Ponderings and Wonderings

[...] read something that would help me with resolution 3 and so I picked, The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight. I did not expect this little book to change so much of my attitude about everything, but this [...]

[...] is central to the Jain faith. The goal of a Jain is to someday achieve liberation from the karmic cycle (known as Moksha). The karmic cycle of death and rebirth is constant in the Jain faith. In [...]

[...] and half of Exodus, I find myself pondering the subject of miracles. I'm at my first "Blue Parakeet" kind of moment here where I try to discern which (if any miracles) are important to [...]

[...] decided that I would read something that would help me with resolution 3 and so I picked, The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight. I did not expect this little book to change so much of my attitude about [...]

[...] the word “employment” for my husband and me) aren’t actually being heard by God. Maybe Richard Dawkins is right and I should become an atheist. And perhaps my problem is that I have a primitive, [...]

[...] feel as skeptical and uncomfortable with these descriptions of mystical experiences as Richard Dawkins would. Of course, some of the questions that this book got me to ask had to do with the [...]

[...] . Rankin asserts that our western values predispose us to believe that life has to consist of either/or choices (and that even the concept of choice means that we thereby exclude other options thereby [...]

[...] he also makes a case throughout the book for eschewing the typically western assumption that God exists outside our natural world off in "heaven" and occasionally interacts in " [...]

[...] that can be defined. God cannot fit into a neat, little box of human understanding. How God exists is not something that can be explained. Sure, we can discuss probability and whether or not it [...]

[...] would also like to learn how other religions view things. It does occur to me that one of my basic assumptions about ideas was actually rooted in Darwinism. I believed that whatever the truth is, it [...]

[...] would. Of course, some of the questions that this book got me to ask had to do with the basic assumptions with which we approach spirituality. I wonder how much of our Western understanding is based [...]

[...] God. When I was a teenager, I used to lie on my back and stare up at the stars after watching Carl Sagan blather on about all the life. I would go to church and hear about a small god who probably [...]

[...] literal days because "the Bible says so," I'm not (having been fully indoctrinated by Carl Sagan and all). Reading Genesis didn't change that. And yet I find the story of Adam and Eve a [...]

[...] reading Exodus in the Bible. I've started my second book - a commentary on Revelation by Eugene Boring and that will be my second book review when I finish it. And here's another sobering thought. [...]

[...] Ministries and this was this month's selection. I'm still working on the Revelation book by Eugene Boring a well as a book called Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. I'm posting here what Wayne Teasdale [...]