Mark Twain asked:
But who prays for Satan?
Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Lucifer falling from Heaven by Ricardo Bellver (Daniel Coomber/Flickr)
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My respect for AA is vast. I don’t see any other force in America teaching people to go inside and search out their demons, and heal the wounds they find, with the ferocity and tenacity of AA. A lot of modern people struggle with AA’s admonition to give everything over to a Higher Power, [...] For a sunny Sunday, a prayer from the DinĂ© people. The Night Chant Happily may I walk. May it be beautiful before me. May it be beautiful behind me. May it be beautiful above me. May it be beautiful below me. May I walk in beauty. Southern Utah, photo by Preston Grant [...]
Yours truly with the incomparable Sister Unity There is a famous book by Mircea Eliade, the great scholar of religious experience, called The Sacred and The Profane, where he attempts to explain the difference in how pre-modern man experienced the sacred from the way we do now. In particular he emphasizes that ritual used to [...] The Japanese have a wonderful conception of the divine. They use the word kami (kah-mee). We translate kami as God, but I learned the limitations of translation during my two years as a Mormon missionary in Japan. As Christians, we were explaining a religion where the word God refers to a singular entity. The [...]
Jesus (Giovanni Bellini) John Shore is a Christian blogger who engages gay issues directly, taking on homosexuality as a part of being human instead of a sign of being broken. This makes him a rare bird indeed. Trying to sort out confused Christians is not a major goal of mine, beyond wanting to mitigate [...] After news reports of gay teen suicides resulting from social conservatives insistence that being gay is a moral failing, it is time to revisit South Park‘s take on the subject. Meet Ryan, Butter’s accountabilibuddy, who learns the Christian way out of evil homosexuality… It is quite the indictment of a church when the cracked creators [...] |
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