Rare Faith Blog

By Angie Kleven

Nearly six years ago, I experienced a tremendous financial loss. A business I had poured years of time, money, and heart into collapsed—suddenly and without warning. Overnight, not a...

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of...

This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanator...

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly int...

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to "drift" upon the ocean of life. Aimlessness is a vice, and such driftin...

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary...

Because I know the question has come up for some readers, I thought I’d go ahead and address it head-on:

“Is it safe to learn from Leslie Householder?”

In other words—is the information you’ll learn...

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual respon...

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put i...

By James Chase

The other day I ran into a friend that I hadn't seen in over ten years. He asked me what I was doing and it gave me the opportunity to let him know what I had been up to. I let him kno...

By Travis Giauque

I woke up, not quite sure why I was hearing crying from another room. What time was it? Close to 2 a.m. — and where was my wife?

I pulled myself from our warm bed and followed the ...

By James Chase

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, I believe that within each of us is the challenge to succeed.

For me, that journey started as the oldest of nine children. With a family...

By James Chase

When I write the story of my life, I’d like to call it The Parable of the 2 x 4. To explain why, let me share a story about a farmer and his mule. I’m not sure who originally told it, ...

By Emily Clawson

The other day, as my husband and I were leaving the airport, we went through the cash line to pay for our thirty minutes of parking. The attendant, acting quite suspicious, charged u...

By Nancy Genys

I believe there's much to learn by observing nature and how it works, because nature follows the same universal laws that govern our lives—whether we’re aware of them or not. Let’s com...

By Nancy Genys

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation teaches that circumstances and things are always changing according to our thoughts. In essence, ideas are either moving toward becoming real—or fadi...

By Nancy Genys

It took me years to fully grasp the Law of Relativity. My therapist had been trying to teach me this concept—though he never called it a “law”—for as long as I could remember. He simpl...

By Emily Clawson

As a student of the philosophies of abundance, I’ve learned how important it is to keep a positive outlook on life. I’ve seen that when I think positive thoughts, more positive circu...