The Cosmic Citizen

The MIRACLES of Jesus  From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book Religion is never enhanced by an appeal to the so-called miraculous. The quest for miracles is a harking back to the primitive religions of magic. True religion has nothing to do with alleged miracles, and never does revealed religion point to miracles as proof of authority. Religion...

We continue with the third episode in our four-part series on the Cosmic Citizen on the 12 apostles of Jesus of Nazareth.  After exploring the first four apostles, we turn to Philip "the Curious," Matthew Levi—the "tax collector," "Honest" Nathaniel, and Thomas Didymus.  These four knew not Jesus of Nazareth as well as the first four.  So what attracted them to Jesus? Our intention is then to stud...

What is Prayer?  From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book Prayer and its associated worship is a technique of detachment from the daily routine of life, from the monotonous grind of material existence. It is an avenue of approach to spiritualized self-realization and individuality of intellectual and religious attainment. Prayer is the breath of t...

We continue the second episode in our four-part series on the Cosmic Citizen on the 12 apostles of Jesus of Nazareth.  After exploring Andrew and Simon Peter, we next turn to James and John Zebedee—the "sons of thunder."  These Galilean fisherman and sons of a boat builder were a fascinating contrast to each other.  Who were these men?  What did they admire so much about Jesus of Nazareth that the...

The Story of Jesus  From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the mercifu...

Quiz time cosmic citizens! Have you ever wondered about the 12 apostles?  Who were these twelve men?  What they admired so much about Jesus of Nazareth that they continued to follow him even when the multitudes dropped away?  What attracted them to Jesus? The Cosmic Citizen undertakes a four-part series on these twelve men who obeyed the injunction command of Joshua ben Joseph when he said to each...

An Investigation into The N.T. Bible The Story of Jesus #3 From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book We find the names of the 12 apostles in Matthew 10:2-4, Mark 3:14-19, and Luke 6:13-16: And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and...

This week hosts Paula Thompson, Christilyn Biek Larson, and André Radatus explore the fourth installment in this series on the ideals surrounding a solid spiritual culture in families. Highly successful and happy families starts with a foundation of spiritual culture and consistent family practices contributing to the welfare of each member and the family as a whole. What does The Urantia Book hav...

The Story of Jesus Choosing the Apostles #2 From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book Before the six Apostles began this first two weeks of service, Jesus announced to them that he desired to ordain twelve apostles to continue the work of the kingdom after his departure and authorized each of them to choose one man from among his early converts for...

This week hosts Paula Thompson, Christilyn Biek Larson, and André Radatus explore the third installment in this series on the ideals surrounding a solid spiritual culture in families. Highly successful and happy families starts with a foundation of spiritual culture and consistent family practices contributing to the welfare of each member and the family as a whole. What does The Urantia Book have...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible The Story of Jesus Choosing the Apostels and his "1st Miracle" From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book 1. The apostles learned from Jesus about the kingdom of heaven, and Jesus learned much from them about the kingdom of men, human nature as it lives on Earth. These twelve men represented many differe...

A high, successful, and happiness-promoting family spiritual culture starts with a foundation in good principles and consistent family practices contributing to the welfare of each member and the family as a whole. This week hosts Paula Thompson, Christilyn Biek Larson, and André Radatus explore the second installment in this series on the roots and ideals surrounding a solid family spiritual cult...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible The Story of Jesus  40 Days in The Wilderness From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book Jesus had endured the great temptation of his mortal bestowal before his baptism when he had been on Mount Hermon for six weeks. After his baptism he entered upon the forty days of adjusting himself to the changed re...

This week hosts Paula Thompson, Christilyn Biek Larson, and André Radatus explore Creating Family Spiritual Culture and The Urantia Book; a new series on The Cosmic Citizen. What does The Urantia Book have to say on the topic of religion and family culture? We'll study various places in the Book which speak about family and how to transmit family religious or spiritual culture to children. Many Ur...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible The Story of Jesus Why was John the Baptist Necessary? From 3 perspectives * The Biblical World View * The Academic/Scholastic Narrative * The Urantia Book's perspective Today we return to the Story of Jesus as outlined in the NT Bible.  In this episode we invetigate John The Baptist: who was he and why was he necessary to the Public Ministry of Jesus....

This Saturday on The Cosmic Citizen we're continuing our interview with Larry Mullins and will be joined by his wife and creative collaborator, Joan Batson Mullins. Joan and Larry started creating their book: Chronicle of the Life and Teachings of Jesus ... The Greatest News Stories, 7 BC to AD 30  together over 22 years. During that time this dynamic duo pursued other projects together including...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible The Story of Jesus Return From ROME From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book   The New Testament’s  “Story of Jesus, ” has a Black Hole of time and activity, from the ages of  12 years old to approx.. 30 of Jesus' life.    Today, THE END of the  tour of the Roman world consumed most of the twenty-eight...

This Saturday we're privileged to interview Larry Mullins and Joan Batson Mullins on The Cosmic Citizen. About 22 years ago, Joan and Larry began a journey together, creating a book: “Chronicle of the Life and Teachings of Jesus ... The Greatest News Stories, 7 BC to AD 30.”  They wanted a means to teach younger Urantians about Jesus with “real time” news stories that were seemingly reported almos...

An Investigation into The New Testament BibleThe Story of Jesus: The " LOST YEARS" From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book   The New Testament’s  “Story of Jesus, ” has a Black Hole of time and activity, from the ages of  12 years old to approx.. 30 of Jesus' life.    Today, THE tour of the Roman world consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the e...

This week we offer another reprise, in honor of 5 years of weekly broadcasts of The Cosmic Citizen on Blogtalkradio.com. Over 150,000 listens, featured hosting, amazing guests, and great shows (Symmetry of Soul, Spiritual Engineering and God's Gumshoe) that have spun off as a result of The Cosmic Citizen, are all reasons to celebrate!  So please take a listen and enjoy the second broadcast of our...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible The Story of Jesus: The " LOST YEARS" From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book   The New Testament’s  “Story of Jesus, ” has a Black Hole of time and activity, from the ages of  12 years old to approx.. 30 of Jesus' life.    Today, THE tour of the Roman world consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible The Story of Jesus   The " LOST YEARS" From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book The New Testament’s  “Story of Jesus, ” has a Black Hole of time and activity, from the ages of  12 years old to approx.. 30 of Jesus' life.  On one page of the Gospel of Luke Jesus is 12 years old in the Temple in Jerusale...

This episode is a REPRISE of an earlier broadcast of the Cosmic Citizen on September 18, 2010.  Our hosts are enjoying some vacation and hope to be back with you for some exciting new interviews and studies of the papers in two or three weeks.  Please do not call in.  The electrons are dancing but not answering.  :-) Doug Paggit was our guest speaker to discuss his then new book, Church in the Inv...

An Investigation into The New Testament Bible The Story of Jesus: The " LOST YEARS" From 3 perspectives * The Biblical world viiew * The Academic/Scholastic * The Urantia Book The New Testament’s  “Story of Jesus, ” has a Black Hole of time and activity, from the ages of  12 years old to approx.. 30 of Jesus' life.  On one page of the Gospel of Luke Jesus is 12 years old in the Temple in Jerusalem...

This show is an archived REPRISE edition of The Cosmic Citizen.  It originally broadcast on June 30, 2012.  Please do not call in. Last summer Paula Thompson and Christilyn Biek-Larson interviewed author and long-time student of The Urantia Book, Larry Mullins, on his thorough and revealing research in his book entitled, A History of The Urantia Papers; now in its 2nd edition. We explored some iss...