Ok, for my first blog EVER on WonderCafe, I'll be telling the world about my beliefs. Start out big, eh?

I know I just posted this in another thread, but thought it would be a good stand-alone thread.

Here's my top 10 (ok, 20) reasons for "belief".  Do you identifiy with any of these?

We have a very diverse range of view points in our local United Church, which on the whole I am really pleased with.  There are times when the service has prayers included it with responsive readings that do not accord with my beliefs.  Today our Minister did a Calvinist reaffirmation service.  When I looked at the service I knew that it really would not fit with my views and that it would be difficult for me to reply back the words of salvation that the bulletin would have me repeat.  He knows that this is difficult for me.  Last year (he does this each year) we jo

Have a heart folks, in the space of the mind is it devoid of thought, like a rapturous empiric (solipsism, experience). If a person projects a moving experience to the people about ... will they get angry as if abstract truth was expressed? Is that moving emotional? Hard people hate such things and the though of letting go even when caressing but not quite getting a grasp of an infinite perception ... an abstract wisdom in a mortal field.

Having immersed myself in the literature of emerging, I now feel better about my place in the Christian Church, specificially the United Church. Although I grew up with the traditional beliefs, I gradually realized, now at the age of 63 that I choose not to believe in the supernatural aspects of our "faith" - that Jesus was the "son of God" who, after his crucifixion, rose from the dead, appeared to the faithful and ascended into heaven..etc.