Finding Your Purpose, Anglicans And Gay Marriage, Black Mormons

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Following The Path, Finding Your Purpose "Happiness," Helen Keller wrote, "is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." In a society bent on individualism, the insight bends the mind a bit. But think a minute. To realize what great stream of life flows in us, to discover who and what we are and then to give ourselves over to the energy and drive of it for the sake of the world at large has got to be the greatest personal insight in life. I knew, for instance, at the age of 14, that I lived to write, was meant to write and that life would never be whole for me without it. I also knew, feared, intuited that I had not the remotest notion of how to make that happen. I was female to begin with and it was perfectly obvious to me, given the fact that my high school library carried books by only three women authors, that women did not write. More than that, I was going to a monastery in a male church that may have canonized women but certainly did not look to them as authors. Black Mormons Face A Political Choice Like No Other Church Of England Rallies Against Gay Marriage 'Storefront Church' Completes John Patrick Shanley's Faith Trilogy PHOTOS: The World's 10 Best Cathedrals Catholic Theologians Stand Up To The Vatican BLOG POSTS Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs: Call Them 'Compassion Panels,' Not 'Death Panels' I think that we need to re-label the idea of these "panels" so that we are actually talking about how we need to treat people with compassion no matter what decision has to be made concerning a loved one's end of life issues. Christian Piatt: A Theology of America's Zombie Apocalypse It's hard to say if the pop culture popularity has influenced similar copycat killers, or if the zombie craze simply has made us more sensitive to similar real-life stories. Either way, both the fictional tales and actual news items may speak to something going on in our collective imaginations. Rabbi Yonah Bookstein: Jewish Innovation's Obstacle Course Jewish organizations that are on the cutting edge are having a hard time making it to the next level. It's a worldwide phenomenon. Richard Stearns: Show More Religion on TV to Bridge the Cultural Divide If characters of real religious faith were more frequently seen on film and television, we would have a much better chance of bridging our current cultural divides. Aaron Taylor: The Apostle Paul Was Not a Misogynist Homophobe Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "To be great is to be misunderstood." If Emerson was right, then the Apostle Paul might be one of the greatest men to ever live. Few religious leaders have been as grossly misunderstood as Paul.

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