I'm telling you in advance. This is a loooong post. Super long. I have put it in 'chapters' to help ease the progress ( Read more... )

I know most people on my flist aren't that in to religion, but I do work for the church, and my time living in the monastery was the most meaningful thing I have ever experienced, so please excuse my enthusiasm for this side of things. It is where my musings tend to lead...

Reading has taken an upturn. I finally finished 'The Jesuit Guide to ( ( Read more... )

The rich man who asked Jesus "what do I need to do to inherit eternal life?"

Jesus' reponse was prett much, "You know the 10 commandments. It's pretty clear, isn't it?"

The rich man was somehow disatisfied. "But I've done that. Isn't there something else I can do?"

"You really want to do something. Okay, well, if you are really serious about ( Read more... )

I can't say that I 'believe' that Jesus Christ is the son of God. And this isn't just a lead-in to claiming to 'know ( Read more... )

Organising our next Young Adults group. I have been brainstorming a bit what we could do. I want to do something that I find meaningful, and that I believe could provide some spiritual nourishment for people ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my previous (friends-only) post that I don't want to have children, and that a big part of that is not trusting the world.

My exact thought was "the world is not worthy of my children" and "I love them too much ( Read more... )

I had a question posed to me by an intelligent and respected athiest friend of mine in response to my previous LJ post.

He asked: "What exactly is it you've experienced? You call it God, which is fine. But what is it that ties this sense of God to the doctrines you've also encountered? I don't want to question your experiences, this would be ( Read more... )

Stephen Fry makes some truly excellent points about religion, and his reasons for not believing in God are intelligent and well-argued. I enjoy listening to his justification for atheism and his explanations about why it is the logical conclusion. He argues with insight and a penetrating mind, and I feel like when I listen to him I am shown into ( Read more... )

I have been having the most wonderful time in my work ( Read more... )

In the Church, there is certain language that is often used when we refer to God. It is the language of the centuries. We hear things like "Almighty Lord" or "Heavenly Father". Upon hearing such terms, I see in my mind all those drawings that one finds in illustrated Bible's, or on dated Christmas cards my grandmother would send, and I would see a ( Read more... )