Agape International Spiritual Centre is a community founded by Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith in 1986 which has developed into an interfaith international New Thought-Ancient Wisdom movement.
Spiritual Principles:
The following five principles form the core teachings of the Agape Movement and its founder, Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith. Reflecting the perennial wisdom of the ages, these principles are found [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Agape International Spiritual Center
Posted in Beliefs, tagged People, Places on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God in our image?
Posted in Imagery, tagged Images on June 27, 2008 | 11 Comments »
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
~Voltaire
Many people have seen a picture widely circulated on the internet and in email popularly called The Eye of God:
It’s a composite image which has been tinted to look like a human eye. This is what the Helix Nebula looks like to NASA:
We [...]
Dave Walker: The Cartoon Church
Posted in People on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dave Walker is cartoonist in residence for the UK Lambeth Conference of the Anglican faith.
His website The Cartoon Church takes a light-hearted look at modern life and religion.
In 2006 he published a book The Dave Walker Guide to the Church containing such wisdom as:
*what congregations think vicars do all week
*what vicars think they do all week
*stuff in [...]
If you can walk you can dance; if you can talk you can sing ( Zimbabwean proverb )
Posted in Beliefs on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Both the Shona and Ndebele peoples of Zimbabwe believe in God the Creator and that the spirits of their ancestors protect them, but the influence of Christian conversion has left a syncretic religious mix of cultures and customs. Beliefs include animism- the spiritual power of all things; prayer and worship to ancestors and to God; and [...]
Summer Solstice: 4000 year old monument to an unknown faith
Posted in Litany on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The summer solstice is a way of attuning ourselves back into the cycles of nature, connecting with the land and the turning of the seasonal tides.”
~modern Druid at Stonehenge for the solstice
Though Stonehenge has been explained by many theories from Celtic folklore and English history, it is not known what the religious beliefs were of [...]
Blood into milk: Shavuot
Posted in Beliefs on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week was the Jewish festival of Shavuot, Festival of the First Fruits and Giving of the Torah.
It is traditional to eat dairy food and to read from the book of Ruth:
Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a [...]
Al Jazeera English- code of ethics
Posted in Current events on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Arabic news agency Al Jazeera is working towards acceptance in the US media market with the appointment of new managing director Tony Burman, formerly of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; this is the professional code of ethics for their English channel:
1. Adhere to the journalistic values of honesty, courage, fairness, balance, independence, credibility and diversity, giving no priority to commercial [...]
Creatio ex nihilo- isn’t everything?
Posted in People on June 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Response to a critic of post-modernism as a school of thought on Don Heatley’s website Creatio Ex Nihilo
~how can postmodernism be merely ‘dumb’? It is an attempt to define and redefine realities, given a confusing name. That’s not new concept-either shifts in perceptions, or definitions, nor naming periods in history, even somewhat inaccurately.
What it means [...]
