
10 Ways Churches Could Bring Us to God. -Roger Wolsey
7-8,000 churches close their doors every year in the U.S. – about 150-200 every week
7-8,000 churches close their doors every year in the U.S. – about 150-200 every week
I was no longer young: in fact I was well over sixty. The winter had been dark and tedious.
a reflection on the work of Barbara Brown Taylor
"We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die."
From Patheos: A Zen Priest Reflects On Being Spiritually Fluid, March 9, 2019 by James Ford
Michael Saunders, neurologist and priest, writes about the journey of faith
It was the American rocker Larry Norman who, in 1972, asked the question that many others had been afraid to voice.
this crumbling ark of a thing that we’ve half-worshipped and over-mortgaged
A Response to Deepak Chopra by John Bennison on February 17, 2019 |
The Origin of Religion - A Sermon Delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fullerton 10th February, 2019 James Ishmael Ford
Vance Morgan writing for "Freelance Christianity" observes that writing in the decades after the Second World War, Murdoch assumes that human beings are required to grapple with a difficult world lacking the tools provided by traditional Christianity
Two bite-sized pieces of wisdom from the late, great literary genius, Maya Angelou. Like gems, these are ideas you can put in your pocket, and take them out whenever you need them
The late 60’s was a time of great hope for reform. Nothing we then thought would be quite the same again.
The Christian Middle Way - The case against Christian belief but for Christian faith Robert M. Ellis Publication Date: July 2018 The Buddha’s Middle Way applied to the Christian tradition. Ellis argues for a meaningful and positive interpretation of Christianity, without the absolute beliefs that many assume to be essential to it. Faith as an embodied, provisional confidence is distinguished from dogmatic belief, in a comprehensive re-interpretation of key aspects of Christian tradition.
Dairmaid MacCulloch tells of a 'wise old Dominican friar' who informed him that God is not the answer. Rather, God is the question. The presumption is that the friar was Herbert McCabe. Another philosopher engaging with that suggestion is William Irvin writing in The New York Times.
“God is love.”.....These three words are our marching orders as Christians.
We take the Bible seriously, we just don’t take it literally
Would someone like Fr Henri Nouwen now be disinclined to enter the seminary? asks Michael W. Higgins in this week's Tablet
What does it mean to accept that God is not the answer to anything, but remains the unanswerable question?
The NCR questions whether the U.S. bishops, have the will to confront the now undeniable corruption in their culture.
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