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+ Care2MakeADifference offers "COPENHAGEN: 10 Million Strong, and Growing".
+ Care2MakeADifference offers "COPENHAGEN: The 7 Things Scientists Want You to Know About Climate Change".
+ The last 2 posts on Shuck and Jive are worth reading and the comments too -- including mine:
+ 5:52pm update + Snow and wind this morning here in Central NY. Accumulation of about 4 inches which mostly turned to slush as the temperature rose. Later it cleared and then it rained.
+ A fascinating conversation is taking place at http://naminghisgrace.blogspot.com/2009/12/jesus-coming-king.html
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Fascinating conversation. Thanks.
I am a fan of the Bible and the Barmen Declaration and I see nothing in my way of thinking which contradicts the great truths found there. Jesus indeed says "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one comes to the Father except through me." The key to understanding this great passage is to appreciate the meaning of I AM which is heard by all the sages of the ages including Moses at The Burning Bush.
We definitely do need to embrace that way. The Perennial Philosophy, embodied in Jesus and other sages of the ages is definitely the Way, the Truth and the Life. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. Not my ego but the real me, the true self. This is the great wisdom Jesus taught us: to find witin ourselves the Light, the Power, the Love. We are connected to the Way. It is fantastic. It is wonderful.
God is at work in all kinds of ways but ultimately there is only one way, the way of love. Jesus got it but he is not the only one. We must all work to show people that the way of idolatry -- such as nationalism and denominationalism and sexism and racism and militarism and plutocracy and so many other false paths -- is false.
Jesus did not come into the world to offer us Jesus-olatry and Bible-olatry. Instead he came to offer us the Way, the Truth, the Life.
Check out Peter Russel's THE CHURCH OF I AM and Gary L. Beckwith's THE TEN TEACHINGS OF ALL RELIGIONS.
I invite you to affirm the Charter for Compassion as I have and over 27,000 others. It is an effort led by Karen Armstrong to overcome the hostility between the religions of the planet which is so dangerous. We simply must stop playing the dangerous game of My Religion Is Better Than Your Religion.
Love + John A Wilde + Whitesboro NY + The John A Wilde Blog + We are intimately, intricately and infinitely connected by a matrix of unconditional, unlimited and uniting love which is miraculous, mysterious and marvelous.
+ It's Advent. Repent! The Kin(g)dom of God is at hand.
You can see some great Advent sharing on an important question at the Presbyterian Welcome blog. Here's the question: When do you know that God's kin(g)dom is near?
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