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Everything is Sacred
Just a quick thought for the day. Part of our human nature is tiredness. Personally, I don’t get bored much, but I hear other people complaining of boredom all the time. If you are a spiritual person you will know that everything is sacred. Every word we write is sacred. Every sip of each drink…
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Being Called to Celibacy
The first thing to point out is that it is indeed an honour to do the will of the divine, even if that means making sacrifices. Amen. When Jesus suffered in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights, he was acting out a sacred part of history, and celibacy is a small calling compared…
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Living in Psychiatric Hospital
This hospital is effectively my home. I eat here, sleep here, wash here, brush my teeth here – these are the kinds of things that define our home, are they not? Oh, and of course there is the yang of the situation, which is that I have been kicked out of my rented accommodation. Things…
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Building a Church for Everyone
My plan, after I am discharged from psychiatric hospital, is to keep taking my medication and attempt, if the divine wills it to be so, to begin bringing together people of different faiths in order to initiate discussions that may eventually lead to the creation of a new church. Regular readers of this blog will…
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The Myth of the Fall
A major idea in the Christian tradition is that human beings live in a ‘fallen’ state. The idea is that, through original sin (which took place in the Garden of Eden), humanity fell from its original state of union with God, experienced by Adam and Eve before they made the decision to eat the ‘forbidden…
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Karma
Many Indian religious traditions, including Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, have the idea of karma as one of their core beliefs. Although there are nuances and variations in the way karma is perceived between these different religions, the key ideas about karma are common to all of them. Karma is the idea that there are consequences…
About STEVEN
Steven Colborne is an author, musician and counsellor from the United Kingdom. On this blog he writes about philosophy, religion and spirituality and shares a variety of personal articles.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
