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Grateful for you! ~The SBNR Team
Today’s Teaching:
“The sacred is here and now. The only God worth keeping is a God that cannot be kept.”
From: I and Thou
By Martin Buber
Community Updates:
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Today’s Meditation:
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~ Og Mandino
Spirituality Posts:
1. Stephen Prothero: My Take: Religious Cities are Among the Most Violent
“…every one of America’s “holy hometowns” had a crime rate above the national average, and each was ranked among the most dangerous half of American cities.”
2. Dr. Andrew Newberg: Do Different Religious Practices Change the Brain Differently?
“Our research using brain imaging studies suggests that there is a large network in the brain that appears to get involved when people are engaged in religious/spiritual practices…The particular practice and particular experience will ultimately activate (or deactivate) these structures in different ways.”
3. Bron Taylor: Happy Solstice! – Or is it?
“Progressives may ridicule those who claim that there is now a cultural “War on Christmas” but Christian conservatives do have reason to worry. They know that their cultural influence has been waning, and that those with evolutionary and ecological worldviews are growing in number and influence.”
Top Spirituality News:
1. VOA News: Religious Freedom in China
“The Chinese government has banned certain religious and spiritual groups.”
2. The Telegraph: Thousands of Germans Quit Catholic Church
“Thousands of Germans have quit the Catholic Church in the wake of a series of sex and corruption scandals that have left the institution reeling.”
3. News Observer: She’s Cruisin’ to the Rapture: May 21, 2011
“From her Subaru, a car painted as white as the fourth horse of Revelation, Allison Warden proclaims that Jesus Christ shall return May 21…to Warden and hundreds of like-minded Christians, Judgment Day can be calculated precisely by tracing biblical genealogy, or by following history forward 7,000 years from the day Noah shut the door to his ark.”
