Rowland Croucher
“You Raise Me Up” (Do they sing this at your church?)
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary; When troubles come and my heart burdened be; Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit awhile with me. You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas; […]
LIVING A WHOLE LIFE (Richard Rohr)
GOD-AWARENESS The contemplative secret is to learn to live in the now. The now is not as empty as it might appear to be or that we fear it may be. Try to realize that everything is right here, right now. When we ¢â‚¬â„¢re doing life right, it means nothing more than it is right […]
Wisdom for Life
Some wise reminders from a dear friend: “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer People often say with pride, ¢â‚¬Å“I ¢â‚¬â„¢m not interested in politics. ¢â‚¬ They might as well say, ¢â‚¬Å“I ¢â‚¬â„¢m not interested in my standard of […]
Humo[u]r
Thought For The Day: If you leave alphabet soup on the stove and go out, it could spell disaster. ============= A man visiting a graveyard saw a tombstone that read: ¢â‚¬Å“Here lies John Smith, a lawyer and an honest man. ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“How about that! ¢â‚¬ he exclaimed. ¢â‚¬Å“They ¢â‚¬â„¢ve got three people buried in one grave. ¢â‚¬ ===================== TEACHER: […]
ATHEIST HOLY DAY :-)
FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY In Florida , an atheist created a case against Easter and Passover Holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians and Jews and observances of their holy days. The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days. The case […]
You Lost Me – Latest Church Research from Barna Group
People are calling it “The Great Departure” – Christian young people leaving the church. Close to 60 percent of young people who went to church as teens drop out after high school. Now the bestselling author of unChristian trains his researcher’s eye on these young believers. Where David Kinnaman‘s first book unChristian showed the world what outsiders aged 16-29 think […]
Faith and feelings
‘Dear Lord, Your word is replete with promises Yet those promises don’t seem as immediate as our circumstances, nor as immediate and compelling as our feelings. There are times when we don’t feel your presence – there are many more times when we don’t feel we truly believe. Help us not to confuse faith with […]
Copyright vs free information-sharing (a new religion)
Sightings 1/26/2012 Shared Paradise — Robert M Geraci There ¢â‚¬â„¢s a new flying spaghetti monster in the spiritual marketplace: the Church of Kopimism. The newly ¢â‚¬Å“established ¢â‚¬ religion has become the talk of the internet, in part because of its transparently ¢â‚¬Å“unreligious ¢â‚¬ outlook and in part because of the group ¢â‚¬â„¢s social perspective. The Church of Kopimism, which received […]
Humo[u]r (corny :-)
A man placed some flowers on the grave of his departed mother and started back for his car, parked on the cemetery road. His attention was diverted to a man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity, and kept repeating, “Why did you die? Why did you die?” The […]
Female Circumcision in the Maldives, the Islamic Movement and Islamophobia
By Mark Durie Posted: 25 Jan 2012 12:26 I was struck today by a comment from a Maldives women’s rights activist about the direction her nation is taking. In a report published the Melbourne Age, which discussed female circumcision and the local practice of flogging female adulterers, Shadiya Ibrahim remarked: “Being a woman is harder now. The religious […]
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