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Spiritual Poverty of the Modern World
Submitted by bill on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 14:01. existentialism Faith, Meaning & Purpose reason spirit spiritualityTo discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. —William Barrett1
Cross as a Symbol of Spiritual Transformation
Submitted by bill on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 08:28. Christianity cross Faith, Meaning & Purpose sacred spiritualityThe Cross is a very ancient symbol that represents the spiritual nature of humankind. It is so ancient that it predates written language. This ancient symbol is one of the four earliest and most significant of spiritual symbols, including the Point, the Circle, and Square. To understand Cross, we will first look at the other symbols.
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Thinking About Starting a New Website
Submitted by bill on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 09:11. commons faith commons Kingdom of God maturity spiritualityI'm thinking about starting a new website. FaithCommons has done well, these past three years, and it probably has more life in it. But I want to open another path, one that might be difficult to begin unless it has its own space.
The focus of the site will be human spirituality and its development. And the premise of it is that spiritual maturity makes possible the highest that humans and humanity can attain, that of enlightenment, salvation, nirvana and the kingdom of God.
I've Changed. Moved On. It's done, and There's No Going Back
Submitted by bill on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 22:11. debate discernment faith Faith, Meaning & Purpose religion spirituality truthI've moved on. Changed. It came on slowly, almost imperceptibly, but my eventual recognition was rather swift, once I understood what was happening. Only a matter of days, it was. Now I can hardly see the path I trod to get to here from there. But I do remember that it as very long, bewildering and painful. And still there is much more of the road to travel.
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The Kingdom of God Begins With a Seed
Submitted by bill on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 09:45. enlightenment Kingdom of God spiritualityThe Kingdom of God1 begins as a tiny seed—a small aha!—and grows into a large tree joining the material with the ethereal. New Life begins with the fertilization of the seed or egg. The seed draws initial sustenance from its internal energy source until it can establish its roots in the material world and extend its foliage into the ethereal. Both are necessary for Life.
Original Faith
Submitted by bill on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 18:18. faith spirituality An up and comming book about faith, spirituality from an interfaith perspective.
Religion and Communism
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Fri, 01/26/2007 - 10:51. china communism hungary india religion religious persecution soviet union spiritualityIs Communism itself a religion, or is it the emodiment of all that most religions strive to awaken adherents to grow and to live beyond? This article explains the roots of Communism in the Modern era from the philosophies of Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels through its implementation in China, the USSR, to its failure to deliver on its promises and consequent disintegration. More important however is the analysis here of the resulting killing of the soul that Communisim has wrought.
From the article:
When people join a party such as Communism, the human spirit does not get inspired from inwards. On the other hand, people identify themselves as members of a group with a common objective and are ready to fight for it and in this case, it would be hatred to wards a section of people. They loose their spirit and become mechanical robots and as a cog in a wheel. Life is purely mechanical devoid of any challenge except to listen to the propaganda of communist philosophy of class hatred. Marx stated,” It is not the consciousness of men that determine their existence, but rather, it is their social existence that determines their consequences while those with open mind think other way. Unfortunately, Communism does not believe in universal life and respect for human spirit that which is the hall mark of any religion. Under the myth of discipline the rights of individuals are razed to the ground. Communism demolished under its feet the human dignity, intellectual conscience and love.
The Bede Griffith Trust
Submitted by bill on Mon, 11/06/2006 - 00:20. contemplation documents spirituality wisdomPurpose The Bede Grifflths Association was founded to promote the renewal of contemplative life in the contemporary church and world. This renewal requires, in Fr. Bede’s words “a marriage of contemplation and action.”
Heterodoxy and The Long Tail
Submitted by bill on Tue, 07/11/2006 - 11:30. Christianity church cluetrain Emerging Church postmodern society and culture spiritualityThe future of Christian (and religious) thought and practice is rapidly moving from orthodoxy to heterodoxy. In the same way that markets for everything from books, to music and movies, to news and opinion (blogging), erupts from mainstream to broad-stream, religious thought and practice will continue to grow increasingly diverse. From hierarchical to network to complexity, our social structures—including those of markets as well as spirituality—are breaking free of their moorings to scatter, emerge, cluster and re-form more to the real world and less to the arbitrary structures designed and defined by the experts and brokers of mass marketing and orthodoxy. Reido's Church Without Walls has a lot in common with Chris Anderson's The Long Tail.
