In July I made the following new squidoo lenses relating to spirituality: Susan Seddon Boulet Goddess Paintings An artist whose art is still popular in the pagan scene, Susan Seddon Boulet will mostly be remembered for her goddess art. The mystical style of her paintings (mostly, but not exclusively, water color) strikes a core in many.
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New spiritual ‘lenses’ – pages on squidoo
Author Anne Rice said last week that she was ‘quitting Christianity:’ The once-lapsed Catholic wrote that she was could no longer accept her religion’s teachings on homosexuality, feminism, politics and birth control. “In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian,” Rice announced on her facebook page.
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Spiritual but not religious?
Gerardo Marti This week afforded me a bit of reading and reflection through Heidegger’s Being and Time as part of my ongoing attempt to grow in my scholarship. As an ethnographer, I regularly immerse myself in religious communities both short and long term — see a recent post at Duke Divinity blog about a recent church visit — and as such am regularly confronted with what was introduced to me as “ the insider/outsider problem of religion .” The dilemma centers around a core question: Who is best able to understand religion, the committed or the agnostic? More important, what are the challenges and solutions for achieving a satisfactory understanding of religion (not just for scholars, but for everyone) considering one’s stance
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Heidegger and the Quandary of Insider/Outsider Roles in Religious Research: A Methodological Note
Paul Harvey I’ve been meaning to get back to doing some yoga, something I did in years past, as a supplement to my normal exercise diet of web-surfing, Netflix-watching, fantasy-football-playing, and martini-glass-lifting. Every time I think of doing so, however, the same chilling thought comes to mind: what will Matt Sutton say
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The Soul Destroying Poison of the East; or, Why I’ll Assume the Savasana Posture while Watching Mad Men
In the previous post I summarized various evidence pertaining to a fundamental option in the sense of an orientation that changes through a series of acts. This post attempts a sketch that does justice to all of the evidence, as far as that is possible. (1) A person who is strongly committed to the love
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Aquinas, Sin and Fundamental Option
From the oral submission given on Wednesday by Joseph Weiler, on behalf of several third-party intervening states (Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, Malta, The Russian Federation and San Marino) in the case (Lautsi v. Italy) regarding Italy’s right to display crucifixes in its public schools. 21… Secularity, Laïcité is not an empty category which signifies
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Crucifixes in Public Schools
Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Centre in Chicago MyNews.in A spiritual centre dedicated to Swami Vivekananda, who introduced the world to Indian spirituality and Hinduism , was inaugurated at a Hindu temple in …
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Centre in Chicago – MyNews.in
Today’s first Mass reading, taken from the beginning of the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, is one that I love. The passage begins with God telling Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.” Jeremiah doesn’t exactly greet this news with glee.
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To Whomever I Send You, You Shall Go
I just finished reading the most recent book of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together . The Dalai Lama is someone for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration. I continue as a Christian to benefit from his writings, as I benefitted as a Buddhist listening to his oral teachings during the time I lived in Nepal and India.
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The Dalai Lama on Kinship (Not Identity) of Faiths and Peaceful Coexistence
Today’s first Mass reading is from the Book of the Prophet Micah. Not a book most of us know exceedingly well, but most of us are familiar with the line that ends today’s reading, God’s explanation to the people, through the prophet Micah, of what is required of them. What is clear from God’s words is that the easy things don’t cut it.
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You Have Been Told What is Good