James Woodward
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James Francis Woodward is an American philosopher who works mainly in philosophy of science with particular emphasis on causation and scientific explanation. In addition, Woodward has published in moral and political philosophy as well as philosophy of psychology. Woodward is Professor Emeritus in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and was previously J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities at Caltech. .. more
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Sacramentality breaks through our surface obsessions in the world and plunges us into the depth of the Sacred l. It is a spontaneous reminder of God’s creative upwelling and expansive love, calling us to love beyond boundaries.
God brought things into being in order that God’s goodness might be communicated and be represented by them. God’s goodness could not be represented by one creature alone, God produced many & diverse creatures. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided.
Michael Hischer
WV 466, 2017
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WV 466, 2017
Painted Aluminium
New Art Centre
Most of us pedal pretty hard to avoid going in the direction of Jesus’ Beatitudes. We read books that promise to enrich our spirits. We find all kinds of ways to sedate our mournfulness.
—Barbara Brown Taylor
—Barbara Brown Taylor
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Wonderful immersion into story and colour and lost worlds
Wonderful immersion into story and colour and lost worlds
The state of enchantment is one of certainty. When enchanted, we neither believe nor doubt nor deny: we know, even if, as in the case of a false enchantment, our knowledge is self-deception. WH Auden
It is only in the second half of life that we come to understand that dying is not opposed to life. Dying is a part of a greater mystery—and we are a part of that mystery. In my experience, it is usually the older psyche that is ready to hear such sober truth.
Aging is not for the weak. One day you wake up and realize that youth is gone, so go insecurity, haste, and the need to please.Learn towalk more slowly, but with greater certainty. Aging means accepting, discovering that beauty was never in our skin but in the story we carry inside us.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
What some call “liminal space” or threshold space (in Latin, limen means a threshold) is a very good phrase for those special times, events, and places that open us up to the sacred. It seems we need special (sacred) days to open us up to all days being special and sacred.
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Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool,Wales. The seat of the Herbert family, the castle is known for its formal gardens and for its interiors, the former having been described as "the most important" in the country.
Tuesday and the prefect accompaniment to The Great British Bake Off ( proudly sponsored by @waitrose3.bsky.social )
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Glad to be present to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate here at St Chads Cathedral
Glad to be present to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate here at St Chads Cathedral
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life?
A Responsibility for Our Tradition
To be part of a life-giving tradition brings with it a moral responsibility to make it even better as we pass it on to future generations. –Brian
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To be part of a life-giving tradition brings with it a moral responsibility to make it even better as we pass it on to future generations.
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The contemplative life is not a way of knowing. It is not the path of certitude. In fact, that’s what makes it so alive, so necessarily active. Our glimpses of “arrival” along the way are places we can catch our breath and recall we are moving in the right direction.
In the end, contemplation is not about escaping life but entering it more fully. It is how we listen for God in the silence—and how we hear God in the cries of the poor, the groaning of creation, and the joy of being alive. It is how we live from that place for the sake of the world.
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We are part of a living tradition of action and contemplation, people who have gone beyond the theoretical and are living out this wisdom in their daily lives. Truly, it will take a movement of such people to create a world where everything belongs.
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Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing.
Everything is in us — all we need to do is look for it and know how to look.
Everything is in us — all we need to do is look for it and know how to look.
Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.
—Walter Brueggemann
—Walter Brueggemann
Let us be carriers of the gospel. The gospel of the revolutionary, brown-skinned Palestinian Jew who made it very clear that he didn’t come to be status quo. He wasn’t a chaplain of the empire but a prophet of God.
Life will break you. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
And so the season slowly moves and changes : signs of that this morning in the light and colour and temperature which caused the use of one of last year’s Christmas presents ( and effective it was on the walk in to @sarumcollege.bsky.social
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CAC Founder Richard Rohr Franciscan friar and ecumenical teacher, Father Richard Rohr bears witness to the deep wisdom of Christian mysticism and
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One of the best disguises for evil is religion.
Those are the things that prophets point out, so prophets aren’t nearly as popular as priests. Prophets honor the tradition, and they also say what’s phony about the tradition. That’s what spiritually mature people can do.
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Those are the things that prophets point out, so prophets aren’t nearly as popular as priests. Prophets honor the tradition, and they also say what’s phony about the tradition. That’s what spiritually mature people can do.
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James Woodward
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· Oct 12
A person is a confederacy of parts often at odds with each other, but a promise to own every part of yourself, even those that challenge your preferred self-image and falsify the story you tell yourself.
There is a peace that comes from this which renders life truer and therefore more alive.
There is a peace that comes from this which renders life truer and therefore more alive.