Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The Raft is Not the Shore
I have been reading A Woman’s Journey to God, by Joan Borysenko. In a chapter called “Trains to Glory,” Joan writes, “Spirituality is the glorious destination that the train of religion is bound for.”
I like this distinction. It does not disparage organized religion or dismiss it as irrelevant. But it points out […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
The Politics of Eternity
I am well aware of the danger in mixing religion and politics. Religion is in one sense, how we envision the truth, politics is how we organize it. Especially in a presidential election cycle the semi-permeable boundaries between religion and politics become ever so muddled.
The controversy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments as Barack Obama’s […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The Savior Who Couldn’t Save Himself
To me, The Secret is like a persistent cough—it comes up when you least suspect it and it is always annoying and it doesn’t go away.
Originally released on DVD now as a book, it has been subject of talk shows and newspaper stories. It promises transformation provided you take it to heart. The website trailer […]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Severe Inconvenience
“Memorial Hospital announced this week that it would close the only inpatient psychiatric care unit in Sonoma County” so began the article in our local paper. Responding to this announcement, the county’s mental health director “acknowledged that closure of [the facility] could create severe inconveniences for patients and their families.”
I got stuck at “severe inconveniences”—a […]