How Prayer Answers the Question of the Meaning of Life

In a chapter titled “The Discipline of Meditation- Prayer” from James Earl Massey’s Spiritual Disciplines: A Believer’s Openings to the Grace of God, we learn that “the deepest meanings of selfhood are realized when a person is with God.  The self reaches its highest expression when one prays.  Realized order marks the path of an individual who […]

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Howard Thurman: What Do I Want, Really?

Preacher, pastor, theologian and mystic, Howard Thurman invites us to participate in the inward journey of self- fulfillment and becoming.  He invites us to ask ourselves, “What is the fundamental thing that I am after?…  What is my point? … What is it that I really want?… In the fulfillment of myself, this thing will follow.”  […]

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Belonging

I belong to you and you belong to me not because of the social construct of race, the social coloring of my skin, the size of my nose or lips, the shape of my eyes or the texture of my hair.  I belong to you and you belong to me not because of a shared […]

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The Sleeping Church in America

What can account for the spiritual state that American Christians are in?  It seems, at least to me, that we are and have been for hundreds of years now in a state of slumber.  Sure, there has been some tossing and turning, some wiping of the eyes, yawning and even stretching of the arms.  We […]

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A prayer for the deed that cries to be done

“Give us grace, O God, to dare to do the deed which we well know cries to be done.  Let us not hesitate because of ease or the words of men’s mouths or our own lives.  Mighty causes are calling us– the freeing of women, the training of children, the putting down of hate and […]

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