Posted in faith on Jan 28th, 2009 10 Comments »
I think we can all agree that Jesus now comes in a rather impressive variety of flavors. I have said it before and will say it again — we have lost site of the fact that the spirituality OF Jesus has become the religion ABOUT Jesus. It has disintegrated to the point where the original [...]
Posted in faith, jesus on Jun 3rd, 2008 17 Comments »
“Discovered in Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi Library, the Gospel of Thomas was long considered irrelevant to the study of Jesus’ teachings. Stevan Davies’ influential The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom overturned this view, and enabled the Gospel of Thomas to be taken seriously as a source for the earliest [...]
Posted in christianity, faith, jesus on May 31st, 2008 4 Comments »
from the very interesting site NonAgnostic. Technorati Tags: christianity, fundamentalist, jesus, spiritual,
Posted in faith, questions on May 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
Religion is a metaphorical language that arises in response to an encounter with that which we might call The Unknown. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the Hindu/Buddhist story (depending on your source) of the blind men inspecting the elephant. Afterwards, they argue — the elephant is a rope (tail), the elephant is like a [...]
Posted in God, faith, jesus on Mar 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
Easter is over, although, in a very real sense, it’s never over. The miracle behind it is ongoing and profound, and occasionally peeks out at us, hoping to be seen. I’m not at all sure that if you put a video camera outside the tomb where Jesus was buried the story told in the New [...]
Posted in faith, general on Mar 20th, 2008 4 Comments »
Everybody who stops by here knows it’s no secret that I have a great admiration for Frederick Bueckner. I was browsing today and found several quotes that brought me up short, that sent me in that strange direction where you find yourself peering through the words into something so much more than day to day [...]
Posted in faith, general on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
People who believe in God are happier than agnostics or atheists, researchers claimed yesterday. A report found that religious people were better able to cope with disappointments such as unemployment or divorce than non-believers. Moreover, they become even happier the more they pray and go to church, claims the study by Prof Andrew Clark and [...]
Posted in faith on Mar 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back, in listening [...]
Posted in God, faith on Jan 23rd, 2008 9 Comments »
God knows, I could be wrong. It strikes me as odd that we, each of us, can be mistaken about the weather, about which direction to turn to get to a spot across town, about how we play the stock market, about any number of things, but we can be dead certain about religion and [...]
Posted in God, faith on Jan 16th, 2008 5 Comments »
I was looking at my Google Earth, which I recommend for anyone who is casting about for a way to entertainingly kill a bit of time. For those who are unaware of what Google Earth actually is, it is a map which will show you satellite pictures of virtually any location in the world. For [...]
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