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Worship without God? Unio Mystica or Unio Homo?

In the most recent issue of the United Church Observer (February 2011) we have a feature article about the so-called “Post-Theistic” churches that have begun to spring up from within the greater United Church polity. These congregations are taking down their crosses, closing their Bibles, and trying to re-imagine themselves as spiritual beings in their own right.
 
To re-quote the Rev.
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The Pacifist Who Went To War

Last night I watched the documentary by David Neufeld entitled The Pacifist Who Went to War.  It is the story of two Mennonite brothers, their Manitoba community, and the consequences of WWII testing their faith and convictions.  It is an interesting saga in our Canadian history that I suspect few are aware of but also an example of people wrestling with "Big" questions.

 

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What is Faith?

Someone asked the question on another thread, along the lines of:

 

Is faith accepting everything everyone says, and developing your own truth?

 

If it's a fair question to ask, What is faith?  (Not so much the content of what the faith is in, but faith in and of itself)  Is it belief?  Trust?  Hope?  What does the word 'faith' mean to you?

 

Have at it.

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Crying

 I love walking in the rain, 'cause than no -one knows I'm crying (author unknown).  Crying is to me a private, silent healer of my dark nights of the soul.  I remember  a very very close person dying and for the life of me I could not cry...but one day, in the rain, all alone on a busy downtown city bench the tears started and ran as if they would never stop and to my utter amazement they were for me and no one else, not even the deceased. Life is strange if we left it but this moment was a pure atonement, or as I prefer to say, at one moment. 

 

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Free Viewing of One Week on itunes today. The greatest Canadian movie ever to explore god and the menacing of life.

The national post is giving away the movie One Week today in their twelve days of Christmas promotion. Link is here.

http://www.nationalpost.com/12days/index.html

This is a great Canadian movie, which explores one man's search for God / meaning after a diagnoses of Cancer at age 25. He goes on a road trip across Canada, which becomes a celebration of life, and everything Canadian.

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What challenges your faith the most?

And, how do you deal with the challenges, whatever they are?

 



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iWonder: Who Is Jesus?

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