Paul Harvey The historian Sean Wilentz’s biography/analysis of Bob Dylan has been getting a lot of attention, including a very annoying and somewhat dyspeptic review in the New York Times. Much better informed and more interesting is Scott Poole’s essay on the book .
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Bob Dylan, Sacred Folkster
Manifestation of intention through visualisation in theosophy Sep 06, 2010 09:50 am I’m very glad to note that Pablo Sender had an article published in The Theosophist about a topic that’s VERY relevant to today’s world. Since he always gives me permission to publish his articles on my site, I just did.
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Visualisation, Auroville, Spiritual Teachings, Zen Quotes, Sufism and more
Paul Harvey In today’s New York Times , Samuel Freedman does a nice overview of the making of ” God in America ,” to be shown on PBS Oct. 11-13. A brief excerpt: Having always considered Jefferson “cerebral and slightly allergic to religion,” she recently recalled, [show producer Marilyn] Mellowes was instantly intrigued
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God in America and the New York Times
He says, “The Christian Church needs a spiritually strong and muscular Anglicanism to re-evangelize the West.” David Anderson, interloper bishop from Kenya, president of the American Anglican Council, opined t his bit of drivel in a larger essay in which he also put together his idea of what the “Global South bishops” should do if the Episcopal Church’s primate comes to the next meeting of the Primates. The suggestion is to throw her out of the meeting or pick up and move away from her to the next room
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Bishop David Anderson lives in la-la land.
The Pew Forum has done it again with their latest in a series of polls that show the dumbification of America. Just when we think this country is full of Kumbaya singers, universal proselytizers and everyone reading the same page on religion, we discover that people of faith, in essence… can’t friggin’ read! Or if
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Sure I believe in God, but what’s a Bible?
‘Mindfulness, the heart of Buddhist meditation, is at the core of being able to live life as if it really matters. It has nothing to do with Buddhism.
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Fully experiencing the present: a practice for everyone, religious or not
Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2011 Saint Francis University Loretto, Pennsylvania 15940 CALL FOR PAPERS We cordially invite undergraduates to submit proposals for the fifth annual North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy. Submissions are encouraged from students majoring in all academic fields. Although any paper related to religion and philosophy will be considered, priority will be given to those addressing this year’s theme, “ Race in America .” As philosopher Cornel West asserted, “A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.” Accordingly, this year’s conference will forthrightly address philosophical and religious questions of race and how these questions relate to politics, culture, society, and history
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CFP: Undergrad Conference on Race in America
Once upon a time there was a man named Jesus who came to this jacked-up place to sacrifice his life for mankind. You see, his Daddy determined a perfect sacrifice is what was necessary to redeem the lives of the rest of us
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Barack Obama does understand we all chose Christ, right?
Kelly Baker H ere’s some interesting reading for your Thursday over at Religion Dispatches and Religion Nerd .
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Thursday Reading: Religious Knowledge, Religious Studies and the Tea Party’s Religion
by Christopher Jones The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has released the results of its U.S.
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A Quick Overview of the Results from the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey