Face it: Jesus set the bar pretty high. No divorce; love your enemies; turn the other cheek; blessed are the poor in spirit. He was teaching absolute principle, but isn’t there a loophole somewhere?

The Declaration of Independence is one long affirmation that set an unequivocal intention long before America was free.

The pain-body is Eckhart Tolle’s term for all the wounds and baggage we carry around with us, some of it individual and some based on gender, ethnicity or family history. We’ve all got our "stuff," but we are not required to live with it forever.

In honor of Father’s Day, Ellen and Laura talk about how to practice principle in parent-child relationships once the kids are all grown up!

Principle Five moves us into action, taking what we know about spiritual principle and using it in our lives. But notice that action is the last move we make, after a lot of effort to line up our energy with our good. And even then, we wait for inspiration.

The fourth of Unity’s Five Principles is about prayer and meditation. It’s one of the ways we remain aware of our oneness with Source or Spirit. But what most people consider prayer is just elaborate worrying.

Now that we know we’re divine beings living on earth, we explore how to handle all that power! We get to create our experience with our thoughts and feelings, knowing that whatever we focus on will expand. It’s a big responsibility!

The second of Unity’s Five Principles is the divinity of human beings. We are expressions of God on earth and inherently good. Then why do so many humans behave badly?

Ellen and Laura begin a series on Unity’s Five Basic Principles, based on Ellen’s new book, The Five Principles: A Guide to Practical Spirituality. The first is that God is all there is, One Presence and One Power. But does that mean even the bad stuff is God?

In honor of Mother’s Day, co-host Laura Shepard lets loose with more of her amazing advice about parenting. She’s not just a cool mom, she’s the un-mom. Find out how freeing it could be for you and your children if you learned how to un-mother.