Posts in Spiritual
How We Gather, The Report

America - the world - is changing. Millennials are less religiously affiliated than ever before. Churches are just one of many institutional casualties of the internet age in which young people are both more globally connected and more locally isolated than ever before. Against this bleak backdrop, a hopeful landscape is emerging. Millennials are flocking to a host of new organizations that deepen community in ways that are powerful, surprising, and perhaps even religious.

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The Power of Ritual, Casper ter Kuile

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more than ever for our spiritual and emotional well-being in the age of COVID-19.

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Idolatry

“Idolatry”, Frederick Buechner writes, “is the practice of ascribing absolute value to things of relative worth. Under certain circumstances, money, patriotism, sexual freedom, moral principles, family loyalty, physical beauty, social or intellectual preeminence, and so on are fine things to have around; but to make them the standard by which all other values are measured, to make them your masters, to look to them to justify your life and save your soul is sheerest folly. They just aren't up to it.”

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Spiritual Practice: Practicing Compassion

Compassion is the active regarding of life through the eyes of love, seeing value in all people and situations. This committed work of mind and heart restores one’s own equilibrium and sense of belovedness,
allowing for ourselves, and all others, to be known as valued members of humanity. We see through the eyes of love the world brought to life, and in it, we welcome a new richness into our own earthy adventure.

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