Saved by Stuart Evans
The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
One of my long-standing frustrations is that people interested in personal growth and spiritual practices often shy away from difficult political topics, while people interested in debating politics often shy away from personal development and spirituality.
Alexander Beiner • The Art of Embodied Sensemaking
authenticity were in themselves problematic, failing to recognize that the idealism of the counterculture would strip them of transcendence too, making divine action flat.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Like the bohemians and the true children of the counterculture, the bobo longs for spirituality, to escape the mundane and search for meaning. But this search is often bound in ideas. Self-help and therapeutic insights are so powerful because they provide the bobo’s mind with new ideas that help her see her way to authenticity.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
What can we do now? Well, there's a
whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I thin
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