Reflections on the Journey in Christ by Christopher Page
July 31, 2012 in Religion, Spirituality | Tags: Rabbi Scott Perlo, Religion, Spirituality
Scott Perlo is the Rabbi of Adat Shalom in West Los Angeles. Like most leaders who work professionally in the religious world today he has encountered people who claim to be “spiritual but not religious.”
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July 31, 2012 at 1:04 pm
lindsay
If spirituality is deeply personal, ethereal and the seed of faith and hope and relationship and beauty, and religion is deeply communal and practical where faith and hope and relationship are practiced in day-to-day living across time from generation-to-generation, then both spirituality and religion, it seems to me, are motivated to preserve relationship with God and with each other. Both are are so inter-woven and inter-dependent. Perhaps one without the other risks being hollow and shallow lip-service, lacking strong foundation? Yea, I’m thinking this what Scott Perlo is saying makes sense … to me.
July 31, 2012 at 1:05 pm
lindsay
A little bit off topic … looking at the Pew Study Scott Perlo references http://www.pewforum.org/The-Stronger-Sex—-Spiritually-Speaking.aspx … this is interesting … I am wondering whether the role masculine and feminine spirituality plays is different and whether and to what extent changing perceptions about masculine and feminine roles in the West might change affiliation to religion and church attendance? It seems looking at the graph the gap between women and men is quite constant whether on scores of spirituality or religion. I’m wondering what this graph would have looked like 100 years ago, or 200 years or 1,000 years. And I’m wondering why there is this gap?
And whether if it’s true as Faith Popcorn says men are starting to take an interest in more traditional feminine pursuits, such as flower arranging, as women are taking on more traditional masculine roles now accounting for more than 50% of the established workforce, … then perhaps the male-female gap might change as masculine interest in spirituality and religion might start to become more apparent over the next few years … I’m wondering if any research is being done on male spirituality? It would be an interesting study …
And why is it that so many men go to St Philips? I might be wrong but it seems to me on any given day there seems to be at least as many men as women who go to St Philips. And how is this possibly different from other churches?
With all the bums-in-pews number crunching has anyone thought to ask about counts based on gender and why this might be? Just curious … ?