I’ve attended ceremonies in a number of religious communities to welcome in new babies.

Not so terribly long ago the U.S. was shocked and horrified when a man used multiple high-powered rifles and vast quantities of ammunition to shoot out of his hotel window at the crowd below as they attended a country music festival.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other. —Eric Burdon

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The individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil has need, first and foremost, of self-knowledge—that is, in the utmost possible knowledge of their own wholeness.

Those of you who went to Sunday school or Hebrew school when you were kids may have happy images in your head of Noah and the Ark...

We gather to praise the Earth, to honor the soil, the sea, the swimmers and crawlers, the four-leggeds and the winged ones...

Dear Mother Earth, You are the great Earth, you are Terra, you are Gaia; you are this infinitely beautiful blue planet.

On Christmas Day, 1832, Ralph Waldo Emerson, newly resigned from the burdensome constraints of ministry, rather impulsively boarded a freighter bound for Malta. He had declared in writing: “I will not see with others’ eyes…. I would be free.”

The CLF strives to inspire all to embrace the power of purpose and love here on earth.