+ Spirituality & Practice offers a review of a powerful documentary on the Darfur crisis: The Devil Came on Horseback. Excerpt: "... one of the most searing...
+ I am following an exchange of theological ideas between two of my Presbyterian colleagues who blog regularly, John Shuck and Robert Campbell. Guess who I...
+ A good friend offers the following response to Paul Hartigan's "more adequate Christian Ten Commandments" which I posted here yesterday: Greetings John, I...
+ Don't miss this week's Inner Work at Inner Frontier. Joseph Naft offers "Inner Occupations". Excerpt: "What is it that occupies your mind and heart? What...
+ The Four Precepts offers "Simple Beings and the Mind" by Hermit Crab. Excerpts: "An object's function is its experiential path of motion through the...
+ Common Dreams offers "How Did We Get Into This Neoliberal Mess?" by George Monbiot. Excerpts: "Booming inequality threatens to create the most divided...
+ The weekly Inner Work at Inner Frontier is always worth reading and then putting into practice. I was so busy this past week that I almost missed one of the...
+ TruthDig offers "The Next Quagmire" by Chris Hedges. Excerpts: "... (We) live in an age where dialogue is dismissed and empathy is suspect. We prefer the...
+ In Inner Work at Inner Frontier Joseph Naft offers important wisdom on "Sameness" as he expands his ideas on The Stages of Love. Excerpts: "The practice of...
+ In Inner Work at Inner Frontier Joseph Naft offers important wisdom on "Acceptance" as he expands his ideas on The Stages of Love. Excerpts: "Dropping, or at...
+ UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has declared 2007 the International Year of Rumi to commemorate the 800th...
+ I just discovered "Christian Anti-Semitism: Past History, Present Challenges Reflections in Light of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ" by John T....
+ It's about time for a new Message for the Trek. Here goes: Every breath is a revelation. Each breath is totally different than the last one or the next one....
+ In Inner Work at Inner Frontier Joseph Naft offers important wisdom on "Empathy and Compassion" as he expands his ideas on The Stages of Love. Excerpts:...
+ In The Four Precepts Wayne Ferguson offers some intelligent thoughts about "Intelligent Design". Excerpts: "While it seems rather obvious that the objections...
+ I just discovered "Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism?". This is a great article about Paul by Pamela Eisenbaum, a Jewish American scholar. It...
+ Here's a good one from the Teachings of Diogenes (the dog): Diogenes was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Coming up to him, Plato said, "My good...
+ Spirituality & Practice offers a film review of O JERUSALEM by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Excerpts: "O Jerusalem presents an unbiased overview of the...
+ In Inner Work at Inner Frontier Joseph Naft offers important wisdom on "Stages of Presence" as he begins a new series on Stages of Presence. Excerpts: "The...
+ Thanks to a new book I found at the library, The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden, I have discovered a Zen classic, Hsin-Hsin Ming which means "Faith-Mind...
+ Alternet offers "We Can't Shop Our Way to Safety" by Erin Wiegand. Excerpt: "In Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to...
+ I found the following list of reasons for being spiritually progressive at The Forum for Progressive Christianity by wayfarer07: I see myself as spiritually...
+ The Four Precepts offers "Just For Today" by Sri Chinmoy. Excerpt: "Just for today, I shall meditate on God. I know that when I meditate on God, I empty my...
+ Maybe God has a solution to Global Warming: Oil Scarcity. OrionMagazine offers "Making Other Arrangements: A wake-up call to a citizenry in the shadow of oil...
+ In my quest for wisdom on the heavenly gift of abundance, I have discovered 2 websites connected with the teachings of Laurence Boldt: Empower You and The...
+ Continuing with yesterday's post on abundance, here's a quote from Laurence Boldt found at Empower You: In the end, we could say that abundance is the...