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What Is “The Fourth Turning of Buddhism”?

Last updated on: May 29, 2015 at 8:28 am By Carl Gregg

Ken Wilber (1949-) is a contemporary American philosopher who has written a host of books related to what he calls his Integral Theory. And in general I find many of his frameworks for thinking about the world both helpful personally as well as particularly relevant for navigating our pluralistic, postmodern world. As the name “Integral Theory” implies, Wilber seeks to integrate the best of all available sources of knowledge and experience related to any given field. If you are interested... Read more

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2015-05-04T13:37:52-04:00

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Betting on Earth’s Future

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:37 pm By Carl Gregg

Before the 16th-century Scientific Revolution, it used to be more reasonable to hold the worldview that we humans were at the center of “life, the universe, and everything.” According to the ancient Ptolemaic model of the universe, our planet was stationary, and the sun, moon, and stars revolved around us. But after Copernicus’s 1543 book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, our planet was shown to be merely the “third rock from the sun.” And we have come to... Read more

2015-05-04T13:37:34-04:00

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“The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene”

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:37 pm By Carl Gregg

Some of you may remember the controversy in the late 1980s when the film director Martin Scorsese released his screen adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel The Last Temptation of Christ. One reason I remember the uproar is because my father owned a video rental business, and when this film was released on VHS, local pastors in our hometown of Florence, South Carolina petitioned my dad to remove the film from the shelves because they perceived it as offensive. Although I... Read more

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2015-05-04T13:37:09-04:00

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What Do We Mean We When Say, “Building the Beloved Community”?

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:37 pm By Carl Gregg

In progressive religious circles, you will often hear calls to “build the Beloved Community,” but I’m not sure we always appreciate the full historic resonance of that phrase. The term “Beloved Community” was coined by the early twentieth-century American philosopher Josiah Royce (1855-1916). But most of us learned it not from Royce but from The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who often spoke of the “Beloved Community” as his ultimate goal. As an early example, after the Montgomery Bus Boycotts... Read more

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2015-05-04T13:36:52-04:00

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The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity: Theodore Parker and the Transcendentalist Revolt

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:36 pm By Carl Gregg

“[I invite you to] imagine you are in Boston some summer Sunday morning in the mid 1850s. You decide to go hear Theodore Parker, the famous Transcendentalist minister, preach to the 28th Congregational Society. Having never been, you arrange to accompany a friend who attends regularly. As the two of you turn the corner from Tremont onto Winter Street, you are struck by the sheer size of the crowd gathered there. The sight of nearly three thousand people massing for... Read more

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2015-05-04T13:36:35-04:00

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“A God That Could Be Real”

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:36 pm By Carl Gregg

After Copernicus, we know that Earth is not at the center of the universe. Our planet is merely the “third rock from the sun” on the edge of one spiral galaxy, which in turn is merely one among more than a billion galaxies in the universe. After Darwin, we know that we humans are not “a little lower than the angels,” but merely “a little higher than the apes.” These are but two of the paradigm-shifting ways that science has de-centered... Read more

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2015-05-04T13:36:09-04:00

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“The Selma Awakening”

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:36 pm By Carl Gregg

I have posted previously on “Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall: Claiming Our Social Justice Story” in which I invited us to reflect on the activist legacy in this country. And today during the 50th anniversary month of the Selma to Montgomery Marches, the core questions I will be inviting us to reflect on is when the calls come to take action for social, economic, and environmental justice, will we stand up, will we speak up, will we show up? To begin to... Read more

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2015-05-04T13:35:13-04:00

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The Generosity Path

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:35 pm By Carl Gregg

The Jewish tradition, with its tremendous respect for all we have inherited from previous generations, reminds us that we often find ourselves “living in houses which we did not build, drinking from wells which we did not dig, and eating from trees which we did not plant.” In that spirit, I invite you to take a few moments to recall: a time when someone offered you tremendous generosity. It could have been a gift of time, intelligence, money, caring, or... Read more

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2015-05-04T13:34:43-04:00

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Chocolate for Lent

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:34 pm By Carl Gregg

Lent (the forty-day period of preparation for Easter Sunday) has a bad reputation in some quarters as solely negative and dour time. However, the season of Lent is not only a challenge to give up a bad habit (to loosen attachment to the aspects of our lives that unduly occupy our attention), but also an invitation to take on a spiritual practice to refocus ourselves on something positive and healthy. You might take time each day of Lent to: slowly and contemplatively... Read more

2015-05-04T13:34:07-04:00

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An Honest Heretic: Religion, Science, & Dr. Joseph Priestley

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 1:34 pm By Carl Gregg

The future free-thinking minister-scientist Joseph Priestley was born in 1733 to a strict Calvinist family, but by his early twenties he was already experimenting boldly with both theology and science. For the purposes of this post, I will be drawing from the an excellent, accessible, and lively introduction to Priestley, Steven Johnson’s 200-page book The Invention of Air. (If that book leaves you interested in learning more, there is also a recent two-volume biography by Robert Schofield from Penn State University Press, but that weighs in at... Read more

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