Has anybody read Being Alive and Having to Die: The Spiritual Odyssey of Forrest Church? I finished it recently and, while it was interesting, I had some reservations about it. Namely, it seemed to cross the line from biography to hagiography, and rather boldly brushed aside some of Church's...
I thought that this issue some of the people that frequent these forums, since so much consideration is given to ethics and morality around here. In my state there's a controversy going on because of a Pissarro painting that the University of Oklahoma is holding. The painting was looted from a...
I'm about to start reading A Chosen Faith by John A. Buehrens and Forrest Church because it seems to be the standard introduction to Unitarian Universalism thought. Also, it was $.75 on Half.com so the price was right :D.
Normally when a book gets recommended over and over again you start to...
A lot of the time it feels that Quaker contributions to American political and social thought is overlooked these days. Let's celebrate their contributions to this nation by listing our favorite Quaker individuals and ideas here with a short explanation on who/what they were. Mine are as...
Recently I've begun volunteering as a respite care/patient visit volunteer at a local hospice. Does anybody else on here have any hospice experience, and, if so, would you mind sharing some of those experiences in a very generic way that doesn't violate any patient confidentiality? Any advice or...
I'm a pretty avid home winemaker. Usually I make a couple gallons a month (which means I tend to give away quite a lot of homemade wine to friends and family). I was just wondering if anybody else here brews beer, cider, wine or mead, and what they've got going at the moment. I just started a...
Has anybody here read the writings of Father Seraphim Rose? Specifically I would like to discuss in-depth the books Nihilism: Root of Revolution in the Modern Age and Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. This is an open invitation to anybody who has read these works; not just Eastern...
Hello everybody. Sorry for waiting until after fifty posts to put up an introduction. My mind tends to be a bit spacey at times and I just didn't get around to it because I've been engrossed in the fantastic posts on the forums. Hopefully I can bring a little bit to the conversations. I tend to...