Category: Christianity

Blogometers

…stay tuned for more on Dzogchen and Lama Surya as well as other Buddhist disciplines and progressive approaches to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and spirituality in general.

Sacred Spaces

“The moment I entered this sanctuary, I felt welcome.”

The American Prosperity Gospel

…in the United States I think we are all blessed, or cursed, by strains of the Prosperity Gospel, the idea that our status, health and wealth come to us because God rewards the right faith and punishes those who lack it.

Words + Music = ???

I don’t believe in an external deity who watches over sparrows and me, but I do believe in a force that connects sparrows and me and everything else.

Do a Good Thing That Matters

The costs of Sarah’s Alzheimer’s made homeowner’s insurance impossible for Asbury, so the Lincoln community is doing the modern equivalent of a barn raising for the couple.

Eye of the Beholder

…it’s OK — more than OK — to work for a politician or a cause that you feel will make the world better. What’s not OK is getting so wrapped up in your politician or your cause that you know yours is the one and only answer.

Dead. I Dare You to Say It.

Maybe, as the world has become more technologically advanced and dying has become more sterile, we fear it more.

the road

Originally posted on dhamma footsteps:
POSTCARD #180: Chiang Mai: For most people in the Christian world, the Christmas festival has jingle-bells, santaclausisms and the Jesus Teachings are embedded in this but that’s okay. Somehow the essence of it got assimilated in the warmth of our Christmas-shopping and why not, it’s all-inclusive isn’t it? For a…

Bishop Spong: Charting the New Reformation: The Twelve Theses

“I issue this call to the Christian world to transform its holy words of yesterday into believable words of today. If we fail in this task there is little reason to think that Christianity, as presently understood and constituted, will survive this century.”