Rare Faith Blog

By Mark Andrew Beach

When I started college as a freshman in the fall of 1977, I declared a major in music and dance. I was all in. I took two dance classes, earned a spot on the college ballroom dan...

 By Mark Andrew Beach

Albert Einstein first developed the theory of relativity between 1907 and 1915. Fortunately, we don’t need to understand it on Einstein’s level to grasp the practical power of t...

By Mark Andrew Beach

I remember sitting in my seventh-grade science class when my teacher introduced us to a foundational truth of physics: “To every action in the universe, there is an equal and opp...

By Mark Andrew Beach

"This law states that everything is energy and that energy is in a constant state of vibration."

The Law of Vibration teaches us that everything—everything—is energy. That energ...

By Mark Andrew Beach

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation teaches that everything is always in motion—either moving into physical form or out of it. It's a powerful reminder that ideas aren’t meant to ...

By Robyn Young

"One of the greatest skills we can learn in life is how to deal effectively with disappointments, because after all, life is full of them. Learning the skill not only helps us turn thi...

By Robyn Young

"Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth ...

By Mark Andrew Beach

The Mindset Mastery Midterm: One Stubborn Door and a Breakthrough

For my Mindset Mastery program assignment, I chose a home improvement project—installing a pull-down attic door...

By Mark Andrew Beach

Man-made laws are created by people in an attempt to shape behavior. Because they are inherently subjective and often inconsistent, they may or may not be enforceable—or even enf...

By Mark Andrew Beach

I once read a quote—though I can’t recall who said it—that stuck with me:

"We can never achieve excellence as long as there remains a gap between our knowing and our doing."
It ...

By Robyn Young

"Musick has Charms to soothe a savage Breast, to soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak."
~ William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

Music moves.
It lilts, flows, rises in crescendo, then fa...

By Robyn Young

Perpetual Transmutation.
Let’s break it down:

Perpetual: occurring continually, continuing forever
Trans- (prefix): so or such as to change or transfer
Mutation: a significant and bas...

By Robyn Young

I had a conversation with a friend the other day that ended in hurt feelings—my hurt feelings. Sometimes you can sense tension building in a relationship before things boil over. Not t...

By Robyn Young

Years ago, I watched the movie What About Bob?, a comedy about a man named Bob (Bill Murray), a deeply paranoid New Yorker who’s afraid of just about everything. His fears are so overw...

By Robyn Young

I saw a comic in the paper a few weeks ago. It showed a delinquent-looking teen standing in a school hallway, eyeing the “in case of fire” alarm next to him. In the next frame, he pull...

By Robyn Young

I’m fascinated by the process of bringing a dream to life. The more I reflect on it, the more I’m reminded of my pregnancies—there are so many parallels. It’s no coincidence that this ...

By Robyn Young

Recently, I had a conversation with a friend that didn’t go the way I had hoped. I was deeply hurt and couldn’t seem to shake it. The pain settled in and soon turned into irritability—...

By Robyn Young

I had an interesting experience while listening to the radio recently. A song I’d never heard before came on—a story about a man facing his own mortality. He was asked how he reacted w...