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faith, false_dichotomy, organized-religion, religion, religion_and_spirituality, spirituality
Faith, organized religion, spirituality
07.01.07 | Permalink | 23 CommentsI want to thank Jaume for keeping the discussion about the New Atheists going on his blog. I want to keep the conversation going on my end, and I want to do that by talking about my own understanding of what faith, organized religion and spirituality are. I buy in to Paul Tillich’s understanding of […]
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hinduism, spiritual-paths, spirituality, uuism
Are Unitarians “vague Hindus?”
08.11.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsPeacebang asks if we Unitarians have become “vague Buddhists.” A People So Bold! isn’t buying, and Lo-Fi Tribe renews the case for a vibrant religious humanism. I wonder if UUism more closely resembles Hinduism. We Unitarians try to practice an open, practical, religious pluralism, and the gold standard of religous pluralism is Hinduism. It makes […]
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liberals, politics, spirituality, UU, values, vision
Help wanted: Articulating a new liberal spirituality
06.04.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAtlanta Unitarian would like your help mapping out a new take on liberal values that is spiritual, political, and effective: “What we need to offer people is liberal religious perspective that allows them to live meaningful lives, and yes, resist the temptations of the larger secular culture. We need to give people a full and […]
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emerging, icons, spirituality, universalism
It’s a Jesulope!
05.22.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPeacebang points us to Matt Stone's Eclectic Itchings, an "emerging spirituality" blog with several cool icon collections, including my two new favorite Jesii, Jesulope and Alien Jesus. Good content too. A generously ecumenical take on spirituality — Christianity, paganism, Judaism, Buddhism and more — that doesn't get bogged down into a gooey New Age melting […]
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christian, quiz, religion, spirituality
What’s your spiritual worldview?
04.24.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHere’s another must-do quiz to add to Beliefnet’s excellent Belief-O-Matic quiz: What’s your theological worldview? It’s from a Christian perspective, so if you’re decidely not Christian or don’t have any Christian background (is that even possible in the US?), you’ll scratch your noggin over some of the questions, yet it had plenty of room for […]
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reason, spirituality
When reason doesn’t work
04.23.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on When reason doesn’t workFrom Atlanta Unitarian: “When reason is forcefully appled to this meaning-making mechanism, the result is violence to the soul. Reason cuts like a knife, separating what in the soul is married. It reduces the soul to a slave, whose worth is no more than what can be objectively measured by the systems of economy or […]
