Spiritual Mutt

A little over four years ago I lost a job as a glorified manager for a non-profit facility whose board of directors (well, one person in pa...

Not sure when this happened but I believe. It's the strangest thing. As I contine digesting The Roots of Christian Mysticism with hi...

But now [are they] many members, yet but one body. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it ; if {one} member is honored, a...

Jesus did not come to save you . Jesus came and restored fallen humanity, of which you are a part. This doesn't mean God isn't th...

I was talking with a friend of mine today who is head of Catholic Charities Services, the agency I worked for while working with the homeles...

The root cause of the current economic situation is not the banks, nor the government, nor corporations, nor the decline in manufacturing. ...

Q: Can someone explain to me the doctrine of the trinity? A: It's something of a mental framework through which to filter what we find i...

"Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, "One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor...

Any longlasting and effective change has come when the people get together and speak up. Most recently we saw this in the U.S. elections. ...

Every so often, a lyric, or a poem, or a song comes along and just knocks you to your senses. I've lately been reading up on workers...

Am I any less of a believer because I don't look to the Bible to be the scientifically verifiable, mathematical precise truth? In other...

The film Baraka is re-released with a new, updated transfer and remastered edition. There is also a Blu-Ray version out. Now, I can get th...

And we continue: Quote: Originally Posted by CaliberCadillac Whether or not the early Church Fathers “made the connection” is som...

This was part of a debate. My responses are in blue. Quote: Originally Posted by CaliberCadillac Your argument is based on the Wat...

Well, we aren't a megachurch yet. We're one of the area's biggest churches having just added a several million dollar sanctuary...

All this downloading...am I just a user, a taker, a hoarder? I am feeding myself until full. What am I giving back? Is this gluttony?

Wisdom of Solomon, Chapter 2:12-20: "Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean co...

Still working on it... Having been living with it for as long as I can remember, in hindsight much of it has to do with not getting my way. ...

Complete self-absorption. It's really that simple. Depression basically says "It's all about me." Even though that ...

I feel this bursting in my soul but I can't seem to fully let go, to fully surrender. I still wish to cling to an understanding of it, ...