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Missed the news? Follow these leads and hopefully you’ll be back on track. This is an array of news that caught my eye.
Debating the epidemic of painkiller abuse.
Skip work and make love for your country.
Rethinking the age of sexual consent.
Hounding the Bloggers
The Limits Of Non-Violence In Burma
What Makes a Monk Mad
Radiohead Album Price Tag: ‘It’s Up to You’
Face of the Day
Losing A Generation?
The number of young people who do not consider themselves Christians is growing, as is the hostility toward Christianity expressed by the next generation of non-Christians, claims a new book from David Kinnaman of Barna.org.
I think we all have within us particularly strong religious sentiments these days. The voice in America is a resoundingly religious one. I know we can’t do much about our founding fathers but, bless their soul, they impacted our nations life-course and therefore ours too.
You either are or you aren’t. I’m not even necessarily talking religious or not but more specifically Christian or not. Even our democratic presidential candidates are fighting over their carefully planned nuances of religious practice.
And yes, I FEEL disdain.
I am Catholic. It feels odd saying it though. I was Catholic, then not. Next I was atheist, then agnostic, then spiritual, Taoist, and now back to Catholic. Yet, it still feels as confusing as ever. The main reason why I rejected Catholicism was because of the seemingly strong rejection of homosexuals, at least on the surface.
Did you know that I even find myself really agreeing with The Secret? Have you seen the movie or read the book?
This many times is the innate struggle of our generation. To broaden, I really feel like this rejection, reception, and reconciliation cycle applies to anyone who is in the process of becoming something. As a cultural root, unless you have arrived, we are stuck rejecting, embracing, or something-ing our religious feelings.
Can you see the tentacles stemming from everything, especially in our decided search or non-search for spirituality? I think it’s time to stop sprawling. Reaching out for the answers might not be what actually makes the most sense. Look inward, aren’t ALL of these feelings coming from the same place? Truth isn’t going to feel awkward or uncomfortable but should feel as simple and easy as possible. The answers are what won’t come easy. So we need to decouple ourselves from whatever camp we find ourselves in, religious or not. You will find there might be whole chunks of information to grab instead of picking up years of broken, scattered, over-discussed and analyzed information.
I share in our struggle to find restraint, especially in a world pressuring us to sprawl for answers.
