Anyone who has asked the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" will find it clearly answered in Life Lessons: our purpose in being human. The Masters of the Spirit World selected for this book 40 souls- channeled by Chicago-based psychic Toni Ann Winninger-who freely chose their life lessons before they incarnated on planet Earth. In dialogue with the book's editor, Peter Watson Jenkins, the souls were identified as having previously lived lives in many parts of the world over the past 100 years. They each tell the story of how they met, with varying success and failure, the...

The past 100 years have seen a huge rejection of traditional religions and their beliefs. Some say this loss began with people's rejection of the Just War doctrine in WWI. For the author, growing up in an English liberal Christian community 80 years ago, change came in stages. With gentle humor he describes how he wrestled with agnosticism, then rejected Roman Catholicism and evangelical Protestantism. Having been ordained a Congregational minister he struggled to conform to his church's doctrine and eventually switched to Unitarianism. Having immigrated to America he finally abandoned the...

About the Contributor(s): The Rev. Peter Watson Jenkins, the son of a Methodist minister, was raised in Bath, England. After training as a school teacher and then doing hospital work as a conscientious objector, he attended Cambridge University to read theology and to train for the Congregational ministry. He was ordained in 1963 and served six parishes in Britain and America. From 1966-69 he was minister in charge of the pacifist (British) Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was active in community relations, broadcast ministry, and high school religious education. Now retired, Peter works as a...