It was a hot St. Louis summer and I was trying to teach Metaphysics to a classroom of undergrads. I heard giggling from somewhere in the room, right after I had announced that the homework assignment was an essay on “the God problem”. I repeated the assignment, and again heard the same tinkling of laughter. […]
Dr. Ron Miller speaks at the Theosophical Society in America in 2007 on the Gospel of Thomas. To the many subcategories of Christianity, we can now add the “Thomas Believer.” That’s what Ron calls himself and other devotees of the Gospel of Thomas, a collection of Jesus’ sayings that have been circulating since the 19th
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A man enjoys sex with a male prostitute while using a mind-altering substance. There seems to be nothing newsworthy about such a statement. It’s happening everday all over the world. But when the man is an ordained minister, the pastor of a church, and the president of a national religious body, as well as a
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Dr. Ron Miller speaks at the Theosophical Society in America in 2006 on the Jewish-Christian rift. Judaism and Christianity have had a volatile relationship in their two-thousand-year history. Anger, rivalry, insensitivity, bloodshed and murder have marred the special connection these two Abrahamic faiths share. In the last several decades, scholars, activists, laypeople and clergy have
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