“Drawing from the personal experiences of a seasoned pastor, a team of modern liberal scholars, and the gospel accounts of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, Teacher, Guide, Companion challenges readers to reexamine their own relationship with …
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Drawing from the wisdom of the world’s religions, Simply Pray offers readers an easy-to-use modern prayer practice free from any particular theological orientation. Wikstrom identifies and defines the four major types of prayer that are practiced by …
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Advent comes again
time for watching and waiting
fill your days with hope
My soul sings in gratitude.
I’m dancing in the mystery of God.
The light of the Holy One is within me
and I am blessed, so truly blessed.
Awakened World 2012, http://www.agnt.org/awakened2012.html was recently convened and hosted in Italy by three American organizations. I learned about the conference through the Association of Global New Thought, one of the sponsoring organizations, http://www.agnt.org/charter/conveners.html. 240 participants came from more than 15 …
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“I think that people who are leaving church, or people who call themselves spiritual but not religious, are raising really significant questions about faith, about community life and about the future of religion that religious leaders should pay more attention to,” says religion scholar Diana Butler Bass, author of Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening. Watch more of our interview with her about the religious implications of the rise of the religiously unaffiliated.
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What’s a promise worth, any more? Surely one of the most peculiar phenomena in America’s peculiar politics has been Grover Nordquist’s no-tax-increase pledge. It was signed solemnly by countless Republican politicians over the last couple of decades. …
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The service gives an ‘history with a thread of meaning’
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English and Spanish verses of the song traditionally sung as Joseph and Mary search for shelter.
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When Juan Diego spread out his tunic
Carmine roses cascaded before the bishop
When one comes in a never-uttered name
God wins the glory for all that is done:
It’s in hoping for what cannot be claimed
That every inch of justice is won.
Dear One, closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star, you are beyond naming.
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Great divine spirit of love that is at the core of everything and from which all life flows,
We acknowledge your healing and transforming power.
Breath, love, hope, inspiration
— truth that sings forth from within
even as I am enveloped with its challenge,
O Divine Power of Creation
Hallowed be thy name
The mystery of thy grace be with us
Good caring presence within us, around us, and above us;
Hold us in a sense of mystery and wonder.
“So what do progressives do about the God thing?”
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