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Ponce De Leon and The Founding of Florida: “This Other World”
To prepare for Florida’s 500th anniversary in 2013, Florida Living History, Inc. (www.floridalivinghistory.org), will offer its annual heritage Event – “This Other World”: Ponce de León and the Founding of Florida – on Saturday, March 31st, from 10AM to4PM, at the Mission Nombre de Dios Museum (www.missionandshrine.org/), in St.Augustine, FL. The Event will commemorate the [...]
Is There A Puzzle to Be Solved Under Glastonbury Tor?
There is a place – a very special place – located in Glastonbury, a small town in Somerset, England. A place that comes up in many conversations, books and movies. This is not a surprise. After all, the myths and legends that have always surrounded this small community are numerous and well-known. For Christians, it [...]
New Esoteric Dialogue Web Comic Launch!
This week, Two Tone Comics released the first full-paged strip in its brand new online comic series, Esoteric Dialogue. Inspired by an eclectic blend of perspectives on matters of society, religion, history, philosophy and art, Esoteric Dialogue explores worldviews based outside of monopolistic networks and often finds itself within some conspiratorial absurdism. Currently, the series [...]
Second Annual Interfaith Earth Day Celebration This Saturday
COMMUNITY EARTH DAY CELEBRATION This Saturday, April 24th, Temple Bet Yam will be hosting the Second Annual Interfaith Earth Day Celebration. The celebration is aimed at increasing interreligious dialogue in the community and will also be highlighting the community garden project known as the Flagler College Hunger Initiative, whose goal is to raise awareness about [...]
Pres. to Speak in Egypt About U.S.-Muslim Relations
JUNE 2, 2009 – The president plans on travelling to Cairo, Egypt to make a speech to the Muslim world about U.S.-Muslim relations. For the record, I don’t think this is a terrible idea. In fact, I think it’s a healthy move for international and inter-religious dialogue as well as a savvy political strategy for [...]
Prayer, Meditation, and Contemplation: Insight for the Contemporary College Student
Mysticism is a wide spectrum, involving many different facets and outlets for the experiencing of the Ultimate. The most common and prevalent in Western culture are the practices of prayer, meditation, and contemplation. By examining Kenneth Leech`s ideas on prayer as a window to our true nature, Kierkegaard`s idea that God is the criterion in [...]
Evangelism and Holy War: Levinas’s ‘Face’
In his God and Philosophy, Emmanuel Levinas writes of one`s responsibility for his neighbor and viewing the face of that person. In reference to Levinas`s ideas on these matters, I will define the face as the summation of who a person is, and claim that evangelists and militant religious crusaders dissolve the face of the [...]
My Cup Runneth Over: The Church at the Well in Wake Forest, NC
April 22, 2009 Scott Bufis The high E-string catches under a loose thirteenth fret producing a shrilly tink as my hand grazes over the six strings. I stop the song for a moment, pull the string out from under the defected piece of brass, and continue as though the interruption never occurred. As I lift [...]
Is Your Church Struggling?
ORMOND BEACH – My church is struggling financially. It is a major denomination and the word is that most of the churches in that denomination are in the same boat. Further I’m told, other denominations are suffering too and it’s because of the ECONOMY!We just went through a significant reduction in staff and one casualty [...]
Opinion Blog: What Is Hope?
I’ve been reading Psalms 1-72 An Introduction and Commentaries by Rev. Derek Kidner. It is to me like a detailed treatise on the Psalms – both overview and verse by verse. This book is intended for the “student of the Bible who has no specialized training in biblical theology, history and language.” So now you [...]
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