BALANCE BETWEEN…. Thought for the day, 24th March 2024 by Marianna Michell
It’s the period of Lent and this year, the fasting month of Ramadhan overlaps with it. I’ve never seriously undertaken to follow Lent but, for some years, with others, I joined Muslim brothers and sisters to undertake the fast during Ramadhan. Outwardly, it’s 30 days of dawn to sunset without food or drink. That is […]
“Free, creative spirituality / How expressed through our daily lives / I’d really love to hear / How it manifests for you . . .” a Sunday thought for the day by Joy Magezis
Free, creative spiritualityHow expressed through our daily livesI’d really love to hearHow it manifests for you What feeds your spiritBrings meaning to your lifeBuilds, resonates with awarenessOf our precious time on this planet For me, it comes out in poemsDistillation of processTouching, tasting Mother NatureAs a child upon her earth Earth who feeds me again, […]
Follow the links in this post to read the Minister’s current blogposts and listen to his podcast
The minister’s written pieces can be found on his blog: CAUTE – MAKING FOOTPRINTS NOT BLUEPRINTS The minister’s podcast can be listened to at the following links: https://footprints.buzzsprout.com
Accepting the problem posed by Christmas Day but without necessarily accepting the Christian solution
Greetings, and a Happy Christmas to you all.This is just a brief email to send a link this year’s Christmas Day address. Below you will find links to both the written text and the recorded, podcast version. Written text on my blog: Accepting the problem posed by Christmas Day but without necessarily accepting the Christian […]
The subtle deer meets Jesus & Socrates
My address for you this week called, “The subtle deer meets Jesus & Socrates”, can be found in written form on my blog by clicking the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-subtle-deer-meets-jesus-socrates.html or as a recorded podcast at the following link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1378024/6155470 LIVE EVENING ZOOM CONVERSATION If you would like to join a conversation about this piece on […]
The eerie (but not weird) nature of my daily ‘lockdown’ walk
Click on the following link to read this piece on my blog: The eerie (but not weird) nature of my daily ‘lockdown’ walk
Time will tell—‘It is impossible to think in advance of experience, and no experience is merely empirical’
After a long and challenging week (as I know it will have been for all of you) and having spent an entire day (Saturday) from dawn until dusk writing the following piece I find that, as 9pm approaches, I can no longer tell whether it contains anything more than mere, arrant nonsense. It’s certainly a flawed and […]
More thoughts about naps on boats and biblical counterblows to [neoliberal, capitalist] oppression
INTRODUCTION This address is in fact two addresses or, to be a bit accurate, there is a meta-address as well as the one obviously given below. The meta-address concerns the fact that, in liberal religious circles (the one I most often inhabit and in which this address was given) most of our time is spent pro-fanum, i. […]