The classification of the European era between the decline of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance as the “Dark Ages” is now rejected by most modern historians.During the early Middle Ages, significant literary and educational advances (especially during the period known as the Carolingian Renaissance) were made, including the foundations of the modern university, as…
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What is the real me?
What is the real me? It is certainly more than the matter of my body, because that it changing all the time. The atoms are always changing – but in some sense it is the pattern of how the atoms are formed. That, I think, is what the soul is (agreeing with Thomas Aquinas). It…
Death as A Mode Of Living
…just like Alcoholics Anonymous is the place where you go when you’ve got dependence on alcohol, the community of believers should be the place you go because you’ve got a dependency on religion. …and this for me is the good news of Christianity. It’s not that we repress our anxieties and we “believe” in God…
Is Religion a ‘Virus of the Mind?’
[I]t seems I was wrong and the idea of religions as “viruses of the mind” may have had its day. … [U]nless we twist the concept of a “virus” to include something helpful and adaptive to its host as well as something harmful, it simply does not apply. … This is how science (unlike religion)…
My Interpretation of the LOST Finale
I searched for the root meaning of the word “Religion” and found what I knew I would find: Might we consider ‘re’ + ‘ligare’ (Latin) so to imply that the essence and most noble purpose for any religion is “To reconnect”, such a reunion repairing the illusion of separation, of being torn from the whole,…
Why I Don’t Believe In Miracles
I thought Doug Pagitt’s thoughts here about miracles were right on! I have really liked thinking about miracles lately as Heaven literally breaking through and becoming visible in our world. A miracle is not something that is outlandish and impossible, rather a miracle is a demonstration of how things are supposed to be.
Few Can Resist the Power
“No mistake or crime is more horrible to God than those committed by power. Why? Because what is official is impersonal, and being impersonal is the greatest insult that can be paid to a person.” ~Kierkegaard The more I live and the more time I have to observe the world around me, the more clearly…
The Lord’s Prayer Mennonite Style
Abba Father God, Bless your holy name. Let your reign come now, Let your desires be carried out. Bring your peace to birth, As in heav’n, so on Earth Give us bread, daily; Free us, as we free. When the way is hard, Be our guide and guard. Your rule, power; and praise Reign supreme,…
In case you didn’t know, faith and reason are NOT in conflict. | Art by Jordan Kasey
Albert Einstein once famously stated that “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” I for one agree with him completely. Religion and science, regardless of what you read about in the newspapers as it relates to these conflicts, can very much co-exist quite well. The above quote comes from Dr. Thomas Plante’s…
Karen Armstrong Believes That Religion and Art are Allies
Religion was never supposed to provide answers to questions that lay within the reach of human reason… Religion’s task, closely allied to that of art, was to help us to live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there were no easy explanations and problems that we could not solve; morality, pain, grief,…