Weekly Messages

We become like the God we worship. That's a good thing...  if our Story about God is healthy. But from time to time, it becomes quite toxic. When that happens, we need to do some rethinking. So lets... Abraham is the father of all Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He...

I get distracted. I bet you do too. Emails, car repair, conflicts that need to be resolved, books that need to be read. And sometimes when we get distracted, the things we deem most important can get away from us. And that's true for you and me. And it's true for the...

If we don't think about the end of a thing, we rarely get the beginning or middle right. If we don't think about where a journey is going, we rarely point ourselves in the right direction. A lot of words are said in our religion. A lot of energies are focused. A lot...

History is a funny thing. People tend to remain the same, but cultures don't. As Christians, we have missed an important part of our history. We started in a Middle-Eastern, Hebrew worldview, but around 325 AD, we migrated into a Greco-Roman one. And scriptures...

We long for a world (albeit an impractical one) where everyone gets along and there are no wars or suffering. We comfort ourselves about not having this as our reality by turning Jesus into a "poet". His words are often interpreted almost as if they were dreams or...

I'm going on a walk.  (details). The purpose of the walk is the ancient practice of solitude. It is one of the contemplative practices we talk about that works with the deconstructive process that is part of the Journey to Oneness. Have a listen, Doug  

If the death to ego-as-self is an inevitable part of the spiritual journey, is there a way we could work with it, instead of resisting it when it comes? I think so. Have a listen. Doug  

On the journey to oneness, we've seen three movements we go through. Today we tell the story of Joseph through the lens of these three way-stations on the journey. Have a listen, Doug  

My friend lost his son to leukemia. People said something died in him when that happened. They were right. Have a listen, Doug  

This is our last week on stage 1 of the journey to oneness. In this lesson we talk about some of the texture of the life required to develop the interior fortitude we need in the further reaches of the journey.  More on the curriculum of virtue, and the demands of...

There's more to say about the first way-station on our journey to oneness. We Americans have a certain disdain for tradition; "the way it's always done." This has made us who we are and has many, many benefits.  But every gift has a dark side. Have a listen, Doug...

"False-Self." We use that term a lot at NRCC. It has to do with making the negative effects of framing the ego as the self. Self, it turns out, is too expansive a reality to be contained in the thoughts we think, the feelings we have, the personalities we were born...

Jesus was hard to understand. So hard, it got him killed. Let's be real...  he was kind of weird: - speak to the mountain, and you can put it in the sea - love the people who hurt you - and so forth So what's a follower of Jesus to do? Have a listen, Doug...