by TomHuening | Oct 8, 2013 | John Kelly: Quintessential Good Samaritan
A driving-force issue for John Kelly (Samaritan) is restorative justice. What is it and why should we care? Restorative justice works to solve individual harms and violations of legal and human rights. It is increasingly used within the criminal and juvenile justice...
by TomHuening | Oct 1, 2013 | Books & Reading, Spiritual Choices
Spiritual Choices: Putting the HERE in the Hereafteris now available on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble booksellers. Half of the proceeds ($10) will be used to create a scholarship in John Kelly’s...
by TomHuening | Sep 22, 2013 | Spiritual Choices
Spiritual, but not religious seems to be the growing trend. According to a recent PEW survey, the number of Americans who claim “no particular religion” has grown from 7% to 14% in the 1990’s to nearly 20% today. Even more dramatically, “(… fully a third of those ages...
by TomHuening | Sep 22, 2013 | Spiritual Choices
John Shelby Spong, former Episcopal Bishop says that there is no such thing as an “inerrant Bible” or an “infallible pope.” He points out that the New Testament Bible was written by people interpreting and expressing their experience of the life and death of an... by TomHuening | Sep 21, 2013 | Spiritual Choices
Noted athiest Sam Harris says there is no such thing. I disagree. Harris says that based on our IQ, brain chemistry and our ‘nurture,” (that is our environment growing up), that we are predestined to act the way we act. He says we have choices but maintains that we do...