A Higher Gear

  “The intellectual factors of religion are important, but their over­de­vel­op­ment is likewise sometimes very handicapping and embarrassing.” — The Urantia Book     In a thrift store recently I saw a framed sign for sale. I didn’t buy it, but remembered it.  It said:                           Life is a test.                         It is only a test.                         If it had …

THE SOCIAL VALUE OF WAR

[quicktime]https://www.urantiansojourn.com/wp-content/uploads/video/WariPhone-iPhone.m4v[/quicktime] IN THE PAST, a fierce war would bring about social changes and facilitate the adoption of new ideas, such as would not have occurred naturally in ten thousand years. But the terrible price paid for these certain advantages was that society was temporarily thrown back into savagery; civilized reason had to abdicate. War is strong medicine, incredibly costly and …