3 Spiritual Sieves: Kindness, Equity, and Justice
What we do matters. How we do it matters. Our intentions, our actions, and our results matter as we seek to cultivate our relationship with the Holy and to fulfill our faithful promises. Both Leviticu
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What is your default question?
I think most of us have a default question that we ask whenever there is a down moment, a slow moment, in our lives. This default question has great power over our happiness and well being. For many o
Oscar and Bosie’s Sex Life
Let’s talk about sex, baby… Oscar Wilde never spoke publicly about the nature of his physical relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas– except to deny in court that one existed. Therefore the only accoun
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Spiritual Mentors
Part 3-A in a multi installment series for Lent. Partners on Your New Path – What mentors or fellow travelers helped light and shape your new path? I’m going to break this reflection into two parts, m
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Today's lesson - Why have we been so silly thinking that we knew better?
Today's lesson, number 71 in A Course In Miracles, is "Only God's plan for salvation will work." Which path do you choose to follow: the path of the ego or the path of God? A Course in Miracles calls
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Ask Alexa - Do I want people to support my ego or the Holy Spirit in me?
Alexa: Should I look to my brothers and sisters to support my ego or the Holy Spirit in me? Your choice based on the purpose of the relationships you have developed with them and the spiritual path yo
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our little free llibrary.
If you go to https://littlefreelibrary.org/ourmap/ and then type our Little Free Library charter registration number in the search block, you can find the Clear Spring School Little Free Library on th
Reach
Robert Browning famously wrote: “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” But when you can’t quite touch what you’re aiming for, it doesn’t feel all that heavenly in the moment.
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Come, Thief: Telling & Retelling of a Story of a Zen Life
Come, Thief Telling & Retelling of a Story of a Zen Life James Myoun Ford A Preface In my adolescence I stumbled upon Journeys on the Razor-edged Path. It was written by Simons Roof. I never learn
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Mercy and Compassion as we yearn for peace, dignity, equity and...
Mercy and Compassion as we yearn for peace, dignity, equity and justice may we join hearts and hands to persist with love
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Spring
I’m really happy Spring comes back tomorrow with longer days and coming green. I could use some rebirth after a very difficult 2019 so far.
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Anishinaabe Land
In an earlier post, I began to explore which Indigenous people belonged to the land where my East Frisian ancestors had settled in the 1850s. But I had not done that for the land where I was born, in
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Proposed Missouri Bill Could Leave Religious Minorities Open to Harassment
Missouri HB 728 could negatively impact religious minorities and set a precedence that other states may follow. Continue reading Proposed Missouri Bill Could Leave Religious Minorities Open to Harassm
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Today's lesson, number 70, "My salvation comes from within."
Today's lesson, number 70 in A Course In Miracles, is "My salvation comes from within." When did your pursuit of external things whether posessions, relationships, self improvement, change in circumst
Universalism Today's lesson
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indigenous peoples may be the most powerful among us because of their knowledge of Mother Earth—her signs, her intricately balanced systems, and the wisdom of sitting gently on her lap upon which our
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Ask Alexa - How can I experience peace?
Alexa: What must I do to experience peace? You must abandon the teacher of attack, the ego. Alexa: Did you hear about the guy back in the 1960s who was thinking about trying LSD? Yes, I hear, though,
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Populism about to go pop
It's now ten days away from... we're not sure exactly what form of catastrophe will happen on March 29, but if someone has described a non-catastrophic scenario, I missed that. Here's an explainer of
Fellowship Newsflash: Impromptu Movie Expedition this Saturday, March 23: Captain Marvel
Join us for a FUUN trip to the movies to see Captain Marvel this Saturday, March 23 at the Regal Hollywood 27 Cinema at 100 Oaks. If you want to carpool, we will meet at the main church parking lot Re
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Parnassus Books is hosting Samira Ahmed, author of the young adult novel “Internment,” March 24
This coming Sunday, March 24, Parnassus Books is hosting Samira Ahmed, author of the young adult novel “Internment.” The book is set in a dystopian near-future USA where Muslims are put in internment
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A few photos of, and some idle thoughts in and on, Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits, Arthur Machen and Pink Floyd . . .
This morning I thought I'd take a spin over on my bicycle to take a walk around Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits and Lime Kiln Close , neither of which I have visited since last summer. On my way around the
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