Rabbi Brian On Inner Peace

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In episode # 128, Dr. Reese sits down with Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer, a spiritual director, author and leader of an online open-minded community called Religion Outside the Box. In this interview, they talk about the GOD of your understanding and how the baggage of language and meaning can play a factor in someones belief. They also discuss the power of surrender, the 21-day no complaint challenge, the significance of the book of Deuteronomy, and the obvious place GOD would place a treasure map for humans. Plus – What are the 7 things that qualify a mystical experience?

A Friday Night Tradition

December 14, 2025

Religiously. Every Friday night, religiously, I do a particular tradition. I do the same ritual religiously every Friday night. I’m not misusing the word religiously to mean fanatically, as in the improper use of it in the sentence: She exercises religiously. I use the word religiously as it should be used—with more positive connotations—as in calmly, forgivingly, without rushing. So,

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Loving Enemies

December 5, 2025

Thoughts on loving our enemies ✧✧✧ Three Saturday Services in a row the group and I interacted around the topic of loving our enemies. Here are some thoughts related to our discussion. ✧✧✧ The “Love your enemies” trope is famously attributed to Jesus — in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere. > Love your enemies, do good to those

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Oh, Honey.

November 27, 2025

Fall, 2025 I’m sitting in my favorite chair in the living room. The sky is getting darker. It’s almost dusk. I check the time: 4:40 p.m. The dark starts early these days. Especially in the Pacific Northwest. I make a mental note to take my vitamin D in the morning. ✧✧✧ Most weeks I get a bit panicked that I

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