Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Taking Refuge
Most of us don’t think of ourselves as refugees. A refugee is someone who flees to a foreign country to escape danger or persecution. Displaced by whatever cause, homelessness becomes the refugee’s home.
Thankfully, most of us never know this fate—at least in a physical sense. But we all know what it’s like to become a […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Dark Night of the Soul by Robert "Voluptuous" Thompson
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
CAN YOU BE MY PASTOR ANY LONGER
By Peter Slonek
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Revolutionary
Lately, I’ve become infatuated with Hildegard of Bingen, the twelfth century German nun. It was not love at first sight, believe me. I didn’t think she was my type. She was a visionary, and I am not interested in the supernatural. She was obsessed with cosmology and the architecture of the […]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
In the Grip of Something
I carry an unusual coin in my pocket, and renew it each year, so it remains fresh, so to speak. It has the phrase: to thine own self be true, which is a scriptural reference, but to what book and passage I am not remembering, and it matters not at all. Though I […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Dark Night of the Soul by Bill Glenn
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Beauty
The moon shines in my body, but
my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me and so is the
Sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is
Sounded within me; but my deaf
Ears cannot hear it.
[Songs of Kabir]
The Washington Post published an article entitled “Pearls Before Breakfast”, starting out saying:
“Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut […]
4 Comments » - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by Billie Hinnefeld
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Why Jesus Would Never Run For President
While filming the controversial movie about the Passion of Christ several years ago, Mel Gibson should have gotten the message. According to newspaper reports, while filming the movie, the guy who played Jesus was struck by lightning, twice.
The odds are 350,000 to 1 that you will be struck by lightening once. The odds […]