“Students! Do not practice buddha-dharma for your own sake. Do not practice buddha-dharma for name and gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain blissful reward. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain miraculous effects. Practice buddha-dharma solely for the sake of buddha-dharma. This is the way.” -Dogen I often wonder what would Christianity look like if [...]
I recently read Divinity and Diversity by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki for the Transforming Theology Blogger Consortium, and I’ve been sitting on this for a couple weeks now. I had every intention of writing something last week, but after mulling things over in my mind, I could never find a satisfactory way of approaching the book. [...]
Had a debate with my parents tonight about the question of Sex Education in schools, wanted to throw it up here and see what comes of it. I know I don’t have a ton of readers to make this anywhere near exciting, but we’ll try it out anyways. So here’s the question: Should public school [...]
What does it say about me that if my wife and I were to start a house church we’re pretty sure after week one it would just be the two of us? Or does it say something about my friends more so than myself? Is it possible to have a house church with a group [...]
So I’m reading “The Divine Conspiracy” by Dallas Willard right now. All I can say is wow, this guy is deep. I’m seriously only on page 50 and he’s already made some pretty profound (well backed) statements. I’ll post up my complete thoughts on the book when I’m done (at the rate I’m reading it [...]