Floods of Light from Spiritual Ecology
What is the connection between modern-day spirituality and ecological concerns? How does the first century, Christian, Biblical world translate into ethical actions in the 21st century? How do the various world religions integrate their spirituality with ecology? FORE is a good place to start finding answers. Mary Evelyn Tucker is the co-founder and co-director with [...]
Take Something On For Lent
Lutheran Pastor Keith Anderson reminds us ”don’t just give something up, take something on.” More specifically, he is suggesting that the notion of giving up Facebook would be cutting ourselves off significant avenues of meaningful connections. Instead of taking a break, he suggests “make social media your Lenten devotion: leave supportive comments,…
Sacred Pixels
Social media and virtual reality is changing the sacred meaning of texts – even as the meaning of that word has shifted from something that is printed or digitally represented to cryptic communications over smartphones. Sacred Pixels is an program produced by Elizabeth Drescher and Paul Soukup and at Santa…
World Interfaith Harmony Week
The first week of February, 1-7, is observed worldwide as World Interfaith Harmony Week. The observance arose out of the work of the Common Word initiative, in which Muslim scholars, religious leaders and thinkers sought to recognize the common ground on which Islam and Christianity are built. The World Interfaith Harmony Week…
A New American Religion?
President Obama’s inauguration speech has been referred to as “a new American religion” by Diana Butler Bass in a January 25, 2013 Guest Voices article in the Washington Post – “ a masterwork of progressive theology: a public sermon on the meaning of America, a creedal statement and a call to…
We Are Family
What makes a family and who decides? The 111th Earl Lectures and Leadership Conference, to be held January 29-31, 2013 at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA will discuss the topic. The theme this year is “We Are Family: Real Families, Real Faith, in the Real World.” This year’s conference…
A Coming Together of Voices
The emergent church movement has often been described as a conversation. January 11-12, 2013 in Memphis, TN is a coming together of the voices – a SOLD OUT event called: Emergence Christianity: A National Gathering with Phyllis Tickle and Friends. Phyllis’ friends adding their unique voice to the conversation include: Doug Pagitt, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Anthony Smith, Tony Jones, Peter Rollins, Jay Bakker, Diana [...]
The Rise of Nones
The graph above illustrates the shifts in young adult (ages 23-35) Protestant affiliation between 1972 and 2010 as compiled by Lifeway Research using data from the General Social Survey. The Pew Forum and Public Life found that almost a third of adults under 30 are “religiously unaffiliated” or Nones> Greg…
