BY HARV BISHOP This week the shit got real. Along with the unprecedented suspending of major league basketball games, shuttering the lights of Broadway, and closing hundreds of college campuses, churches of all denominations from New Thought to Catholic, are making the tough decision to cancel in-person services and go online. This move did…
New Thought’s #MeToo Moment Gathers Speed BY HARV BISHOP New Thought, and more specifically Religious Science, is overdue for a #MeToo moment. That moment is beginning as more former and current practitioners (prayer counselors) come forward to describe cruel treatment at the places of worship they serve. In response, ministers and practitioners are examining hard…
BY JIM LOCKARD “It takes a great deal of change to keep things the same.” ~ Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles I choose to see New Thought as a set of spiritual principles and practices which relate to those principles. The principles are eternal (the language used to convey them changes over time),…
By Harv Bishop All life and consciousness evolves says Rev. Chris Terry and New Thought needs to change to address the ecological and social challenges of our time. In an earlier interview on this blog Terry called for an evolution of New Thought, what she calls New Thought 3.0. Terry is a Religious Science minister…
By Harv Bishop New Thought adherents can get caught in a narrow spirituality based on “I want it to feel good all the time and I want to have what I want,” says Religious Scientist Rev. Chris Terry. “There’s so much more to spirituality,” she says, “including compassion, humility, grace, surrender, mystery, wonder. We’ve got…
