BishopCraig Podcast- Evolving Visions and Versions of God, Part I April 28, 2013
- Tragedy in Boston: The Message from the Compassionate Heart Community on April 21st April 21, 2013
- Lineage and the Evils of Apostolic Succession April 10, 2013
- Sermon from the Ordination of Yvonne Younes April 8, 2013
- The Buddhist Christian Blog
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Daily Teaching for Saturday, March 30th
Meteorologists and magicians are the only two legal professions in which people get paid to lie to the public. The two illegal professions that do the same are prostitutes and con artists. This is a great spiritual truth that we would do well to … Continue reading
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Tagged career, con artists, lie, magicians, meteorologists, prostitutes, Truth
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Daily Teaching for Friday, March 30th
Chronic illness can be a profound spiritual teacher because it reminds us of the impermanence of all things. The limitations we experience in illness offer us a glimpse into a great truth of life – the truth that those things … Continue reading
On the Road Again
My wife Erin and I are in Minneapolis/St. Paul for the second time in two weeks. Two weeks ago we were here for the funeral of a close friend of Erin’s, this week we are here to celebrate the retirement … Continue reading
Daily Teaching for Thursday, March 28th
We all have those days when nothing seems to go right. Yesterday while I was working my car stereo quit; the charger in the car that I was using to charge my phone and Ipod blew a fuse; when I … Continue reading
It Pulls Me In
I was thinking about my life the other day. To be honest without going into boring detail, the first two decades weren’t very remarkable – in fact, they were pretty shitty. When I was eighteen years old and taking my … Continue reading
Daily Teaching for Wednesday, March 27th
Repeat after me: “There is no Devil. The only being responsible for me feelings, thoughts, and behavior – good, bad, or neutral – is me.”
Feeling Trapped
The question I hear my daughter’s friends ask one another most often may well be, “Do You Know What She Said?” No, I don’t know what she said, and quite honestly I couldn’t be less interested – and it doesn’t much … Continue reading
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Tagged control, freedom, manipulation, opinions, spirituality
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Daily Teaching for Tuesday, March 27th
Shit happens. It’s not really so much the shit that happens, but rather our reaction to it, that gets us in trouble. Being realistic enough to recognize that not everything will go the way we would prefer it to go … Continue reading
Trayvon Martin, the Bigger Picture
By now, most of America is aware of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman. I don’t feel there is a need to review the details of the crime for anyone not living in a … Continue reading
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Tagged dalai lama, morality, non-violence, peace, racism, spirituality, trayvon martin, violence
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Daily Teaching for Monday, March 26th
The road from the preaching of Jesus to the Church might well, from a certain perspective, be called ‘history’s greatest anti-climax’: for it is a road from a moment of ecstatic eschatological expectation to its supposed appropriation but actual negation … Continue reading
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Tagged church, hierarchy, institution, jesus, Rosemary Reuther
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