Tag: Being

• “For All Beings”

  Here, from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, teacher and author, is a beautiful, meaningful, moving, timelessly relevant, “if only” vision of humanity at its very best.  It’s also ‘religion’ at its very best. It comes from the ‘beating heart’ of Buddhism, but surely also from that of Christianity, and all other religions worthy of the name. It…

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  7th Mar 2023

  Buddhism, Christianity, Current Affairs, Literature, Philosophy, Religion

  Aspiration, Being, Buddhism, Christianity, Humanity, Inspiration, Life, Religion, vision, World

• A ‘Renegade’ Bishop and God

  The recently deceased Bishop John Shelby Spong stayed in the Episcopal Church, though no longer able to accept many traditional teachings at face value. To be true to themselves, people must either leave, or seek change from within. Choosing pursuit of change, Bishop Spong wrote the book “Unbelievable” in which, like the reformer Martin Luther,…

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  22nd Jan 2023

  Christianity, Consciousness, History, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Being, Bishop Spong, Church, Design, God, Luther, Materialism, Reformation, Spirit, Theism