Progressive Spirituality - Universal Life Church Monastery Blog
February 22nd, 2022
If God can be in schools after hours, why not Satan? Parents in Illinois were shocked when their kids brought home flyers for an after-school 'Satan Club', but The Satanic Temple says their event is perfectly legal.
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June 4th, 2021
One Christian group recently gave a rather creepy warning: don't try to communicate with the dead. Whether by seance or Ouija board, they say the consequences of trying to make contact with the other side could be dire.
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June 1st, 2021
A new study shows that Christianity is losing ground in a big way with young people, as they embrace alternative ways of looking at the world. Magic, astrology, tarot - Millennials are turning to everything except God.
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April 22nd, 2021
Is manmade climate change a hoax, or science fact? Evangelicals largely don't believe that global warming is real, but some evangelical environmentalists are on a mission to get skeptics to see the light.
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December 14th, 2020
Christmas used to be a holiday solely focused on the celebration of the birth of Christ. But Jesus has been supplanted by a new figure: Santa Claus. Many religious parents struggle with how to handle this reality.
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June 5th, 2020
A meme going around seems to imply that our turbulent 2020 - impeachment, pandemic, racism, civil unrest - is written in the cosmos, discernable by astrologists who understand the zodiac. But is astrology actually real?
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February 26th, 2020
Chances are you've heard of crystal healing: putting different crystals on different parts of your body to cure maladies as varied as anxiety, aches or pains, or lack of libido. Does this New Age technique actually work?
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December 5th, 2019
Back by popular First Amendment demand, the great gift of satanic knowledge will be shared for the second year running at the Illinois State Capitol rotunda. And once again, some religious lawmakers are not pleased.
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November 18th, 2019
You’ve heard of the "War on Christmas," but this year the battle has apparently opened up a second front. That’s right: the "War on Thanksgiving" has begun. See what kicked it off, and where we're likely to go from here.
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