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explorefaith.org Newsletter
September 28, 2005

In this issue
  • Lifelines: Exploring Life Issues
  • Reflections for Your Journey
  • Filming The Da Vinci Code in the Cathedrals of Europe
  • What Rumi Means to Me

  • Reflections for Your Journey
    Reflections for Your Journey





    A Place for God

    Every major religion has some form of spiritual practice of attention or mindfulness. Whether it is meditation or simple awareness, spiritual depth occurs when there is focus and singularity.

    The number of possessions that we have, the amount of material goods that fill our lives, the clutter that seems to gather all around our living areas, crowd out attention and focus.

    Our minds, thoughts, energies are dispersed in myriad directions, and in the cacophony of competing claims on us, we cannot seem to find our center, our sense of clarity, our touch with the sacred, our experience of God.

    One way that I have helped people begin to reclaim that holy core that exists within us is to lead them through the process of creating a simple space within their own home where what is divine may be drawn out.

    --from "Creating a Sacred Space"
    by Renee Miller


    Filming The Da Vinci Code in the Cathedrals of Europe
    In the News and ON OUR MINDS





    Although Dan Brown?s novel has had a remarkable run at cash registers around the world for more than two years, it is still being stymied by clergy and theologians resentful and worried about the consequences of its claims. ...

    Westminster Abbey, in fact, closed its doors to the movie, refusing permission to film inside its walls.

    --Jon M. Sweeney
    from "In the News and On Our Minds- 9/27/05"


    What Rumi Means to Me
    Rumi

    Why a Southern Baptist-turned-Buddhist Came to Revere a 13th?century Muslim Mystic
    I first learned of the Sufi saint Mevlana Jalal?uddin Rumi several years before he became one of the most popular poets in America, though I don?t quite remember when. I?m also not quite sure why others have come to appreciate Rumi; for me his appeal is as much based on the example of his life as on the written legacy he left the world.

    --Mark W. Muesse
    from "Saints, Prophets and Spiritual Guides"


    Lifelines: Exploring Life Issues

    Making Decisions

    Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others

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