Spiritual Mutt

What does it mean to say that it is harder for a rich man to enter heaven? I would say the primary reason would be either comfort and secur...

As El-Zein notes, one of the major feature of the 'New Sufism' is the fact that the majority of the translations of Rumi's vers...

Religion, like most things in America, is a commodity. When someone finds a market for something, it grows and grows as others jump on the...

Can you be a Christian and a Muslim? I suppose you can to a point. I tried it for many years and was good at it. So good, in fact, that i...

How fitting: Episcopal minister is a Muslim I remember when this story first broke. I was just emerging from calling myself Chrisl...

Last night was the performance of an Oratorio as created by Darren Thomas . He is worship leader at the church where I was baptized and sp...

This is my copy of the Qur'an. It is one of several translations I now own but his was the first. I bought it brand new in 1996. Had ...

How can this be? After such a spiritual rush the past few weeks, it seems odd that I am feeling so low now. Has my perception changed? Am...

Beginning sometime around 1996, my interest and love affair with Islam began. It was a great time of spiritual growth and my studies in Isl...

"For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, {as to} what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, ...

With all this free music available to download and well over 100 GB of music stored on various hard drives, is it any wonder I can't lis...

Why did I dream about getting high last night? It's been over ten years. Could be the stress load, the addiction diverted, could be al...

Not saying they are good poems or even poems at all but dug them up out of some old writings and found them interesting, even if only as exp...

I had this really weird dream. I’m not sure how I got there but I was part of a tour group that I didn’t know. I had kinda tagged along. ...

"If one speaks of God it is always, for the Eastern Church, in the concrete...It is always the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Ghost....

And so it goes that with a great revelation, a great experience in the presence of God that we come back "down" and find ourselves...

I remember talking to my professor of Islam about theology, though Islam doesn't really have "theology" proper in the way Chri...

It's the middle of 1993. Working in the cell phone industry which was just becoming huge, I was a top sales rep, making top commission...

"Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature : old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 ...

Just musing on this at work today. I have plenty of time. Imagine putting a part on a machine press, pushing a button, taking the part of...