Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
7 FOLLOWERS
An affirming ministry within the United Church of Canada. This is a community where a diverse gathering of people can explore the best of their humanity and how that might inspire us to live with each other, with nature and the world. SSUC is anything but ordinary: committed to celebrating and exploring truth, compassion, justice and courageous living, the community holds a reverence for the..
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
1d ago
WWJD? In his 77-page novella about Jesus’ second coming, Rick Herrick tells us by having Jesus affirm, “[Y]ou wonderful folks are going to save me by redefining Christianity according to my original message.” For 2,000 years, “Christians have distorted my message, and created their own religion around the myth of personal salvation in heaven.” But “I’m ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
2w ago
“My church,” Terry Kyllo admits, “limited my capacity to relate to people of diverse cultures and traditions….” As a “cradle Christian,” he “was taught that, in Christianity, God calls forth an exclusive in-group….” That was then, this is now: Kyllo, a Lutheran cleric, now serves as executive director of Paths to Understanding, a Washington State organization ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
1M ago
Reading books “written in blood” “[T]he things your books make happen will be things worth happening,” Frederick Buechner vouched. “Things that make the people who read them a little more passionate themselves for their pains, by which I mean a little more alive, a little wiser, a little more beautiful, a little more open to understanding; in ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
1M ago
“My goal in this book,” Carol Rottman acknowledges, “is to inspire and encourage you to press on, using words in ways that are incarnate with meaning.” True, her book is aimed at scriveners, but really anyone would benefit from perusing her one-of-a-kind Writers in the Spirit. Consider such insights as these: Recording on paper your “grief and remorse…will ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
1M ago
March 14th is pi day. Pie = Deliciousness! Pi = Ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The result: an infinite number, starting with 3.14. PIE = One way of celebrating how inclusive we are to 2SLGBTQIA+ people. Public. Intentional. Explicit. Here at SSUC for the last 4 years, we have joined with Affirm ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
2M ago
This Featured Book “can be summed up thus,” blogger Mark Gladman declares: “Where good is done between people, there is God; God is literally the good we do for each other.” It’s as iberlibro.com warrants, “[Michael] Benedikt develops a new way to think about God in this scientific and media-saturated age.” Writing in Jewish Currents, Lawrence Bush supposes that ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
2M ago
“[M]y mouth was saying things my head rejected.” Kate Cohen recalls why she set aside her Jewish faith to become an atheist. Atheism “throws into question what most people believe to be true and normal and right. No wonder we are widely disliked cultural minorities: our very existence makes people feel bad about themselves. An ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
3M ago
“The strenuous efforts of Richard Dawkins, …author of The God Delusion, and crusader for atheism, may be backfiring,” Publishers Weekly declares, pointing to the dozen believers whose stories this Featured Book tells: it “actually prompted them to explore, and ultimately accept religion’s claims to truth, love, and the promise of salvation.” As co-editor Alister McGrath told the ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
4M ago
Peace is elusive, and it’s not just because we’re acutely aware of the violent and warring places in the world; Sadly, this is always happening in different places at different times. Perhaps peace is always elusive, because we all are required to wrestle with this frustrating reality, regardless of when or where we live. Our ..read more
Spiritual Seekers United in Community Blog
5M ago
A God That Could Be Real In its looksee at this text, wildrumpusbooks.com advises, “Give this book to the other questing minds in your family, and brave yourself for heated discussions.” It’s as the publisher, Beacon Press, reckons: author Nancy Abrams, a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist, “explores a radically new way of thinking about ..read more