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The Mystic in You
Discovering a God-filled World
by Bruce G. Epperly
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What is a mystic? Bruce Epperly defines mystics as people who see holiness in everyday life. We can be mystics without leaving our families, disengaging from daily responsibilities, becoming a priest, or joining a monastic order. Epperly shows how we can experience the living God in the midst of daily life and never again take everyday events for granted.
Bruce Epperly introduces readers to 12 individuals or groups of mystics through the ages: St. Francis of Assisi, the desert mothers and fathers, Benedict of Nursia, the Celtic mystics, Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Brother Lawrence, the Baal Shem Tov, Howard Thurman, Etty Hillesum, Rumi, and Julian of Norwich.
Each chapter describes each mystic’s life, spiritual experiences and worldview, and provides spiritual exercises to help us experience the mystic firsthand. Through his conversational, down-to-earth approach, Epperly inspires us to realize that we can encounter God wherever we are, whatever we are doing.
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Talking Back to the Bible by Edward G. Simmons
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How Do We Create a Meaningful Relationship with God
Consistent with Science, History, and Culture?
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Award-Winning Book Presents Author’s Personal Experience and the Latest Scholarly Research in an Inspirational Approach to Understanding the Ministry of Jesus and the Books of the Old Testament
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Millennials seeking a new approach to spirituality, those who identify with the “emerging church” identified by Marcus Borg and others, anyone interested in Christ’s Jewishness and the elimination of anti-Jewish bias from Bible study, and women, LGBTs, and others who seek a Biblical approach that overcomes insistence on obedience to questionable Old Testament commands will be intrigued by the new book by Edward G. Simmons.
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ProgressiveChristianity.org : Talking Back to the Bible: A Historian’s Approach to Bible Study“I chose not to say anything to him the entire time. I wanted him to feel compassion. I chose to show him empathy. I felt that the best way to honor his victims was for a Jew to prove him wrong. Besides, if he finds out I’m Jewish, does it really matter? The better question is, what does it mean to you?"
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"I wanted him to feel compassion. I chose to show him empathy. I felt that the best way to honor his victims was for a Jew to prove him wrong."Sermon Video with Rev Dr. Roger L. Ray, Community Christian Church
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Generations before the birth of Jesus, Virgil wrote in the Aeneid the solemn advice that we should not speak of what cannot be or what is not known. We would all be a lot better off if religions of all stripes had followed that advice.
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The world’s great faiths offer moral insight and direction (though even that should be critically received) but this wisdom is encrusted with magical thinking and unsubstantiated truth claims that have little or no bearing on the real world. Progressives seek to reveal the wisdom of faith without passing along the neurotic or false claims of our traditional faith.
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These progressive sermons are available as podcasts at iTunes.
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Dr. Roger L. Ray
pastor, The Emerging Church
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ProgressiveChristianity.org : Haud Ignota Loquor (Speak not of what is not known)
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ProgressiveChristianity.org : Haud Ignota Loquor (Speak not of what is not known)
