The Cosmic Citizen

This week we continue with Paper 196 of The Urantia Book - The Faith of Jesus. In the past three weeks we've had some amazing callers like Jim McNelly, Will Sherwood, Annette Crawford and Chuck Thurston, who discussed this remarkable paper with us. We covered the sublime faith of Jesus and the importance of Jesus' humanity. We explored the value of the religion of Jesus, the religion of personal s...

This week we continue our exploration of Paper 196 of The Urantia Book, The Faith of Jesus. Some thoughts to ponder: Christianity is founded on the personal religious experience of Paul, but the gospel of the kingdom is founded on the personal religious experience of Jesus. We should not literally imitate Jesus' life; we need to trust God as Jesus trusts God and to believe in each other as he beli...

This week we will continue to read and study Paper 196 of The Urantia Book, The Faith of Jesus. It is the exquisite capstone of a literary masterpiece on the life and teachings of Jesus and a magnificent summation of Jesus' faith. Jesus magnificently demonstrated living faith in God. He never doubted the certainty of God's watch care. His faith was not merely intellectual; it was a profound convic...

We can't think of a better way to start the new year than with the final paper of The Urantia Book,  Paper 196 - The Faith of Jesus! We want to give particular emphasis in this episode to his life of unselfish service. Paper 196 is the exquisite capstone of a literary masterpiece on the life and teachings of Jesus and what a magnificent summation The Faith of Jesus provides for an epochal revelati...

This week, in honor of Christmas we will continue our talk with another Urantia Book student who is passionately engaged in sharing the Urantia Book's teachings of Jesus with the broadest possible audience. Join us this week as we explore this topic together with our good friend, David Kantor. Jesus repeatedly told his followers to take his message of the kingdom to the world. He exhorted them to...

The authors of The Urantia Book state that their purpose in producing the narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus was to utilize and to some extent co-ordinate the existing records having to do with his life. This can be clearly observed in their accounts of his parables. Jesus' parables are as well-known to Bible readers as they are to readers of The Urantia Papers. They have been fairly wel...

Paper 159 of The Urantia Book is called The Decapolis Tour. This paper is, of course, from The Life and Teachings of Jesus. Jesus has just had his monumental meeting with Gabriel and Father Melchizedek on the Mount of Transfiguration after which he pivots away from teaching the Jews in Judea to teaching the Gentiles in places like the Greek cities of the Decapolis. Section 4 of Paper 159 is called...

Nadi Burton, our guest this week on Cosmic Citizen, was born in Harlem New York and raised in a Christian household. He rebelled as a teen and ran away from home and though he spent some years as a troubled and confused youth, at the ripe old age of eighteen, he made what was for him the supreme decision to find God; It has become the driving ambition of his life. Nadi became hungry to find and st...

This week we continue our discussion on the parental nature of God, more especially the concept of God the Mother based on The Urantia Book's teaching of the Supreme. We've invited to consummate teachers and Urantian scholars to share their thoughts with us on this topic of the Mother Supreme. Dr. Chris Halvorson, who will be with us for the entire show and Mr. David Kulieke, who can spend part of...

The Parental Nature of God: This week, in the vein of the shows we did on Divine Fatherhood and Motherhood, we will explore why the Urantia Book uses such parental or gender specific designations in its descriptions of Deity when we are told that there is no sex/gender (as we understand it) involved with the First Source and Center or the Trinity personalities. Why is it important to think of God...

Experiencing & Proclaiming the Motherhood of God! This week features a show on The Motherhood of God.  We know we are the Children of God, but gratefully, we are not the children of a single-parent universe. We literally do have two Divine Parents - a Spirit Father and a Spirit Mother. More and more women in spiritual community are heeding the call to minister to their sisters around the world...

This week on Cosmic Citizen (www.blogtalkradio.com/cosmiccitizen) we will be talking about the recent Parliament of World Religions which took place in Salt Lake City UTAH a few weeks ago. There were more than 100 Urantia Book Students present at the Parliament with several booths. Among them were representatives from: The Urantia Foundation, The Urantia Book Fellowship, The UAI, Truthseekers, 1Go...

We invite you to join this week's guest, Verner Verass, to discuss cosmic fatherhood. Verner is a 40-plus-year reader who grew up in Australia, the son of Latvian emigrants. A father of four adult children, he knows the value and trials of parenting. Arguably, The Urantia Book 's and Jesus’ saving keynote message—the gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man—puts a premium on the...

On this episode of The Cosmic Citizen, cohost, André Radatus, Dave Tucker, and Kermit Anderson explore the many facets of ministry as revealed in The Urantia Book. Our host, Paula Thompson, and cohost, Christilyn Biek Larson, are both off this week. Dave Tucker is a regular contributor at 1GOD.com, YouTube, and serves as a member of The Urantia fellowship's Outreach committee. He aims to spread Go...

On this episode of The Cosmic Citizen, cohost, André Radatus and Dave Tucker explore the nature of ministry as revealed in The Urantia Book.  Our host, Paula Thompson, and cohost, Christilyn Biek Larson, are both off this week and next. Dave Tucker is a regular contributor at 1GOD.com, YouTube, and serves as founder of Good Cheer Services, and as a member of The Urantia fellowship's Outreach commi...

Cosmic Citizen Welcomes Internationally Acclaimed Medical Herbalist and Nutritional Consultant Brigitte Mars! This week we are excited to welcome Brigitte Mars back to the Cosmic Citizen show, to help us explore what The Urantia Book has to say about natural health and healing. Brigitte is an internationally acclaimed medical herbalist and nutritional consultant, the author of 13 books and 10 DVDs...

Ben Bowler, founder of 1GOD.com and Director of Word Weavers in Melbourne; and Derek Grimm, Technical Director of 1GOD.com and Director of GrongTech Web Solutions in Perth,  join the show to talk about the upcoming launch of 1GOD.com at the Parliament of World’s Religions. 1GOD.com (http://www.1GOD.com) 1GOD.com is a platform dedicated to promoting the idea that God is bigger than any and all our...

This week on the Cosmic Citizen we will feature return guests Diane Labrecque, Justin Michael and Pato Banton who will be discussing their upcoming joint venture, a gathering of three Urantia organizations. This festival will be a TRIUNITY GATHERING for The United Urantia Family, Minister Pato Banton's Spiritual Family & Urantia Sacred Arts. The theme will beEXPLORING OUR SPIRITUAL UNITY! Dian...

This week we'll interview Tim Hobbs, the owner of DataConnect Corporation in Centennial, Colorado, and a board member of the Small Giants organization. Why would a business person want to hear about Small Giants? Because every conversation, discussion, event, best practice, workshop and conference is defined by shared values. Because you want to do your part to change how the business world define...

REPRISE: This week's show features author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists, Brian D. McLaren. Brian's groundbreaking books include A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, and Everything Must Change. Named by Time magazine as one of America's top twenty-five evangelicals, McLaren has appeared on Nightline...

John Creger is a veteran English teacher and classroom researcher at American High School in Fremont CA. He continually seeks new ways to engage his students more deeply in learning. This stems from his own dissatisfaction with shallow teachings and from his fortuitous discovery of the Urantia Book in his 20s. The book brought him proof of what he had felt all along--this is no shallow universe. W...

What could have more core meaning and value to us than our primary relationships? This week our guests are Phil and Maude. Phil and Maude Mayes live in Santa Barbara, California, having started in London, England and New York City respectively. Phil is a software engineer, voice over artist and photographer, and Maude works with adults with developmental disabilities. They have been writing and sp...

This week on the Cosmic Citizen we will be discussing core values in the context of The Urantia Book's teachings.  One of the core values that emerged from our shows on bullying was the idea of being an upstander rather than a bystander. Being an upstander means valuing courage. Courage is a core value. Truth, beauty and goodness are also three foundational values frequently expounded upon in The...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible From 3 perspectives * The Biblical Worldview * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book.. This living faith of Jesus was more than an intellectual reflection, and it was not a mystic meditation.  Theology may fix, formulate, define, and dogmatize faith, but in the human life of Jesus faith was personal, living, original, spontaneous, and purely spiri...

Two weeks ago we had Dr. Stephen Finlan as our guest, he spoke on bullying in the churches and about his new book Bullying in the Churches. Last week we featured author Kristen Caven, who co-wrote The Bullying Antidote: Superpower Your Kids for Life  with her mom, Dr. Louise Hart. We talked with qualified experts who have researched and helped thousands of people to deal with bullies, but this wee...