Archive for February, 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
The Spirituality of Fear
It seems that lately many people I know are living in fear. Mostly they are in fear about the future, particularly their economic future. Right now, I seem to be one of the few people in my “crowd” that is not worried. Maybe I should be, but I truly do not think it is necessary. […]
Comments Off - Posted in All of Our Voices (Posts from Contributors) by Rev. Teri Sandler
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Who Would Jesus Shoot?
When was the last time you walked into a place of worship and worried whether others might be carrying a concealed weapon? Evidently, if you show up for a church service in Arkansas sometime in the near future, there may be reason to worry.
By a measure of 57 to 42 the Arkansas state House passed […]
Comments Off - Posted in Religion and Politics by Robert "Voluptuous" Thompson
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Mid-Winter Glimmerings
It’s mid-February, a few days after the sacred feast of Saint Valentine, which perhaps we don’t fully recognize the import of, being confused about love, or Love, as we sometimes are. It is raining in Northern California, at long last, an ebbing of the drought of the past three years, we hope. I know the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by Bill Glenn
Friday, February 13th, 2009
The Faithless Priest
When I met Nishiyama San two years ago, we both were nervous. He had come to brief me and get briefed about interviews we would be doing together the next day, talks with eighty-year-olds in Totsukawa, one of Japan’s deepest mountain villages. His worries had to do with me: whether my questions would be appropriate, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by James Huffman
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Where is your spiritual frontier?
His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells a story on himself. A number of years ago he was slated to give a talk in Tokyo. He sat on the platform awaiting his turn. The host gave a beautiful and extravagant speech about the gorgeous arrangement of flowers on the table that were to be given to […]