The Center for Spiritual Living
I'm going to church, today. The place where I go to church (when I do) is called the Center for Spiritual Living. Here’s the website: http://www.spiritualliving.org/
It’s difficult to describe this church, except to say that - while I generally do not go to churches that are large, this is the one exception. It’s the only church I’ve been to where I feel like I can be completely myself, and not have to worry about what people are going to think.
Their “what we believe” page says this: “Our faith is not a revelation of some particular individual or of any one group. Rather, it is a correlation of the most empowering truths found in religious texts and the discoveries of science. We start with the simple proposition that God, known to many by many names and traditions, is an immediate Presence not only around but also within every person. We believe in a power greater than ourselves. We believe that an invisible law, force, and intelligence governs everything in the universe. We, as individuals, endeavor to discover our immediate relationship to that Power and become partners in Its activities.”
The webpages no longer say much if anything at all that I can find about it being a branch of the Church of Religious Science (which is not the same thing as Christian Scientists). Wikipedia explains the church pretty well, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science
Anyhow, I plan on attending every Sunday from now on until further notice. :) I might even join the choir.
It’s difficult to describe this church, except to say that - while I generally do not go to churches that are large, this is the one exception. It’s the only church I’ve been to where I feel like I can be completely myself, and not have to worry about what people are going to think.
Their “what we believe” page says this: “Our faith is not a revelation of some particular individual or of any one group. Rather, it is a correlation of the most empowering truths found in religious texts and the discoveries of science. We start with the simple proposition that God, known to many by many names and traditions, is an immediate Presence not only around but also within every person. We believe in a power greater than ourselves. We believe that an invisible law, force, and intelligence governs everything in the universe. We, as individuals, endeavor to discover our immediate relationship to that Power and become partners in Its activities.”
The webpages no longer say much if anything at all that I can find about it being a branch of the Church of Religious Science (which is not the same thing as Christian Scientists). Wikipedia explains the church pretty well, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science
Anyhow, I plan on attending every Sunday from now on until further notice. :) I might even join the choir.