Spirituality
Prayer for Rain
Soundings No. 56 – 30 April 2007 Prayer for rain and the Prime Minister by Kristine Morrison On 20 April The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported <http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/pm-urges-all-to-pray-for-rain/20 07/04/19/1176697003182.html> the Australian Prime Minister’s call to pray for rain in response to the dire state of the Murray-Darling Basin. This call was endorsed in a media release […]
The Cloud Of Nada Nada
Making sense where it makes no sense By Michael Spyker Here I am, sitting at home trying to get my house all stilled. The birds outside are chirping, I can hear the train and the garbage truck. Inside our home it’s actually quiet. Jeanne has gone to work. But my house, the one St John […]
The Serenity Prayer
Reinhold’s Era by Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien was associate professor of religion and dean of Stetson Chapel at Kalamazoo College when this article was written. His book The Word as Truth Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology is to be published this year (1997) by Westminster John Knox. This article appeared in The Christian Century, February 24, […]
Spirituality and Children
Ruth White examines the spiritual lives of children and asks what we as a church are doing to help them grow and develop Parkstone URC in Poole recently hosted a conference entitled The Missing Peace; designed to explore the spirituality of children and particularly how to work with children who were ‘looked after’ (in the […]
Different Kinds of Prayer (N T Wright)
N. Thomas Wright Anglican Bishop of Durham, England Nicholas Thomas Wright is Anglican Bishop of Durham, England. The “On Faith” panelist taught New Testament studies for 20 years at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities before becoming Dean of Lichfeld in 1994. He was named Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey in 2000, and consecrated bishop in […]
Is Praying for a Parking Space OK?
Praying for Parking Is Evil To pray for parking is to misunderstand what God does in our lives. By Patton Dodd There are single moms or dads with three kids and bags of groceries, elderly men with oxygen tanks to push across icy lots, people recovering from surgery who aren’t advised to be out of […]
SPIRITUALITY: The Shifting Foundations
(Notes from a seminar with Diarmuid O’Murchu, January 19, 2007. These are some of the ideas I heard; I think they also match what our Irish friend said!) Introduction: ‘There is a new question in the Spiritual Life; it is the spirituality of the Spiritual Life itself. Life here, and the way we relate to […]
The Five Finger Prayer
From a netfriend: I found this prayer guideline for you. 🙂 1. Your thumb is nearest you. So begin your prayers by praying for those closest to you. They are the easiest to remember. To pray for our loved ones is, as C. S. Lewis once said, a “sweet duty.” 2. The next finger is […]
This tiny little prayer
Dear Lord: Every single evening As I’m lying here in bed Keeps running through my head. God bless all my family Wherever they may be, Keep them warm and safe from harm For they’re so close to me. And God, there is one more thing I wish that you could do. Hope you don’t mind […]
Philip Yancey, Prayer: Does It Make a Difference?
Rather than doing a ‘critical review’ of Yancey’s excellent (‘research-heavy’) new book, I thought I’d post instead these ‘Ideas to Ponder’ I collected as I slowly read it over the last couple of months: * Hans Kung’s theological tome ‘On Being a Christian’, 702 pages long, did not include a chapter or even an index […]
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