A Communal Worldview – June 22, 2021
“The delight in hearing one’s own voice is lethal to religion. Religion used to be, and still is for some, a communal worldview about ultimate reality, with the resultant communal rituals and ethics. In most earlier societies, all the people who lived in the same locale endured the same natural disasters, survived the same plagues. […]
A Spiritual People – Feb. 4, 2020
“We didn’t have a religion. We were a spiritual people.” –Oglala Lakota Elder Liz Little
Religion, and Us, Gone Astray
Here we go again. The Pharisees and scribes are confronting the young rebel Jesus because his disciples are not following all the traditional rituals of their religion (Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23). The implication is then that they are going against God. Never mind the overwhelming observation that everything Jesus is about and is shepherding his […]
June 4, 2018
“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes […]
