Bruce Backman

Twenty years ago I taught a seminar on the “new age” movement. It was a fascinating topic to me as I saw many people in Los Angeles (where I lived at the time) embrace the theories that human evolution would bring about a “new age” for  humanity and the world.   Much of these theories [...]

Where is God? There are probably as many answers to this question as there are religious constructs and possibly even people out there. Is there a more important question in life? I don’t think so. I simply want to open up a conversation about this. I received a message from a young man who is [...]

About  a month ago I had one of those “AHA” moments that you get from time to time. I had been going through a significant period of evaluating my strengths, weaknesses, passions, desires and narrowing down exactly what it is I am desiring to accomplish through my time and energy spent online. It was quite [...]

Everyone has screwed up their own lives to one degree or another…everyone needs second chances. Some people are given “miraculous” second chances while others truly need to learn how to find and create their second chances.