This week I talked with Rev. Richard Emmanuel founder of The Church, a non-profit organization established in 1968 in East Gloucester, MA that is dedicated to raising individual & collective consciousness while increasing spiritual awareness. I called on Emmanuel a visionary & dedicated political activist to give us his brutally honest spin on where our world may be headed in 2024. With religious wars raging in Middle East & the war in Ukraine among others, we are confronted with a global humanitarian crisis. Rev. Emmanuel addresses the fact that Christianity, Judaism & Islam are at war with one another causing a younger generation to become both weary of global conflict & wary of hierarchical institutions. Currently in this country we’re under attack by white national domestic terrorists, fending off over 600 anti LGBTQ bills in states across the country, women’s rights are on the chopping block & antisemitism is on the rise all as we head into the 2024 election. Emmanuel questions the uncomfortable truths that western religions continue the patriarchal myth that males are superior to the females of the human species. Richard also approaches the human experience as a life cycle of 4 stages. The cycle mirrors the planetary earth seasons consisting of Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter as the four phases of being human as in childhood, young adulthood, middle age & elder-hood. I talked to Rev. Emmanuel about how we can regain a sense of humanity in a world spiraling downward & his spin on our LGBTQ issues.
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