Primitive Christianity Revived, Again
Brent Nongbri is a post-doctoral research fellow in early Christianity at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His 2013 book, Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept, offers a corrective to the modern concept of religion “as…
ContinueAdded by Mike Shell on 7th mo. 7, 2014 at 7:35pm — No Comments
Rebuilt: As the Court of Quaker Opinion can promote, we have the task of re-assembling the grand, old model of Quakerism.
Authentic: What, as spiritual hobby, you value as antique.
Rebuilt: And, in need of enhanced performance.
Authentic: As vehicle, rather than horse-and-pony, show.
Rebuilt: As rebuilt in a post-modern version of itself.
Authentic: To answer the hip roadsters of contemporary religion?
Rebuilt: To take the model off historical…
ContinueAdded by Clem Gerdelmann on 7th mo. 7, 2014 at 6:30am — 1 Comment
They speak of me as if I am not there. I am in first person. I am the Presence they point to in their abstracted linguistics and outward forms but I am not Present in their act of speaking. I am in the room yet they speak as if I were not. I am right there in their midst yet they cling to their linguistic forms ... their eyes and minds enchanted by outward words, ideas, ideology, religious forms and practices. I am none of these. I am the Life, the Presence, pushed to third person, the Life…
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How Facts Backfire
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/
I found the above Boston Globe piece referenced in a blog post by Adam Ericksen at The Raven Foundation. In that post, Ericksen spoke about how Matthew Vine’s recently published God and the Gay Christian, though it presented sound and Biblically…
Added by Randy Oftedahl on 7th mo. 5, 2014 at 4:43am — 4 Comments
I journey through the days knowing the Life and the Death. I am in the living story. I am in the Light and the Light is in me. I am in the world but no longer of it. My identity is anchored in eternal Life. I am eternal. The rationalizations of the abstract mind grow ever quiet. I am in the Quiet and the Quiet is me.
I am when talking with friends and associates. The Spirit fades less and less in outward communication. Faith is in the playfulness of eternal being/Being right in…
Added by Keith Saylor on 7th mo. 4, 2014 at 11:00am — No Comments
Dear Friends: Stand up straight. Those words can sound scolding – or they can sound encouraging. Deciding whether or not to obey directions, we consider the source. We consider whether we think that source cares about our best interests.
Obedience doesn’t mean the same…
Added by Mary Colleen Klein on 7th mo. 1, 2014 at 8:00pm — No Comments
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