Spirituality
Why I’m giving up my Christian identity
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com I’ve been a Christian for 30 years. People know me as a Christian. Most of my friends are Christian. For a long time, being Christian has been my very identity. And that is a problem. I am known by many people for being good at theology. I am good at […]
Allan Penn: eulogy for an amazing, humble man…
– by his son (‘Chewie) at a packed Thanksgiving Service, Heathmont Baptist Church, 25th May 2015. ~~ Since as early as I can remember, my father started each day by preparing a cup of tea, and a slice of toast, and taking it to my mother in bed, to help ease her into the day. […]
Fasting may be good for you…
Manage hyper-consumption with the ‘modern’ fast Date January 24, 2015 Time to take a digital fast? How do we cope in a world full of constant reminders to eat more junk food, drink more alcohol, have more friends, read more, post more, text more, and tweet more? One emerging way of managing hyper-consumption is the […]
On Listening…
Please Listen When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings. When I ask you to listen […]
SPIRITUALITY: A BRILLIANT INTRODUCTION…
Review: Hedley Beare’s Dolphin’s Leap, Hind’s Feet: Becoming a Mystic – Journey, Discipline and Practice (Morning Star Publishing 2014). \ Friends ask: ‘Rowland you’re a retired pastor: what are you doing these days?’ ‘Oh, what I’ve always done, but without committees or an office.’ ‘How’s that?’ ‘I walk the nearby forest trails with people, and we “rearrange their universe” […]
Affirmation and Purpose (Whose is that face staring back at me?)
“Anyone who needs 50,000 people a night to tell them they’re OK has to have a bit missing. And I do mean that in terms of your sense of self” – Bono “Everybody’s famous here but nobody’s known.” – U2, Lucifer’s Hands We live in a society where more and more people don’t know what […]
Sam Keen: writer extraordinaire…
Sam Keen Joy to the World Meditation on a Jay The Self ~~ Joy to the World Posted: 28 Oct 2014 This morning I notice a small bird trapped in my screen porch. My Birds of North America identifies it as a female Berwick’s Wren “ distinguished from other wrens by its eye stripe, white under parts […]
Mysticism: in an Aboriginal Context
Headley Beare was a remarkable man – polymath, gifted teacher, educationalist, writer and communicator. From 1981 to 1995 he was a professor of education at Melbourne University. He believed that mystical awareness, insight and experience are available to all people, in all cultures and traditions, regardless of their theological/religious traditions. His book Dolphin’s Leap, Hind’s Feet […]
Left Behind…
Warning: if you open the links mentioned in the “Sources” section at the end of this column, your agenda of other things to read may well be left behind. The “Sources” list just a few reviews out of many dealing with the film that opened over the weekend, Left Behind. I, for one, became […]
Why I’ve had enough of being spiritual
First glance at a heading like this might cause some confusion. “But isn’t God spirit? Jesus himself says so, so what’s the problem with any attempt at being spiritual?” Jesus did indeed say that God is spirit, in his incredible conversation with the woman at the well in John 4. And because Jesus said it, […]
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