Ashton Kutcher’s Facebook Religion

It is hard to know exactly what Asthon Kutcher said yesterday at CTIA2013 in the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas. The reports are not entirely clear.

Spirituality May Be Hazardous To Your Health

A recent study out of University College London, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, makes some startling claims about people who identify themselves as spiritual but do not connect to any formal religion.

Questioning “My Lack of Faith” #4

The thing I find so appealing about this “Questioning ‘My Lack of Faith’” conversation is the honesty, openness, and non-defensiveness of my correspondent.

Questioning “My Lack of Faith” #2

Yesterday I wrote about a person who is experiencing a “that lack of faith” and finding that experience called into question. I wondered what is really going on when someone claims to experience “a lack of faith.”

Terror In Boston

In a tiny way I came closer than I ever want to come yesterday to feeling personally the impact of terrorism.

To read this post please see:

http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/blogs/spiritually-speaking-1.61091/terror-in-boston-1.111555

A Ditch Worth Dying In

The number of ditches worth dying in seems to diminish as I age. There are just fewer battles worth waging.

Weakness

Jean Vanier knows a bit about the frailty of the human condition.

Is This The Future?

It does not happen often that I get to spend a day in the company of teenagers. Yesterday I had that privilege.

The Way to Community

The epistle reading appointed in the lectionary to be read yesterday has a problem. It stops too early.

Is Community Possible?

Pity the poor preacher who chooses this coming Sunday to preach on the epistle reading appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary. This week would feel a lot lighter without having to spend it wrestling with I Corinthians 12:12-31a.