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The God Beyond Organized Religion
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Author : Laurene Beth Bowers
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-01-05
The God Beyond Organized Religion written by Laurene Beth Bowers and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Religion categories.
Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god. She realizes she doesn't want to be consoled by a 'transactional' god who exchanges 'right' belief and 'good' behavior for services upon request. She explores the concept of a 'transformative' god, one not aligned with any particular religion, who equips people to adapt to challenges and to spiritually grow from crises and traumas. Out of our experiences, something positive can emerge which helps us to be more empathic toward the suffering of others. Her story demonstrates how grief can be an opportunity to ponder the great mysteries of life and make meaning of our existence. She describes this process as a journey up the side of a mountain to explore how a concept of god both reflects and impacts the way a society approaches its contemporary social problems, such as global warming, poverty, and inequality. In doing so, she encounters a god beyond organized religion.
The God Beyond Organized Religion
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Author : Laurene Beth Bowers
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-01-05
The God Beyond Organized Religion written by Laurene Beth Bowers and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Religion categories.
Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god. She realizes she doesn't want to be consoled by a 'transactional' god who exchanges 'right' belief and 'good' behavior for services upon request. She explores the concept of a 'transformative' god, one not aligned with any particular religion, who equips people to adapt to challenges and to spiritually grow from crises and traumas. Out of our experiences, something positive can emerge which helps us to be more empathic toward the suffering of others. Her story demonstrates how grief can be an opportunity to ponder the great mysteries of life and make meaning of our existence. She describes this process as a journey up the side of a mountain to explore how a concept of god both reflects and impacts the way a society approaches its contemporary social problems, such as global warming, poverty, and inequality. In doing so, she encounters a god beyond organized religion.
Wide Open Spaces
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Author : Jim Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date : 2007-12-02
Wide Open Spaces written by Jim Palmer and has been published by Thomas Nelson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-02 with Religion categories.
Jim Palmer's critically acclaimed Divine Nobodies was only half the story - the deconstruction and shedding of a religious mentality that hindered his knowing God. In his next book, Jim takes the reader along into the wide open spaces of exploring and experiencing God beyond religion. Jim writes, "It is no secret that God can be lost beneath the waving banner of religion. Divine Nobodies is my story of how this happened to me. Sometimes you have to disentangle God from religion, even Christ from Christianity, to find the truth. With the help of some unsuspecting nobodies, I uncovered a new starting line with God. As I've put one foot in front of another, I've experienced God in ways that are deeply transforming." Each chapter revolves around a central question related to knowing God on fresh terms: Is God a belief system? Is the Bible a landing strip or launching pad? Can what we're feeling inside be God? Are we too religiously minded to be any earthly good? Brian McLaren wrote, "I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Don Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice." The Library Reviews said of him, "Jim Palmer's casual, yet compelling writing style cuts through the religious rhetoric and gets to the real issues...readers will love this author! His sense of humor is alternately mixed with shocking sentences and poignant moments. Laced throughout is a refreshing honesty that ties his ideas together with a ribbon of reality...each turn of the page strips away a little more of the contrived mystery of Christianity until the simplicity and sincerity of it stands in realistic splendor." More and more people seek a deeper spirituality beyond status-quo religion. Others are left empty and weary from a shallow and narrow pop-Christianity. Palmer says that God's kingdom of love, peace, and freedom can be a present reality in any person's life. He proclaims that God is indeed in the process of birthing something deep and wide among unlikely people in unconventional ways, which is changing the world...one "nobody" at a time.
On The Outside Looking Up
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Author : Elizabeth Massie
language : en
Publisher: Valley House Books
Release Date : 2016-06-16
On The Outside Looking Up written by Elizabeth Massie and has been published by Valley House Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with categories.
An increasing number of people are leaving their established religions behind. Some embrace atheism or agnosticism. Others, a more "New Age" spiritual pathway. Then there are those who have discovered their own personal God-centered religions that speak deeply yet don't necessarily match up to what they were taught within their houses of worship. These are the un-churched believers. They are out there. We are out here. And our love for God and our understandings of the Divine are as meaningful and beautiful as that of the churched. On the Outside Looking Up is part spiritual memoir, part musings on issues that religions tend to tackle, and part extended hand to un-churched believers to assure them they are not the only ones. Elizabeth Massie shares how the basic truth of God - that He Loves and it is His Will that we also love - is the Light that illuminates every topic and struggle we face and is available to all. On the Outside Looking Up invites un-churched, churched, and non-believers alike to give the word "religion" a break and encourages us to take on the profound task of finding our commonalities and loving one another. Elizabeth Massie is no minister, theology scholar, or spiritual leader. She's an ordinary, wondering-wandering un-churched believer who felt a Tap on her shoulder and decided not to ignore it. She has authored a wide variety of works including the Stoker-winning Sineater, the Scribe Award-winning The Tudors: Thy Will Be Done, the mainstream novel Homegrown, the meditative collection Night Benedictions, and more.
Divine Nobodies
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Author : Jim Palmer
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2006-10-15
Divine Nobodies written by Jim Palmer and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-15 with Self-Help categories.
What does a Hip-Hop artist, Waffle House waitress, tire salesman, and disabled girl have to do with discovering spiritual truth? What if embracing authentic Christianity is a journey of unlearning? Welcome to Jim Palmer's world! Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale of shedding religion and plunging into uncharted depths of knowing God. Jim Palmer, emergent pastor, shares his compelling off-road spiritual journey and the unsuspecting people who became his guides. "Perhaps God's reason for wanting me," writes Palmer, "is much better than my reason for wanting him. Maybe God's idea of my salvation trumps the version I am too willing to settle for. Seeing I needed a little help to get this, God sent a variety pack of characters to awaken me." For all those hoping there's more to God and Christianity than what they've heard or experienced, each chapter of Divine Nobodies gives the reader permission and freedom to discover it for themselves. Sometimes comical, other times tragic, at times shocking, always honest; Jim Palmer's story offers an inspiring and profound glimpse into life with God beyond institutional church and conventional religion. "I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Donald Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice . . . Divine Nobodies is a delight to read, and it was good for my soul to read it." -BRIAN MCLAREN Author of The Secret Message of Jesus "You hold in your hands an amazing story of a broken man finding freedom in all the right places-in God's work in the lives of some extraordinarily ordinary people around him. You will thrill to this delightful blend of gut-wrenching honesty and laugh-out-loud hilarity, and in the end you'll find God much closer, the body of Christ far bigger and your own journey far clearer than you ever dreamed." -WAYNE JACOBSEN Author of Authentic Relationships
Finding God Beyond Religion
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Author : Tom Stella
language : en
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
Release Date : 2013
Finding God Beyond Religion written by Tom Stella and has been published by SkyLight Paths Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Religion categories.
Do you describe yourself as spiritual but not religious? Whether young or old, church connected or not, are you spiritually restless for an authentic faith life but do not find conventional religious teachings pertinent to you? This accessible guide to a meaningful spiritual life is a salve for your soul. It reinterprets traditional religious teachings central to the Christian faith - God, Jesus, faith, prayer, morality and more - in ways that connect with people who have outgrown the beliefs and devotional practices that once made sense to them.
The God Con
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Author : Lee Moller
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2017-06-28
The God Con written by Lee Moller and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-28 with Religion categories.
The crucifix is in! You can fool most of the people most of the time. In The God Con, Lee Moller, a life-long atheist and skeptic, looks at organized religion through the lens of the con. Organized religion has been selling an invisible product, that it never has to deliver, for thousands of years. It has given us bigotry, rampant pedophilia, terrorism, and bloodshed beyond imagining. And its acolytes have, in turn, given organized religion power over their bank accounts, their reproduction, and their very “souls”.
Living Beyond Belief The God Of No Religion
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Author : N.B. Singh
language : en
Publisher: N.B. Singh
Release Date :
Living Beyond Belief The God Of No Religion written by N.B. Singh and has been published by N.B. Singh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"Living Beyond Belief: The God of No Religion" explores spirituality beyond traditional religious confines, advocating for a personal connection with the divine that transcends dogma. Through introspective reflections and philosophical insights, the book invites readers to embrace a liberated and inclusive approach to spirituality, emphasizing the universal essence of human connection and the limitless potential for personal growth outside the boundaries of organized religion.
Of Gods And Minds
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Author : James Heisig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-30
Of Gods And Minds written by James Heisig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-30 with categories.
The five lectures that make up this book were delivered at Boston College in 2019 as the Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity. In them the author begins from the assumption that if the Christian God is to have global significance, it will not merely be a matter of Christianity accepting cultural and religious diversity and retreating from its mission of converting the entire world to its own way of thinking about God. The conversion to tolerance and hospitality towards other modes of belief and practice marks a watershed for Christianity, but only as a transition to straighten out its past in the face of a graver, commoner concern: the care of an earth abused by human civilization and devalued by organized religion. The author approaches this question from a broader consideration of the origins and functions of gods in minds and from there suggests grounding metaphors of the divine and its relationship to the natural world in a nothingness beyond being and becoming.
Leaving God For God
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Author : Phil Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-04-23
Leaving God For God written by Phil Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with Religion categories.
Feeling betrayed by your religion? After 24 years in the Evangelical movement, Phil Davis decided to leave his "first faith." It was not a decision he took lightly. Feeling sick of the institutional church, tired of the manipulative "voice of God" drummed into his head, and trusting that the real God was somewhere beyond the theology he was taught, the author deconstructed and then reconstructed his view of the Divine Presence. In Leaving God for God, Davis takes us on his journey to de-program himself and open himself to the God beyond any one religion. Along the way, he asked himself some hard questions: - How much of our faith is based upon a set of church "doctrines" that we are told to believe? - Is God just a theological construct? - Wouldn't a truly divine Superior Being be above and beyond our religious beliefs? - Is it possible that religion can be a major obstacle to discovering the truth about the Divine? In the end, Davis wound taking a wrecking ball to his old theological house of cards. Is that a dangerous proposition? Perhaps so. But the journey was worth the drama, the surprises were worth the risk, and the rewards were quite beyond expectations. Leaving God for God is one seeker's story of leaving the parochial "god" of one faith for the God over all faiths. Reading it will make you ask some hard questions, too. Buy Leaving God for God today, and join Phil Davis on a journey out of organized religion into the truth of a God bigger than any human faith.