spirituality

(3D+) Reframing Spirituality: A New Series

Submitted by Gerrit on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 4:38pm

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It sure is good to be back and talking Resilience with old and new friends. I’d like to think at you also about a related topic, namely, spirituality, and specifically how to reframe it in our time of the great unraveling. The purpose of this post is to seek out a few similar-minded people, similar to the regulars in Resilience discussions, who would converse with me as I try to sort out my own spirituality. More below:

The Tree Of Consciousness

Submitted by Gerrit on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 6:30am

Good morning, my dear friends of c99, from a rainy morning in southern Ontario. Great weather for ducks. My primary interest is spirituality and I really should get to it sometimes, eh :=) I would like to show you a drawing by my daughter the genius illustrator (this is called Dad-bragging.) I think mostly in images and I asked her to draw the tree of consciousness image that lives in me. More below.

Bread and Roses

Submitted by Gerrit on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 11:08pm

I love protest songs, of all kinds, all eras, all genres, pretty much all the time. Like many here, I'm particularly fond of protest songs from the 60s & 70s; I'm such a folkie, it's embarrassing. I have no expertise but lots of enthusiasm, and I so hope you'd contribute some of your knowledge and experiences of the songs. First, what is a protest song? Phil Ochs has the best definition of them all. Please see below.

A thank you and a welcome

Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 01/20/2016 - 2:27pm

I've said before, on numerous occasions, that I am not particularly religious. But I belong to a community which does not experience wide-ranging acceptance. We are excluded more often than not.

So it should not be a surprise when I highlight any call for us to be welcomed into any community.

Bishop Gene Robinson, who is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, has written and published Transgender Welcome: A Bishop Makes the Case for Affirmation. According to the CAP reuse policy, I may publish Bishop Robinson's document in its entirety if I follow a few rules.

Thisdocument was published by the Center for American Progress

This document is a love letter to the transgender community, both a “thank you” and a “welcome” to transgender people. It comes out of my experience of learning so much—about sexuality, gender, and myself—from transgender people. It springs from my belief that God is enriching the lives of us all by bringing transgender people and their insights into our experience and understandings. This resource is an attempt to recognize transgender people as the gift they are to our understanding of God and God’s love.

God is up to something, as God often is! And this time, it’s personal.