Spirituality
Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith (Henri Nouwen)
Book Review: Henri Nouwen (with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird), Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith, HarperSanFrancisco, 2006. Henri Nouwen is probably one of the two or three most-read (even by non-Roman Catholics) twentieth century Catholic authors – and deserves to be. Some of his books – With Open Hands, […]
Belief in/and God
From a netfriend: ‘It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so’ (Mark Twain) It ain’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so. — Will Rogers ~~~ I believe Will Rogers is responsible for the […]
Who Or What Is God?
In his best-selling book, ‘The Power of Now’, Eckhart Tolle writes: “The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that […]
Myers Briggs Prayers
* ENFJ: God, help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest. Do you mind putting that in Writing?* ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th-Look a bird!-ing at a time.* ENTJ: Lord, help me slow downandnotrushthroughwhatIdoAmen.* ENTP: Lord, help me follow established procedures today. On […]
Theology and Prayer
‘The person who prays is a true theologian and the true theologian is the one who prays’ Eastern Orthodox maxim
Saints (Aquinas)
When asked ‘What do you have to do to become a saint? Aquinas replied ‘Velle (Want it!)’.
Strength Through Prayer
‘Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up on wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint’. Isaiah 40:31. Many of us come to a situation in our lives where we do not know the way forward. I am one such […]
Australian Youth Spirituality
A Spectral View of Contemporary Australian Youth Spiritualities & Evangelical Youth Ministry By Paul Tyson Abstract: This paper seeks to nuance the amorphous notion of contemporary Australian “youth spirituality” into a spectral range of overlapping yet distinct youth spiritualities. These different spiritualities are identified by reference to the tacit belief and practise characteristics of different […]
Australian Youth Spirituality: Endnotes
Click here to view the first section of this article. ——————————————————————————– [1] Broadly defined, positivism is the conviction that only what can be scientifically demonstrated is real. [2] In the parlance of the social sciences, quantitative social research deals in the statistical analysis of “hard” data – such as age, gender, income distribution etc – […]
Religion and spirituality lower blood pressure
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Published May 18, 2006 NEW YORK — A U.S. study of 5,302 African-Americans found those who participated in religious activities had significantly lower blood pressure. “Cardiovascular health disparities among African-Americans are widely recognized, and hypertension is the most prominent risk factor in the development of cardiovascular disease in African-Americans,” said study […]
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