God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist RightTriad Institute, Inc., 2007 - 231 pàgines In this multiple award-winning and bestselling diagnosis of the contemporary American spirit, David James Duncan suggests that the de facto political party embodied by the so-called Christian Right has turned worship into a self-righteous betrayal of the words and example of the very Jesus it claims to praise. In a bracing and often hilarious response to this trend, God Laughs & Plays offers churchless sermons, stories, memoir, conversations, and cosmological reflections that scorn riches and embrace the poor; bless peacemakers, not war-makers; celebrate creation, diversity, empathy, playfulness and beauty; and insist that Divine Mystery is indeed mysterious and compassion is literally compassionate. The spiritual kingdom described by Jesus, this unusual book reminds us, is located not in the Sky or beyond a disastrous future, but within us, to be sought and embodied in the here and now. |
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Pàgina xiv
... never convinced . So on the day I was granted the option of what our preachers called " leaving the faith , " I did leave — and increased my faith by so doing . Following intuition and love with all the sincerity and at- tentiveness I ...
... never convinced . So on the day I was granted the option of what our preachers called " leaving the faith , " I did leave — and increased my faith by so doing . Following intuition and love with all the sincerity and at- tentiveness I ...
Pàgina 11
... never felt the truth of what that man did . I have never understood why the piano's location in " God's House " forbade my choice of song , and have never been able to be- lieve in that enraged man's God . I don't believe I ever will ...
... never felt the truth of what that man did . I have never understood why the piano's location in " God's House " forbade my choice of song , and have never been able to be- lieve in that enraged man's God . I don't believe I ever will ...
Pàgina 12
... never learned the name of that little boy , though he is , clearly , linguistically related to Yogi Berra . But when I first heard of him and his cross - eyed bear , then thought of Jesus and His terribly unfunny cross , then tried to ...
... never learned the name of that little boy , though he is , clearly , linguistically related to Yogi Berra . But when I first heard of him and his cross - eyed bear , then thought of Jesus and His terribly unfunny cross , then tried to ...
Pàgina 18
... never once seen a G , O , and D inscribed in His earth or hovering in His water or fluttering in His air . Until I do , I'll continue to believe that this word , " God , " is a human creation , and that , because it is human , the word ...
... never once seen a G , O , and D inscribed in His earth or hovering in His water or fluttering in His air . Until I do , I'll continue to believe that this word , " God , " is a human creation , and that , because it is human , the word ...
Pàgina 19
... never have entered the body . And if the soul could have known God without the world , the world would never have been created . The world was made for the soul's sake , so that the soul's eye might be practiced and strengthened to bear ...
... never have entered the body . And if the soul could have known God without the world , the world would never have been created . The world was made for the soul's sake , so that the soul's eye might be practiced and strengthened to bear ...
Continguts
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What Fundamentalists Need for Their Salvation | 33 |
When Compassion Becomes Dissent | 57 |
Ashes Dirt | 77 |
Christian Matters I | 89 |
DeboreHA | 139 |
Romeo Shows Jamey the Door | 149 |
Are Salmon Holy? | 163 |
Christian Matters II | 171 |
The Only Son | 185 |
Nonfiction vs Fiction vs Cosmic Illusion | 189 |
Assailed | 199 |
Authors Acknowledgments | 229 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 12 - Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Pàgina 26 - Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Pàgina 62 - I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means — except by getting off his back.
Pàgina 3 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Pàgina xx - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
Pàgina 214 - The yogi, absorbed in contemplation, contributes in his degree to creation : he breathes a divine perfume, he hears wonderful things. Divine forms traverse him without tearing him, and, united to the nature which is proper to him, he goes, he acts as animating original matter.
Pàgina 214 - Free in this world as the birds in the air, disengaged from every kind of chains, those who have practiced the yoga gather in Brahma the certain fruit of their works.
Pàgina xiii - The question before the human race is, whether the God of Nature shall govern the •world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles...
Pàgina 31 - The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Pàgina 42 - The primary impulse of each is to maintain and aggrandise himself. The secondary impulse is to go out of the self, to correct its provincialism and heal its loneliness. In love, in virtue, in the pursuit of knowledge, and in the reception of the arts, we are doing this. Obviously this process can be described either as an enlargement or as a temporary annihilation of the self. But that is an old paradox; 'he that loseth his life shall save it...