http://netvouz.com/garoldstone/tag/spirituality?feed=rss&pg=1 garoldstone's bookmarks tagged "spirituality" on Netvouz http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/20586.php?index=20586&lang=en#TESTO IN LINGUA INGLESE Introduction: The Second Vatican Council, with its Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium, and its Decrees on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio) and the Oriental Churches (Orientalium Ecclesiarum), has contributed in a decisive way to the renewal of Catholic ecclesiolgy. The Supreme Pontiffs have also contributed to this renewal by offering their own insights and orientations for praxis: Paul VI in his Encyclical Letter Ecclesiam suam (1964) and John Paul II in his Encyclical Letter Ut unum sint (1995). June 29, 2007 garoldstone Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:19:34 GMT http://www.dcmilitary.com/stories/080207/journal_27977.shtml Service members returning home from various overseas assignments in support of the Global War on Terrorism were treated to a heroes welcome Saturday at Baltimore Washington International Airport. Aug 2, 2007 garoldstone Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:58:30 GMT http://cas.fiu.edu/SpiritualityCenter/Herald.htm It took an Orthodox Jew, a former Sufi dervish, a Tibetan Buddhist yogi and a friend of the Dalai Lama to persuade Florida International University to start a center for the study of spirituality. Katz, the founder of FIU`s religion department, started the Center for the Study of Spirituality to explore territory most academics wouldn`t touch: the vast (and somewhat oxymoronic) field of "secular spirituality.`` garoldstone Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:45:01 GMT http://tangents.home.att.net/issue/secspiri.htm The word spirit has many connotations, from fairies to ghosts to intoxicating drink. But in the context of spirituality, it is most closely identified with "the vital principle or animating force within living beings." As such, the word spirit expresses living human conscious awareness, vitality, and aesthetic sense, which distinguishes the subjective human experience from mere mechanical survival. garoldstone Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:52:45 GMT http://www.uujax.org/publications/SecularSpiritualityinaFundamentalistWorld10-11-05.pdf.pdf Much of the modern world is increasingly secular. Unitarian Universalists are generally pleased that this is so. We are opposed to the narrowness and irrationality inherent in dogma and against the anti-scientific and undemocratic tendencies in fundamentalism. A more secular world seems like progress to us over the ignorance and superstitions of much of religious history. garoldstone Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:20:12 GMT http://www.wkconline.org/resources/powerpoint/2004_religion_Killen_Shibley.ppt garoldstone Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:34:19 GMT http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics/2006/09/brian-mclaren-three-values-for-voters_26.html Brian McLaren: Three Values for Voters to Consider We've asked other members of the God's Politics Blog team to respond to the question that Jim Wallis and Ralph Reed debated last week: "What should values voters value most?" For me, a whole constellation of issues coalesce around three values that I find rooted in Scripture and especially the teachings of Jesus. Sep 26, 2006 garoldstone Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:14:59 GMT http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200512_an_atheist_manifesto/ At a time when fundamentalist religion has an unparalleled influence in the highest government levels in the United States, and religion-based terror dominates the world stage, Sam Harris argues that progressive tolerance of faith-based unreason is as great a menace as religion itself. garoldstone Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:19:53 GMT http://universist.org/ Universism | Future of Religion is Faithless | Freethought Religion Philosophy (p)(f) garoldstone Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:33:41 GMT http://humanist.madisonwi.us/UUIdb.htm Some religious leaders and theologians, like the Dalai Lama and George Fox, are calling for spirituality distinct from religion. The Dalai Lama, in fact, calls for a "secular spirituality" based on compassion and love, and on scientific research into matters like meditation garoldstone Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:48:43 GMT