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Welcome!! :) luna

OK wil, thank you for the apology. :)

I dress modestly but not for any religious or esp. 'Biblical' reasons. I dress modestly because that is who I am and the image I wish to project. I think the female body is beautiful and certainly nothing to be ashamed of. It's fine to wear a string bikini at the beach or go nude at a nude...

Please don't manipulate my meanings wil. I did not express any 'concern.' My post is explicitly neutral on the point. If you want to take the point up for debate that's fine for you, but don't project any kind of 'concern' about it onto me.

I think that for all of Paul's eloquence at times, that is one of the more garbled passages in his writings. I have no idea if headcovering really was a widespread practice in all the young Christian communities. Paul often wrote to a specific community trying to address an issue that was...

Well, I'm not sure I agree with the statement. I think we are humans which means we are body and spirit together. The way the statement if phrased it's like we could be a bodiless soul, then we incarnate, and then we go back to being a bodiless soul. Personally I have no knowledge of what...

Welcome to RF karmatika. :)

Well, I'm not sure what the thanks are for, but you are very welcome Chris. Thank you too for your great insights and well-written, honest posts. I've learned a lot from what you have written here, and I fondly remember some of the fun threads we've had. This sounds suspiciously like a...

Good to see you Sally! Best wishes with your new blog. :)

Has anyone seen any news on how it went with the Hubble repair?

I've never heard it referred to at Relational Theology but it sounds very much like theology as I learned in the Episcopal Church.

That is my take on it too. A good point. Thomas is one who knows quite a bit about Christina mysticism. That is a good definition and puts me in the camp of mysticism too. I think that we usually associate mysticism with contemplatives who are very intentional about approaching the Divine...

He's brilliant...I'll have to look for that documentary. Along the same lines as your OP, for some reason it is cool to be a 'mystic,' but not to believe in the 'supernatural.' To me these both refer to the same thing: experiences that can't be tested and measured scientifically, yet are...

Good points Path, and I was just painting in broad brush strokes. It is a lot more varied than that. I tend to think Eastern Orthodox is very cool. EO would probably be my next choice after Episcopalian. I don't think Episcopalian has a strong image in most people's minds these days. Some...

In the US I think it is much 'cooler' to say you are a Buddhist or Taoist than to say you are part of one of the Abrahamic religions. New Age is losing its charm and is perceived as being shallow. Wiccan/Pagan/Druid I think are all still fairly cool. 'Christian' (alone) I think gets...

Frightening to think that water shortages might rival or surpass petro shortages in the near future. Colorado has water issues, makes me shake my head all the time over how we misuse this resource. I can't begin to imagine whole countries running out of water.

Well, I am religious...it is a large part of how I express and develop my spirituality. I just wish being religious did not have the negative connotation that it does these days. </whine> :D

No need to arrive because we were already there...which I thought we had already discovered? :) Anyhoo...I quite like Thomas Merton and he quite liked Buddhism. I've known a few Episcopal priests personally who include aspects of Buddhism into their walk with God, and I read recently in...

I'm not sure that the point of Christ's coming was to start a new religion exactly. His teachings were quite in line with the Hillel school of rabbinic teaching at the time, but His mission was reconciliation and redemption. God with us. Christians don't see Christ mainly as prophet and...

Well, I'm certainly not trying to argue with you. Like Marsh I was just pointing out that there are meaningful differences between the way we believe, but not that it means I am trying to gain a monopoly on it or anything. And, like you I see many similarities between what I believe and what...