Posted in religion, tagged Christ, Easter, Jesus, spirituality on March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The underlying theme of Easter is death and resurrection. And today, “Good Friday” Christians commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus at Calvary . That name, “Good Friday” is a very interesting and philosophical one, quite far in spirit from the current message [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, religion, spirituality, theosophical society on March 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m getting into the sociology of modernity, for my bachelors paper. Anthony Giddens is one of the primary sociologists in that field. He wrote:
The problem for us - those who wish to see a cosmopolitan world prosper - is to reconcile commitment and skepticism.
(From Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity, p. 132)
This is [...]
Posted in religion, science, tagged religion, science, spirituality on March 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Religion has a bad name in alternative circles. It’s associated with the Christian church and all it’s crimes (real and perceived). Religion is associated with dogma, stifling rules that don’t fit our day to day lives and worse of all: authority. A preacher to tell me what to do in my personal life? Never!
In my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged spirituality on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This question has been on my mind lately.
That we even talk about certain experiences being spiritual reveals a mark of otherness. For most of us, only rare moments earn the denomination. Yet one of the most consistent claims proceeding from examinations of such experiences is the fundamentally spiritual nature of total reality, the [...]
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