Redemption for All Us Beautiful Sinners

Nadia Bolz-Weber knows her audience, whether for her books or her public appearances. The audience wants affirmation. They want to be seen. They want to tell their stories. They want to share how her writing touched them. They want advice.

In her interview with Editor Holli Sharp in the October 2020 issue of Science of Mind magazine, Bolz-Weber says her priority when meeting with audiences is to be emotionally present and as genuine as possible.

She admits to being obsessed with redemption and compassion – the idea of human transformation being possible. “I just talk about grace and human failings and forgiveness,” she says, “and that’s all I’ve ever really talked about.” In her latest book, Shameless, she examines the origins of shame.

Bolz-Weber is an outspoken advocate for the dignity that is each individual’s birthright and the healing power of God’s grace.

The Cosmic Sea

“There is One Life.  That Life is God. That Life is my life.” Can you hear our founder, Dr. Ernest Holmes, when you read this phrase?

In the October 2020 issue of Science of Mind magazine, Rev. Stephen Rambo says Holmes uses this phrase to remind us “that the one unitive Presence, Life, is not diminished or in any way reduced by multiplicity. In fact, Life is amplified by variation.

“We live and flourish when a world filled with diversity is celebrated for its variety,” he writes. “Yet humans have made a practice of separating and dividing themselves into tribes, camps, cities, states, nationalities and other forms of separation.”

Rambo challenges readers to do more than “imagine another way of thinking. Now is the time,” he writes, “to lie more fully in the truth of our inextricably connected One Life. …

“Our charge is to do the deeper work of building new bridges over our troubled water. When we talk about creating a world that works for everyone, the conversation must not avoid topics of race, history, our past and the wounds resulting from that history. We cannot build bridges that last while fearing our differences will erupt in misunderstanding.”

As Rambo insists, now is the time.

Find the Light at the Center

By Ernest Holmes

There is a light at the center of everything. You can see that light.

The mystics, or those who were illumined, all had an experience in common: They saw the Cosmic Light. That is why it is said they were illumined. They all had much to same experience. … The mystics all sensed this light. And we all do at times. In varying degrees, we enter into this mystical sense, this illumination. …

The mystics, having seen the light, were never the same afterward, but they were perfectly normal human beings. There was an added something, an atmosphere about them, that everyone felt. It is that atmosphere we sense about people who are evolved spiritually. They have a sense of calm and certain contact with reality that all people arrive at to some degree.

There is such a light at the center of everything. … There is a light at the center of everyone. … Each of us should seek that beam of light within and follow it to the great Light – the Light in everything.

Excerpted from Cosmic Light by Ernest Holmes.