Right Time:
"I trust God for the answer to my prayer." (DW, 7.8.09)
"But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience." (Rom. 8.25)
Mei Meditatio:
By virtue of Faith coupled with Understanding, I trust God in Christ. I trust that in my relative perspective I'm not always able to have all the answers and know exactly what to do. However, as I center myself in Christ and open my mind, body, and spirit to God, answers are revealed to me and I'm aware of what to do when I need to do it.
I am guided by the Spirit of God in Christ into right action through thought, word, and deed. I am guided in action to promote and sustain well-being for myself, my relationships, and society through love, charity, and justice.
In the name and through the power of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Amen.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Union's Course, "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis" Featured on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal
On July 3, 2009 Union Theological Seminay's course entitled "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis" was featured on the PBS show Bill Moyers' Journal.
Union President Serene Jones, Professor Gary Dorrien, and Professor Cornell West of Princeton University discuss the popular Union Forum course, "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis." The program took a close look at our nation's religious traditions and values, and what they say about the challenges of balancing capitalism and democracy in America.
President Jones and Professors Dorrien and West spoke with host, Bill Moyers, about how "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis," which has garnered incredible popularity online, uniquely gained Christian responses to the U.S. economic crisis. Moyers recognized the people behind the featured Union Forum course to be "leading public thinkers" in this debate.
Watch the show at PBS.
Learn more about the course "Christianity and the US Crisis."
Read more about Pres. Jones, Profs. Dorrien and West.
Union President Serene Jones, Professor Gary Dorrien, and Professor Cornell West of Princeton University discuss the popular Union Forum course, "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis." The program took a close look at our nation's religious traditions and values, and what they say about the challenges of balancing capitalism and democracy in America.
President Jones and Professors Dorrien and West spoke with host, Bill Moyers, about how "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis," which has garnered incredible popularity online, uniquely gained Christian responses to the U.S. economic crisis. Moyers recognized the people behind the featured Union Forum course to be "leading public thinkers" in this debate.
Watch the show at PBS.
Learn more about the course "Christianity and the US Crisis."
Read more about Pres. Jones, Profs. Dorrien and West.
National Economic Survey Explores Economy's Impact on Christian Nonprofits
The Christian Leadership Alliance (CLA) recently released the helpful results of a national "Economic Outlook Survey" of Christian nonprofit organizations. The survey was conducted in April 2009 by J. David Schmidt and Associates.
"The national survey that CLA released today provides insight into the impact that the current economy is having on nonprofit organizations, particularly faith-based nonprofits," said Frank Lofaro, CLA president and CEO. "For many Christian nonprofit organizations the economy has had a major impact. In fact, compared to one year ago, some 73 percent of nonprofits with investments said their portfolios and endowments are down, and some 51 percent said that reserves have diminished."
Read the whole article at RNS.
"The national survey that CLA released today provides insight into the impact that the current economy is having on nonprofit organizations, particularly faith-based nonprofits," said Frank Lofaro, CLA president and CEO. "For many Christian nonprofit organizations the economy has had a major impact. In fact, compared to one year ago, some 73 percent of nonprofits with investments said their portfolios and endowments are down, and some 51 percent said that reserves have diminished."
Read the whole article at RNS.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Daily Word (7.7.09)
Love:
"We are one in the love of God." (DW, 7.7.09)
"O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever." (1 Chron. 16.34)
Mei Meditatio:
God's Love is all-encompassing and everlasting. As offspring of this Love, all individual life-expressions are intimately connected in a great web of interrelation through the dynamic Presence of Love.
God is Love. Thus, whenever we give, receive, and thus experience Love in its ego-dispelling, self-sacrificial, life-affirming, unity-upholding form, we experience God. Knowing Christ is knowing the Love of God in human being. Opening up to Christ and letting Christ fill my being, I overflow with the Love of God.
In the name and through the power of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Amen.
"We are one in the love of God." (DW, 7.7.09)
"O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever." (1 Chron. 16.34)
Mei Meditatio:
God's Love is all-encompassing and everlasting. As offspring of this Love, all individual life-expressions are intimately connected in a great web of interrelation through the dynamic Presence of Love.
God is Love. Thus, whenever we give, receive, and thus experience Love in its ego-dispelling, self-sacrificial, life-affirming, unity-upholding form, we experience God. Knowing Christ is knowing the Love of God in human being. Opening up to Christ and letting Christ fill my being, I overflow with the Love of God.
In the name and through the power of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Amen.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren Addresses U.S. Muslims
Counter to some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, Rick Warren, pastor of the enormous Saddleback Community Church in Orange County and one of the most prominent religious leaders in the country, told several thousand American Muslims of the Islamic Society of North America on Saturday that "the two largest faiths on the planet" must cooperatively work together to dispel stereotypes and address global problems. Warren said Muslims and Christians ought to be partners in helping to end what he calls "the five global giants" -- war, poverty, corruption, disease, and illiteracy.
Though some of his more evangelical-fundamentalist positions make me a little uneasy, I thoroughly appreciate and respect Pastor Warren's outspoken attitude and practical action toward mainline Muslim communities since 911. It marks a sense of hope for interfaith dialogue and social action toward peace and reconciliation among our more conservative and evangelical-minded brothers and sisters.
Sarah Karush of the AP writes this article at Faith in Public Life outlining Warrens recent extent of solidarity and support to American Muslims.
Though some of his more evangelical-fundamentalist positions make me a little uneasy, I thoroughly appreciate and respect Pastor Warren's outspoken attitude and practical action toward mainline Muslim communities since 911. It marks a sense of hope for interfaith dialogue and social action toward peace and reconciliation among our more conservative and evangelical-minded brothers and sisters.
Sarah Karush of the AP writes this article at Faith in Public Life outlining Warrens recent extent of solidarity and support to American Muslims.
Unity.FM (July 6-10, 2009)
Of particular interest on Unity.FM this week is Matthew Fox will be the special guest on World Spirituality with John Paul Roach. Matthew Fox is one of America's leading spiritual thinkers, especially in what he terms "Creation Spirituality." This week the focus will be on his new book The Hidden Spirituality of Men and its relevance for us all.
Check out the programming for Unity.FM this week.
Listen to the programs on Unity.FM.
Check out the programming for Unity.FM this week.
Listen to the programs on Unity.FM.
Daily Word (7.6.09)
All Is Well:
"Wherever I am, God is, and all is well." (DW, 7.6.09)
"My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast!" (Ps. 108.1)
Mei Meditatio:
God is both beyond creation and yet everywhere within it. God is transcendent as well as immanent. As the omnipresent immanence of Divinity, God is present in me through Christ. Knowing the reality of Christ in me is my hope of glory and leads me to the conclusion that all is indeed well.
Allowing myself to continually come back to awareness of God in Christ through prayer and meditation I build a steadfast practice of living out the Truth of the Love of Christ in my daily life.
In the name and through the power of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Amen.
"Wherever I am, God is, and all is well." (DW, 7.6.09)
"My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast!" (Ps. 108.1)
Mei Meditatio:
God is both beyond creation and yet everywhere within it. God is transcendent as well as immanent. As the omnipresent immanence of Divinity, God is present in me through Christ. Knowing the reality of Christ in me is my hope of glory and leads me to the conclusion that all is indeed well.
Allowing myself to continually come back to awareness of God in Christ through prayer and meditation I build a steadfast practice of living out the Truth of the Love of Christ in my daily life.
In the name and through the power of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Amen.
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