Eternal Echoes

Stories for the soul

Watching Sea Biscuit on DVD, chilling out after a hard day, the story of hope just washed over me, hope and perseverance and the message that nobody is worthless, all are worth a second chance. Good stories like that do the soul good, another soul film is The Shawshank Redemption also The Cider House Rules... we need stories in our lives, to help us to grow. Looking forward to another chill out night!

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Why do we so often not allow our faith to touch our lives, why do we prefer to keep God at arms length and hide behind our liturgies and rituals, he wants to shine through them and we want to keep him distant why?

Why do we shy away from mystery and want everything sewn up and explainable?

What are we afraid of?

Brian Mclaren

McLaren said “Generosity is orthodoxy…you can’t separate a practice of love from the truth about God.”

Try reading some of Brian's stuff

A New Kind of Christian

More adventures of a New Kind of Christian

The last word and the word after that

A Generous Orthodoxy

Take time to digest and think things through, has our view on God been too narrow, too exclusive, too mean???

What a great word

I've been talking to lots of people recently about spirituality and stuff, and like many of them I'd rather be called spiritual than religious, that was until I found out that to be religious means to be someone who reconnects. Being a part of something huge, something more and outside of me , the creative force behind the universe...connected to God, then hey I'm all for being religious...but I struggle with institutions which are often hard and rigid places, surely if religion is about reconnecting then it should be fluid and constantly moving...spiritual really..so perhaps we can't speak of the twop things like they were poles apart...anyway it's a journey and I'm on it sometimes connected, sometimes not connected but trying to be