Bogosity

I was just reading about a family who went through the most awful trauma. After being forced to travel by foot for several days, while the wife was heavily pregnant, they were unable to access accommodation and the woman was forced to give birth in very unsanitary conditions and in utter disgrace. One [...]

Our ethics and values in todays society are mostly a bit muddy but maybe they are getting clearer.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why it is that you have certain ethics and values? I mean sometimes being a “good” person can get in the way. Have you ever just thought hang it all, [...]

I really dug Duncan’s post yesterday about reconciliation and saying sorry and it made me think also about something mr Spong had said in a talk of his I listened to last week.

First Duncan:

Saying sorry is not about shame John. Collective responsibility for a nation’s past does not need to begin or end with [...]

“A Guide to Grown-Up Thinking” in the latest New Internationalist (Big Babies issue) asserts that society has become infantile and that this is reinforced by politics, consumerism and religion. But by dismissing religion wholesale, they are also dismissing forms of religion that would help us to grow up. Must we throw the baby [...]

I know I sometimes live under a rock but have emerged to find all this stuff about Burma (or Myanmar) turning nasty. I had heard there was something going down but didn’t realise the extent of the violence. My prayers are with them.

I almost forgot to reveal the answer to last week’s homework about how to exist with dignity and honesty in a society where you feel you have to hide parts of yourself most of the time.

The truth is that you can’t. I think Jesus demonstrated that to us fairly strongly, as have the many [...]

Brother William’s most recent blog post dicusses St Francis, nature, the environmental crisis, mysticism, the meaning of life and of course, qantum physics (I challenge William to write a blog post that doesn’t mention qantum physics).

The Divine Universe » THE HEAVENLY FOOL

Here’s a few bits that I really liked:

The resurgence of mysticism in the West, [...]