC, including the above book review.
In addition, we make major and minor updates to many essays each day that are not recorded below:

• Climate Change. Part 30: During 2018-NOV: Trump Administration releases National Climate Assessment report. Reactions to the report. Hope for people who have no access to clean water
  
  
• Three essays donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys
  • The Ethics of Belief: dealing with the evidence needed that is sufficient to believe.
    
    
  • Globalization: cultural, religious, and economic
    
    
  • The Three Primal Processes, and how they work in the Universe
    
    
• 2018-NOV: The tragedy of Missionary John Allen Chau's death
  
  
• Beliefs about the nature of life after death
  
  
• Mass murder in a Pittsburgh synagogue (Part 2)
  
  
• The "Caravan of Despair:" Central American Migrants Traveling Towards the U.S.
  
  
• 2017-OCT to 2018-DEC: U.S. Healthcare: Pre-existing conditions
  
  
• How many Wiccans are there?
  
  
• Cardinal Gerhard Müller discusses abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic church
  
  
• An introduction to ancient & modern beliefs on salvation
  
  
• Modern rewrites of the Ten Commandments
  
  
• Overview of abortion: Part 3
  
  
• The Christmas wars (a.k.a. The December dilemma)
  
  
• Glossary of words and phrases starting with the letters "Ti" to "Tre"
  
  
• 2018-DEC-10: The 70th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
  
• 2017-AUG: The Nazi/Alt-right/ White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville, VA. President Trump's reaction
  
  
• School Shootings, mostly in North America: 2010-APR to 2018-MAR
  
  
• Major report on Arctic climate
  
  
• NY Catholic agency suspends adoptions
  
  
• Another NY Christian agency suspends all adoptions rather than serve same-sex couples
  
  
• An essay donated by Alton C. Thompson: Why Do We Celebrate Christmas?
  
  
• An article donated by Contributing Editor Susan Humphreys: ‘Tis the Season for Giving and "Taking"?
  
  
• 2018-0CT: Trump Administration is Planning to End Recognition of Every Transgender Person in the U.S. Overview of transgender persons as viewed by medical professionals and by religious/social conservatives
  
  
• 2018-0CT/DEC: Trump Administration's anti-transgender activity. Trans distress/support/crisis phone lines. Virginia teacher suspended
  
  
• Books on LGBT topics: Coming out of the closet. Building self esteem. Developing relationships
  
  
• Ohio anti-abortion bills during Years 2005 to 2018
  
  
• Other information about Santa Claus: Theology. Telling children about Santa. How Santa saved Christmas vacations. Changes some people want about Santa
  
  
• About the biblical story of Sodom & Gomorrah: Introduction
  
  
• U.S. Healthcare: Part 22 President Trump attacks Affordable Care Act. Democrats push "Medicare for All." Latest polls. Pre-existing conditions. President Trump's re-election poll. A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT: Court declares Obamacare law unconstitutional.
  
  
• The "Golden Rule" (a/k.a. the Ethics of Reciprocity):Books, videos, a poster, and T-shirts
  
  
• 2018-JUN to AUG: Scarlet Johansson to play movie role as a transgender woman. Miss Universe will have a transgender contestant. Trans women (D) run for VT Governor, and CO House, Court case in Anchorage, AK about transgender women in women's shelter, and changes to the Gender Recognition Act in the UK. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
  
  
• 2018-DEC: Conflict during a Catholic funeral of a teen who had committed suicide
  
  
• Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church about Suicide
  
  
• Being transgender, according to the Roman Catholic Church: Part 1 Part 2
  
  
• The Winter Solstice (on or about DEC-21): Ancient and recent celebrations, from Druids to Native Americans. Other Winter Solstice web sites
  
  
• Satan: All points of view
  
  
• Recent developments on the celebration of Christmas in the U.S.
  
  
• 2017-8: Religious freedom to discriminate: Colorado Baker also won't make a custom cake for transgender customer. Some evangelical groups seek compromise.
  
  
• Ireland Abortion law effective on 2019-JAN-01
  
  
• The Christmas Wars/ Dilemma: Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
  
  
• The Gospel of Q; All sides to the controversy
  
  
• The tragedy of Missionary John Allen Chau's death at the hands of the Sentinelese people
  
  
• Menu: Abortion access: All sides of the issue
  

2018-November's selection

"The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day" by Paul Carus

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Amazon.com book review:

"From ancient Egyptian religions to Judaism, Hinduism to Buddhism, Christianity to Islam, as well as many more, Carus analyses each religion in turn to expose their views of the devil and where those views came from.

He takes the reader from five thousand years ago through to near the present day to give a wide overview of changing views on good and evil and how different civilisations created varying ideas of the devil.

In the last five hundred years of history the devil has appeared to be marginalised as only a literary figure rather than a genuine fear, but Carus demonstrates how throughout the Reformation, the Inquisition and even the nineteenth century, fear of the devil was extremely real.

Paul Carus provides an extremely thorough survey of various ideas about the devil along with what is good and what is evil.

Carus was a pioneering author and thinker of the early twentieth century. He became the first managing editor of the Open Court Publishing Company which aimed to provide a forum for the discussion of philosophy, science, and religion, and to make philosophical classics widely available by making them affordable. As an author he published 75 books and 1500 articles. He died in Februrary 1919."

New and updated essays:

This web site had 40 newly created, re-written, or updated essays during 2018-NOV, including the above book review.
In addition, we make major and minor updates to many essays each day that are not recorded below:

• Four essays by contributing editor Susan Humphreys:
  • Moral Foundation Theory: Part 1, Part 2
    
    
  • A review of Stephen T. Asma's book: "Why We Need Religion"
    
    
  • What’s in a Name? Who is a Fascist? Who is not?
    
    
• An overview of the persecution of Jews for the past 2,000 years
  
  
• Anti-Judaism: from 1200 to 1800 CE
  
  
• Hell Houses at Halloween
  
  
• Three hate crimes with a racial & religious component, in Florida, Kentucky and Pennsylvania
  
  
• Mass murder in a Pittsburgh synagogue: Part 3 and Part 4
  
  
• Bisexuality: Does male bisexuality exist? Controversies over the word "choice." Part 3
  
  
• The Trump Administration:
  
  • UN Human Rights Council votes on executing LGBT persons. Kavanaugh sworn in as Associate Justice
    
    
  • Abortion case at Supreme Court. Midterm elections: Democrats control House. Impact on President Trump's impeachment
    
    
• The Peace Cross conflict in Bladensburg, Maryland
  
  
• Survey of U.S. adults' fears and Paranormal beliefs
  
  
• Proofs 15 to 22 that the Earth is not flat. What does the public believe its shape is?
  
  
• Who is/was the "advocate" mentioned in John 16:5-11?
  
  
• The fate of the "Peace Cross" in Bladensburg, MD