Spirituality
The Charter for Compassion (Karen Armstrong & others…)
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another […]
Your spiritual DNA
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I went to a counsellor some years ago who spoke to me about what he called my spiritual DNA. What he was referring to was the sensitivity of spirit that has been handed down to us by our ancestors. Just like a parent who has blond hair and blue eyes […]
Sacred and Profane Power (Sam Keen)
¢â‚¬Å“We are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night ¢â‚¬ Matthew Arnold Once again, the Empire is threatened. This time not by a man riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, but by holy warriors who use their own deaths as weapons of mass destruction […]
Words that wound
“Curses Left and Right: Hate Speech and Biblical Tradition” by Brian M. Britt The abstract reads: “Hate speech has been defined as ‘words that wound,’ but legal arguments to restrict such words have been unable to show how language *in itself* can have power. Such power is inconsistent with secularist ideas of language that consider […]
Life is hard
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I’ve had an emotional couple of weeks. It started when my wife and I attended a conference on a Christian response to climate change. The situation really is dire but our response is not to be one of despair and throwing our hands up in defeat. Our response is to […]
Spiritual Direction
What to Expect in Christian Spiritual Direction By Thomas Hart. Presence, vol. 13. March 2007, p. 39 – 44 ————————- Many people today want to grow in the spiritual life. Among other things, they wonder, “Should I seek and find a spiritual director to help me on my way?” But that soon generates other questions. […]
Exorcism
Deliver us from evil Cameron Stewart From: The Australian December 08, 2010 IN November last year, one of the world’s leading exorcists quietly slipped into Sydney at the invitation of the Catholic Church. It was a long journey for Father Jeremy Davies, exorcist for London ¢â‚¬â„¢s Westminster Archdiocese, but there was important business afoot for the […]
HUMILITY
Barney Zwartz December 18, 2010 As the old country song says, it’s hard to be humble. Realising we’re not perfect in every way is a start, but there’s more to it than that. IN 1880, a more religious age, Punch magazine ran a delightful cartoon of a pompous bishop patronising a pageboy. He says: ”Who is […]
Power and Love
From a thoughtful pastor-friend: I recently read a book by a Jewish peacemaker, Adam Kahane, Power and Love, in which he explores the generative and degenerative aspects of both power and love. He bases his work on the framework developed by Paul Tillich as follows: Power – the drive of everything living to realize itself, […]
A near-death experience
Rev Darryl Watson ¢â‚¬â„¢s Near-Death Experience Friday 5th May, 2000 was a day that Marian and I had looked forward to for some time. Our good friends Grady and Shirley were flying in from Houston, Texas, to stay with us. We picked them up from the Launceston (Tasmania) airport, and after unpacking, took them into the […]
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