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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Reminder: Come to the Co-Creation meeting on the 22nd (This WEEK) 12:30 at St. Matts
I wrote a facebook note about how excited I am for Spirit of Truth to take on and defeat the Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment. I encourage you to write one too!
You can see it after the break if you are interested.
But first one of our members (Art) would like me to share this with you:
If Cuba ("that freedom hating, anti religious, commie dictatorship") is supportive of Gay Rights why not us?
and George Clooney too!
and Coretta Scott King (wife of the late Martin Luther King Jr) Supports Gay Rights too!
So join us this Sunday Jan 22 at 12:30 to start pondering over what you and I are gonna do to contribute in the struggle for Justice and Human Rights for all.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Religion, Faith and a God of Love
Reminder: Come to the Co-Creation meeting on the 22nd (NEXT WEEK) 12:30 at St. Matts
This Video has been making the rounds on facebook and youtube lately.
The poet is a contributor on the website http://chiselseason.com/ where a handful of authors speak about their relationship with God and struggles with faith and religion.
The struggle to find God in the religions of the world has always been a challenge to me. I think there has been a trend for a long time of people saying they are spiritual and not religious. This author asks can you be a person of faith and not religious, even anti-religious? he also asks is being "publicly religious" keeping you from faith?
At Spirit of Truth we have been talking about the narratives found in religion:
We promote the religious narrative of love -that teaches that people should be mentally, physically and spiritually free. That there is enough for all if we share. That God loves and so should we. That God wants justice for all and so should we.
and the man-made religious narrative of fear -that injustice is necessary so that we can have security, that hatred and intolerance are okay because there is scarcity and people are not deserving. That God approves of inequality and oppression and so should we.
In the poet's words I think we see a clear contradiction, he is calling out the religious narratives of fear(saying that is religion), while proclaiming those of love and faith in a God of love.
So lets have a discussion (write some comments below):
What do you think about the video?
What do you think about religion vs spirituality vs faith?
What do you think about the narrative of love vs fear?
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Jan 22, 2012 Co-creation meeting on Marriage Equality
Why is Spirit of Truth involved in the campaign to defeat the proposed amendment to the MN Constitution?
Why are we working with Minnesotans United for all Families?
How will Spirit of Truth contribute to this campaign in an important and unique way?
Share your input! Join us at Spirit of Truth Jan 22nd.
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