Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
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Sermons, meditations, poetry & prayers from the Interfaith Center of Spiritual Growth. More than a New Thought church, we are part of a worldwide movement that began in 1981 with the founding of the first U.S. interfaith seminary. Under the leadership of Rabbi Joseph Gelberman, clergy from several faiths united to address the abiding intolerance of many faith and cultural traditions.
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
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Ministerial Miscellany April 2024 Your Life, Your Story I am wondering how many of us have written out the story of our lives. These days our computers make it very easy. While others may like to read it, the process is actually for ourselves. We are not writing for what our lives could have ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
2M ago
Ministerial Miscellany February 2024 I decided to go back to read A Course in Miracles. I first read parts of it in 1980 and did the Workbook lessons for a couple of years. It seems unremarkable that I still have similar thoughts about the book as I did 44 years ago. I still think there ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
3M ago
Ministerial Miscellany Jan. 2024 Happy peaceful New Year Are you looking for change in the new year? Look for peace. Write as many new resolutions as you want to, and make sure you write something about Peace for yourself and for the world. Where there is war in the world, I want to know about ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
4M ago
Ministerial Miscellany Dec. 2023 Love your life, every little bit. Ever since the onset of the pandemic, when my few in-person contacts with people included the necessity of going to the grocery store. I have been considering the opportunity to go grocery shopping as a “therapeutic” event, one that I will consciously use to give ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
6M ago
Ministerial Miscellany Oct. 2023 Last month, on September 10th, I was very gratified to be host to Marianne Williamson at our Interfaith center. It was an opportunity to welcome many people who otherwise may never have known about our community. To those of you who were not there, we had 178 attending in person and 54 ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
6M ago
Ministerial Miscellany Nov. 2023 From day to day you might find me scribbling notes on envelopes and pieces of paper of all sizes and I get inspired by the words falling into my brain from outer and inner space. This week I looked up one of my favorite quotes. It is by Johann Wolfgang von ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
7M ago
When I was in Chicago 2 weeks ago for the Parliament of World Religions, one thing that surprised me was the huge number of spiritual groups and communities, including many seminaries, that almost seemed like separate Religions on their own, and yet were obviously part of larger groups as well. Some examples of these which ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
9M ago
Be willing to be Foolish I ran across a wonderful quote from the Greek Philosopher Epictetus “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish with regard to external things“. Or as Swami Beyondananda puts it: “attain Fool Realization”. Remember, no one is thinking about us after their initial reaction. They ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
10M ago
“As Good as it Gets” The other morning I was standing in my kitchen making tea for myself as I do every morning and a really good feeling came over me. I said to myself, “This is as good as it gets”. This is hardly a feeling I would expect on an ordinary morning when ..read more
Interfaith Center For Spiritual Growth Blog
10M ago
Ministerial Miscellany June 2023 I am writing this month about freedom, well ahead of the 4th of July holiday, so that we have a chance to really think about this idea. How much do we want freedom? What is it that we are willing to give up in order to feel free? The truth ..read more