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What’s Your Spiritual Story: Abigail’s Confessions on Childhood, Time, and Spiritual Awakening
Abbie is in California this week for health treatments. She asks me to send the video below, where she and her husband, Jerry L. Martin from God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, discuss her early life from childhood’s moments of truth … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal, Coming-of-Age Spirituality, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, existentialism, feminine identity, Moral Idealism, Philosophy and Faith, spiritual autobiography, Spiritual crisis, Time and Impermanence, What’s Your Spiritual Story, women philosophers
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“Ain’t I a Person?”
“Ain’t I a Person?” What’s a person? Am I a person? All the time? Is God? What’s going on when people say yes or no to questions like that? Jerry and I were in D.C. this week to celebrate the … Continue reading
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