Universal Connections & Friends – A Free Virtual Workshop

November 19, 2024

A Free Virtual Workshop on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 from 8-9:30pm CT

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Online ‘Universal Connections’ Workshops

March 23, 2024

Do you want a safe place to make more life-affirming and life-sustaining connections in your life?Join us Saturdays or Sundays in April 3:00-5:00pm CT for online Universal Connections workshops!

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The Untrolling Project

March 5, 2024

I saw fellow sojourners, compatriots—tens of millions of “normal” high-functioning, “successful” Americans across our partisan divides and cultural-battle warfare lines—who were injured souls, just like me. Our personal histories differed but not what all of us had in common: our brains working overtime to ensure our survival.

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Sermon ‘Love After Love’

August 26, 2020

Sermon “Love After Love” delivered at First Unitarian Church of Dallas.

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Deep Soul Diving

May 18, 2019

Each stillpoint between my inhalation and exhalation of breath becomes the portal to infinite, unending life. This open, eternal timeless place of infinite life embraces me and I feel held, loved, cherished by life itself.

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Thandeka’s Interview with Westar Institute: Paul’s Brain Science of Emotions

January 26, 2019

Modern science may reveal things that Paul understood at an instinctive level—things that we can see now with much greater clarity. Using the tools of affective neuroscience, Thandeka examines Paul’s first-century attempt to teach selfless love, demonstrating how this love relates to human psychology, and asking if selfless love is the true value and future of religion.

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Why Love Beyond Belief Today?

October 2, 2018

Progressives lack the intensity, resources, and infrastructure. We suffer from this deficit disorder because most of us treat religion like good or bad ideas. Religion is really about feelings.

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Watch the Blackbird

March 21, 2018

The brain science behind this “new science of political emotions” was invented by political scientists who argued that voters may forget the information they initially learned about the candidate, but they will hold onto their emotional attitudes.

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It Takes a Community

March 17, 2018

Meet up and form a Love Beyond Belief™ community where music and words combine to rock souls, nurture hearts, and clarify minds.

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