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Students at the Yadkin Early College got a crash course in Catholicism, what the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI meant to the world and why it should matter to a group of Yadkin County students.
David Brown, substituting for Blake Johnson's civic class, called in Jose Gonzalez and Alexandra Banasik to discuss the topic with his students and how this historical news pertains to them.
"This is not necessarily a civics topic, but I think something that hasn't happened in 600 years is significant," Brown said. "This is a societal issue, and civics is also a social course."
Gonzalez and Banasik are both coordinators for the Hispanic ministry for the diocese of Charlotte. Through their positions they work to help priests to organize and work with their Spanish congregations.
They are also the parents of a Yadkin Early College student, and when Brown learned about their positions in the church he saw a perfect opportunity for a question and answer session for his class.
Banasik said that the now that the Pope has announced his resignation there have been many speculations as to why he made the decision. There has been talk of a scandal and talk of illness. She points out that no one knows the reason for the decision.
"Do you know anyone in this county that is 85 years old that is still working?" Gonzalez asked the class.
No one answered, and Gonzalez pointed out that this proved his point. He noted that the Pope must work 12-hour days seven days a week.
"We have problems in our home, and our Pope has problems in his home as well," Gonzalez said. "The Pope doesn't only worry about Catholics; he worries about everyone because God created everyone."
Gonzalez went on to explain to the students that the Vatican operates as a small country, and the Pope acts as the spiritual leader and the president of the Vatican.
Banasik said the Pope will leave his post on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m., and once he steps down the Cardinals of the church will gather to decide who will be the next chosen. The Cardinals have 20 days to make their choice and typically choose a Cardinal to nominate.
"The Pope who takes over must be strong mentally and physically, and he needs to know what he's talking about," Banasik said.
Gonzalez said that during the interval the church's secretary of state would be in charge of the Vatican.
One student inquired whether the church would ever allow a female Pope to be nominated.
"The Catholic church cannot accept a woman as Pope," Banasik said. "The church doesn't believe that women can handle the responsibilities of Pope. Men are the head of the family in the Bible, and the church is a family. So a man must be the head of the church."
Gonzalez pointed out that many things have changed with the times within the church, and that this too could be changed in the future. However, Gonzalez said it's unlikely for now.
Gonzalez explained that once the Pope leaves the Vatican he will no longer be involved in the decision making and will head to a convent where he will spend his time praying and writing.
This addresses the Pope's recognition as being infallible. Gonzalez said that the Pope is only considered infallible while he is in the cathedral teaching. When he is out of the cathedral he is considered human and not divine.
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The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery that happened late Sunday night at a home in Salley.
The incident happened at approximately 11:40 p.m. at a home on Poole Road, according to a report. The 58-year-old victim said that at about 10 p.m. a woman named Toshia came to his home and woke him by knocking on his back door. The victim said he has known the woman for about three weeks, and that she has been to his home three or four times with her female roommate.
The victim said he let Toshia into his home, and she asked him for a beer, according to the report. He said she could get one and went back to his room. Toshia later entered the room with a beer in her hand, and two men with shotguns held the victim at gunpoint, according to the report. Both gunmen were wearing bandanas over their faces and dark clothes.
The gunmen rolled the victim onto his stomach, duct taped his hands and feet together and put tape over his eyes, according to the report. The men then went through his pants pockets and wallet where they found his bank card. After getting the victim's PIN, one man went to the bank in Wagener to withdraw money while the other held a shotgun to the victim's head, according to the report.
After the gunman returned, one man asked the victim for pain medication and wanted to know where the victim's safe is, according to the report. He told them he didn't have a safe and said he heard them "going through the house" before they drove off.
"When he thought they were gone, he rolled off the bed and got his hands free," the report stated. He then called his brother and 911.
Missing from the victim's home were the keys to his vehicle, a cellphone, two shotguns, ammunition, a television, cash and medication. No arrests have been made.
The Sheriff's Office is also investigating a robbery that happened at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Sunday at a home on Myrtle Street in Gloverville. The victim in that case said he was approached by a gunman while sitting on his front porch. The gunman reportedly robbed the homeowner of several electronics, then tied the victim up with a power cord. No arrests have been made in that case either.
Anyone with information about either of these cases is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at 803-648-6811, or CrimeStoppers of the Midlands at 888-CRIME-SC. Callers will remain anonymous and could be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime and courts beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since August 2012. He is a native of Williston and majored in communication studies at Clemson University.
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Charleston-based Water Missions International recently received Charity Navigator's coveted four-star rating for sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency for the seventh year in a row.
"Only two percent of the charities we rate have received at least seven consecutive four-star evaluations, indicating that Water Missions International outperforms most other charities in America," Charity Navigator president and CEO Ken Burger said. "This 'exceptional' designation from Charity Navigator differentiates Water Missions International from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust."
Charity Navigator helps guide intelligent giving by providing information on more 5,000 charities and by evaluating the financial health of those organizations. Forbes, Business Week and Kiplinger's Financial Magazine have profiled and celebrated Charity Navigator's unique method of applying data-driven analysis to the charitable sector.
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Water Missions International currently has full-time staff in nine countries around the world – Honduras, Haiti, Mexico, Belize, Peru, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Indonesia. In addition to providing sustainable access to safe water to people in these countries and 49 others, Water Missions International also stands ready to respond in the wake of a disaster.
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The Masters golf tournament brings a lot of well-known, big names of the sport close to home.
The tournament is an exciting time for golf fans around the world, but especially in the CSRA. The Aiken Standard wants to know who residents are looking forward to seeing at the tournament this year and asked some of local golf enthusiasts about their favorite player.
Whether it's on the green in Augusta or here in Aiken County at their favorite sports bar with friends, these residents will surely be cheering on their favorite golfers.
Jan Snipes Favorite golfer: Rory Mcllroy Snipes met Mcllroy in Hilton Head and told him that he was her son's favorite. He gave Snipes a hug and asked if he was her favorite, too. "He has a wonderful smile. He has a good attitude. He cares for people."×
Lou Kleynen Favorite golfer: Bubba Watson "He's a long hitter. He's a little bit crazy, but he has a good touch around the greens, as well."×
Bill Hardy Favorite golfer: Matt Kuchar "I expect him to win everything. I think he's got the distance. He also has a good attitude whenever he steps onto the golf course."×
Winnie Brown Favorite golfer: Phil Mickelson "He has a good testimony on and off the course."×
Rob Lee Favorite golfer: Tiger Woods "I feel he is an ambassador for golf. I like his swing. He makes the game more fun to watch. He brings excitement to the game."×
Tony Venetz Favorite golfer: Tiger Woods Venetz said he appreciates how Woods was able to get back into the game despite his past troubles in his personal life. "He's not a quitter. He's good for golf – he's still good for golf."×
Brooks Blackburn Favorite golfer: It's a tie between Fred Couples, USC Aiken alum Scott Brown or his dad, Jack Blackburn. Regarding Fred Couples – "The guy is just phenomenal. He'll probably make the cut."×
Logan Scott Favorite golfer: Phil Mickelson "I'm left-handed. He's left-handed and he's really good."×
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Loyola University Maryland in Rome is run in conjunction with the Catholic University of America. The "Eternal City" offers unique opportunities for our students to be fully immersed in the Italian culture and language, in European history and in the history of the Catholic Church. Rome is one of the world's major capitals with a population of 3 million. The program is located in downtown Rome in the Prati neighborhood. Language courses are taught by Italiaidea, a successful and dynamic Italian language institute. Dr. David Dawson Vasquez, a theology professor from Catholic University and a Rome resident, is our on-site program director.
This program is an intensive full immersion program. Students take Italian language courses and live with Italian host families. Students use public transportation to get from their homes to the school, and generally will adjust to living an Italian lifestyle. Courses are based on Italy and Rome, and the city becomes your classroom as professors will conduct courses at various onsite locations.
Studying abroad is a privilege that students earn by receiving and maintaining the required cumulative GPA set forth by the study abroad program of their choice. All students must also demonstrate through their disciplinary record (both on and off campus) to the Office of International Programs that they are able to represent Loyola University Maryland and the United States through the display of personal responsibility, honesty, and integrity for self and others by making wise choices and avoiding risky and/or harmful behavior that could jeopardize their privilege to study abroad and/or harm the reputation of Loyola University, the host university and their fellow students.
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Vt. arms dealer sues over Romanian semiauto weaponsBy Bruce Edwards
STAFF WRITER | February 07,2013At a time when talk of gun control has led to a run on weapons and ammunition sales at gun shops around the country, a Vermont company thats the largest importer and wholesaler of surplus weapons in North America, is engaged in a legal battle with a Colorado company for allegedly siphoning off as much as $4 million in profits.
Century International Arms of Georgia alleges in its federal lawsuit that M+M Inc. of Eastlake, Colo., solicited business from C.N. Romarm S.A., the Romanian government-owned weapons company, in violation of what the company says is tantamount to an exclusivity contract to import and sell certain Romarm weapons in the U.S.
On Tuesday, eight months after the lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Vermont, M+M Inc. filed a response denying all of Century Internationals allegations while seeking dismissal of the case.
Century International Arms (www.centuryarms.com), which operates a manufacturing and distribution center in the Arrowhead Industrial Park in Georgia, imports a variety of surplus weapons, including the popular Romanian WASR-10 semiautomatic rifle.
Century takes the imported weapons and makes modifications at its Georgia facility to meet U.S. gun laws. The modified firearms are then sold to gun dealers as the GP/WASR 10/63 KR.
Centurys corporate address is in Delray Beach, Fla.
As a result of M+Ms interference with its contracts with Romarm/FAC, Century has been unable to fill its customers orders, harming Centurys reputation and crippling its ability to meet demand, according to the companys June 2012 lawsuit.
FAC (S.C. Fabrica De Arme Cugir) is Romarms manufacturing subsidiary.
Century and Romarm have been doing business for 10 years. The latest contract dated March 2011 requires Romarm to sell a specified number of weapons each month.
In exchange, Century agreed to pay Romarm, on average, a minimum of $1.35 million per quarter and a minimum of $350,000 a month, the eight-page lawsuit stated.
But Century said while it has lived up to its part of the agreement, Romarm/FAC has failed to deliver the required quantity of firearms to century under the 2011 contract.
In addition to the contract, Century points out that the companies also signed a Business Promotion and Protection Agreement. The companies agreed to be loyal to each other and to work jointly to promote the sales of Romanian firearms and accessories in the United States.
Century is barred from filing suit against Romarm because the contracts are subject to arbitration.
The lawsuit points out that the agreements require both Century and Romarm to participate in arbitration in Paris under international rules.
Century alleges that its inability to meet demand is based in part on Romarm selling surplus weapons to M+M Inc (www.cogunsales.com). At the time the lawsuit was filed, Romarm had already supplied M+M with 12,405 firearms and accessories in the previous 18 months and agreed to supply the Colorado wholesaler with an additional 24,000 firearms and accessories from August through February 2013.
Century argues that it is entitled to all weapons and accessories sold to M+M.
M+Ms usurping of those firearms and accessories has deprived Century of millions of dollars in revenue and close to $2 million on profit in the last twelve monthsm, the lawsuit said. If M+M receives shipment of the remaining 24,000 firearms and accessories through February 2013, Centurys lost profits will more than double.
In a letter dated Sept. 2, 2011, Century notified M+M of its exclusive contract with Romarm. M+M replied in a letter five days later that it would take Centurys letter into consideration.
Centurys lawsuit alleges that since at least May 2011, M+M has taken action to disrupt Centurys relationship with Romarm and advising Romarm to violate its agreements with Century.
The lawsuit further alleges that two foreign companies, InterOrdinance Austria and CIT Bahamas are helping M+M in its dealings with Romarm.
In its eight-page response filed with the court, M+M alleged that whatever damages Century incurred were caused by the acts or omissions of third parties (Romarm) beyond its control. The Colorado arms wholesaler also argued that the contracts in question expired prior to M+M doing business with Romarm. In addition, M+M alleged that the exclusivity provision violate the laws of Romania and the European Union.
Century is asking the court to award damages of at least $4 million, plus punitive damages and attorneys fees.
M+M is represented by Pamela Moreau of the Burlington law firm of Murphy Sullivan Kronk and John Zakhem of Denver, Colo.
Century International Arms is represented by Andrew Manitsky of Gravel & Shea in Burlington.
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The Student Center on the east side of campus also includes: the Student Leadership Development office; Undergraduate Student Government; student organization offices; ACCC Computer Lab; A. Montgomery Ward Gallery; Wellness Center; bowling, billiards and video games; and Credit Union 1.
The Student Center on the west side of campus also includes: the Campus Programs Office; Graduate Student Council; Sport and Fitness Center; photo ID center; art lounge; Craft Shop; and service center (which supplies maps, CTA tokens and more).
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Lillian Daniel nails the "spiritual but not religious" crowd
David Gibson January 28, 2013 - 12:04pm
United Church of Christ* pastor Lillian Daniel, author of a new book, When Spiritual But Not Religious Is Not Enough," is profiled by Bob Abernethy of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. She rocks the house:
ABERNETHY: At Howard University in Washington, DC recently, Daniel railed at writers and others who, she says, have blamed the church for many of the worlds biggest problems.REV LILLIAN DANIEL: What church community are you describing? Because it is not mine. And how dare you presume to paint me with that broad and offensive brush? So why is it that when the spiritual but not religious complain about Christianity, why dont we get mad? Why dont we tell them a different story, of a progressive church where your questions are welcomed, where we worship a God who invented us and not the other way around.ABERNETHY: Daniels audience included the dean of the Howard chapel and Howards president and his wife. She referred to them when she acknowledged her own part in what she calls Americas culture of narcissism.DANIEL: in which it is so easy to think, Its all about me. So much so that when the dean told me quietly that the president and first lady were here today you know where my mind went. Im from Chicago. I said, Barack and Michelle? Here?ABERNETHY: But Daniels humor is not always so gentle. She ridicules people she says try to make up their own God and their own forms of worship.DANIEL: Often some shallow combination of exercise and caffeine, coffee shops as spiritual community, hikes as pilgrimages, The New York Times as sacred text, and sunsetsdont ever forget the sunsets. These people are always informing you that they find God in the sunsets. Well, excuse me, as if people who go to church didnt see God in a sunset. You know, my take is that any idiot can find God in the sunset. What is remarkable is finding God in the context of flawed human community, and a tradition bigger than you are with people who may not reflect God back to you in your own image.Part of the nature of religion, so much beat up on in our society, part of the nature of religion is that it delivers a message that is like sandpaper against the culture of narcissism. It is not all about you and, no, you cannot make it up. The beauty of a long tradition is that it is bigger than anything we can do by ourselves.
Amen. And there's more. Read it all here...
* The original version of this post erroneously referred to Daniel as a Methodist pastor.
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The up to date and spiritual but not religious character in the Evelyn Waugh novel about Constantine's mother, Helena: We "have to move with the times. It's no use trying to puncture the horologium. . . what they were taught may have been all very well in the catacombs, but now we have to deal with a much more sophisticated type of mind altogether."
The courageous and right thing to do is to stay with the family and build it up. Countless women stayed with abusive husbands until death did them part, because priests told them the same thing.For an individual to stay in a family or a club or a church or any "community" where she is not valued is sick. You know, my take is that any idiot can find God in the sunset. What is remarkable is finding God in the context of flawed human community, and a tradition bigger than you are with people who may not reflect God back to you in your own image.Gibberish.
Im with you on the richness of tradition, David. But Ive never understood the impulse to ridicule people who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious. Cant we just be happy for people searching out their path to God? Why the need to get so ticked off about it?
Yuck, David.Those who avoid organized religion have compelling reasons for doing so. If anyone is using a "broad and offensive brush," it's Lillian Daniel. Her denunciation of "coffee shops as spiritual community" is fatuous. What does that mean? Is she unaware of the importance of coffee houses in our nation's history? The patriots who plotted the Revolution met in coffee houses, not in churches. http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring01/coffeehouses.cfm
Thank you, Kevin. I too am somewhat surprised that you (David Gibson) seem to think that Lillian Daniel's judgment of the "SBNR" is something to hold up as a "good" thing when it is neither accurate nor fair. It comes across as a rant. I have been astonished at the fury so many in the clergy show to those who are SBNR. These excessively angry attacks seem to arise among those in the clergy who feel threatened by those who don't see the world, nor God, nor spirituality exactly as they do. This minister is angry about attacks by atheists on christianity that are one-sided, but she has she missed all the polls that show that most SBNR are NOT atheists? Nor even agnostic? Perhaps the professional religionists should spend some time reflecting on what "institutional" religion is doing that is driving so many away. Angry defensiveness and strident judgments are not likely to attract many back into the pews.
David's not alone in his admiration. Lillian's book at Amazon:#1 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Religion#4 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Regional U.S. > West#6 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Sociology
I think that the point that Lillian makes that should have the most traction concerns the critical value of (most?) religion's corporate orientation (e.g., the Church is the body of Christ, and all that jazz). I agree that her message seems dispersed in that she's making fun of SBNRs on the basis of her reaction against atheists activists. Moreover, I suspect that she makes a crucial error in discounting the harm religious organizations can work in people's lives. When she said, "Or they have been a part of organized religion where theyve been damaged and hurt in profound ways. All you can do is respond compassionately and just be so sad that that happened," I cringed. It seems that a compassionate response has to include accepting that people have legitimate reasons for abandoning religions. The thing is, the basic subtext of her message seemed to boil down to :"Yes, a lot of religious groups blow, but some of them are progressive. Go join one of them." I don't think that that is illegitimate, but it doesn't really address some of the more profound issues that may be driving disaffection with religion.
Kevin: Yes, it's a rant, but a fairly genial one, I thought, and much needed. My biases: I tend to cringe at the holier-than-thou crowd. I also greatly favor the both/and approach instead of the either/or approach. And I do think the religious-and-spiritual approach has much to recommend it -- building up a community, a culture, the common good. There is communal worship, and responsibility. There is a connection across time, forwards and backwards, as well as in the present. There is much that just spiritual (like "just religious") does not have. So yes, I like her rant, and think it is a justified self-defense against those who mock those among us who are religious as well. And I would indulge in the observation, surely belied my many anecdotes, that spiritual-but-not-religious folks are generally not terribly deep in their spirituality. In my experience it is usually a shrug of the shoulders rather than an expression of a serious commitment and practice. Sort of like when someone calls themselves agnostic. They say, Well, you just can't know. Generally, they just haven't tried to know. I tend to see a central crisis in faith and culture today as one of a lack of seriousness -- I completely respect serious atheists, or anyone who explores and commits to something is a real way. I don't think very many of us do.Okay, so there's my rant...
I don't see the "seriousness" in Lillian's book. Maybe the sample available at Amazon leaves out the deep bits. Reading about her adventures standing in line for the bathroom, etc., makes me think Burpo's book may not be so bad, after all.
Personally, I just keep a picture of a bull in my cabinet that I give some water to every morning. I consider myself to be cultic, but not religious (CBNR).
CBNR -- now that's a keeper. To be fair and balanced, as they say, here is evidence against my argument -- the spiritual-but-not-religiosity of the sublime RuPaul, today's Meister Eckhart:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/rupaul-divine-mystical-wi...
If you read the whole interview you will see that she is balanced. Despite the corruption in religious communities and the "leaven of the Pharisees" a community is important as striving sinful people. As Dorothy Day says :"The church is a whore but she is my mother." If you just stay away then you are definitely missing the physical community. There is no church without community and that community is definitely physical. The definition of church is "a gathering."Jesus still dealt with the religious leaders despite their corruption. The courageous and right thing to do is to stay with the family and build it up. Even so called purely "spiritual" people have their faults. We are a sinful people who welcome redemption through Jesus Christ. We should stay together.
"You know, my take is that any idiot can find God in the sunset. What is remarkable is finding God in the context of flawed human community, and a tradition bigger than you are with people who may not reflect God back to you in your own image."Amen to that.
Bill, "There is no church without community and that community is definitely physical". That may be true in a literal sense of "church". But it does not rule out the reality that people can be both religious and spiritual without belonging to a formal religious community. If those people are Christian and strive to follow Christ's teachings, are they not also members of Christ's "body"? And if so, are they not also part of Christ's "church" - even though they are not in specific type of building with a particular group of people each Sunday? And why is it more "courageous" to stay within what many see as a dysfunctional church than to refuse to continue to enable it?
I agree vigorously with your observation about community, Bill.Maybe your observation that we are sinful people is one motive for looking elsewhere for community. Im not a sinful person, and neither are most of the people I encounter every day. Most of us try to lead decent, generous lives. Its knowing that about ourselves which makes us so gregarious.Hearing the priest say every Sunday morning let us now call to mind our sins has me looking around church and checking for the fire exits. After Mass I miss no opportunity to remind my children that this view of humanity is simply wrong. It is a contradiction of why God delights in uslacking in rigor, to Davids point.
I think some people in organized religion - especially those whose jobs are in organized religion - are actually afraid of the SBNR people .... God forbid someone might find God in their own and obviate the organization - eek! And there's a certain arrogance in the dismissal of SBNR people's spiritual depth - a lot of those people were once in organized religion and they have kept the spiritual practices they learned there.The opposite caricature by the Onion - "Father Clancy Donahue of St. Michael Catholic Church told reporters Wednesday that while he believed in blindly adhering to the dogma and ceremonies of his faith, he tried not to get too bogged down by actual spirituality." ... http://www.theonion.com/articles/priest-religious-but-not-really-spiritu...
PS ...Here's a video interview with Diana Butler Bass about SBNR people and her book Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening ....http://youtu.be/L5DoQMGyjC0
Ann, we should stay with it without "enabling" it. Kevin, Perhaps you are referring to the depressed syndrome which languishes in guilt. Are you saying you are without sin. The reality is that we tend to be selfish and not altruistic. Saying we are a sinful people does not mean we do not strive to do well. We have to distinguish between those who believe they are relieved of virtue by faith alone. Gerelyn, the fact that we stay does not mean that we should accept abuse. Now more than ever, we are confronting the leaders who are not good examples and do not build up the community. I accept those small communities that meet in the Eucharist. But the church is a big tent and we should stay but not passively as we make the church better. On the other hand are you content without a community? Crystal, that many in organized religion are self serving and lack charity does not free us from the family. Peter and the Apostles had many faults. Yet they worked through things to build the church, the community. Look at how Paul worked with different factions.The fourth century brought much damage to the church and the fact is that the Fathers of the church presided over it. Yet today we have the opportunity to build the church, with Francis, more than at any other time since the bishops cannot use soldiers anymore to punish those who correct them. Othewise, where do we go? Going from Guru to Guru?
I don't know when the spiritual-not-religious dichotomy began, but it has gained a lot of traction in the last seventy-five years or so from Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs. Many alcoholics come to AA after trying, or trying to try, everything else, including church. But structure, ordered community, and a system of beliefslet alone condemnations and anathemas, or uncomprehending appeals to exert will powerare as helpful as expecting a cat to do algebra. So AA hit on the idea of making no demands. "The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking." And even that can be tenuous and faltering. Recovery is about following suggestions, not obeying commandments, and the suggestions are rooted in the actual experience of what other men and women have done to achieve sobriety, and not in revelations from on high. In the end, reliance upon God is a big part of it, but that is left up to the understanding of each member. It is a path for people who are desperate and yet still rebellious, a modern sort of sensibility."Spiritual" also contrasts very sharply with "material," of course, where it will mean a belief in an order of being not rooted in anything corporeal or verifiable by the senses. All major religions hold that belief in some form, I think, as the traditional explanation of natural mysteries, and some of them may feel threatened as those mysteries yield to natural explanations.
On the one hand, I was raised a Unitarian Universalist. By the types of people Daniel describes. My mother seems to be some sort of spiritist (I was the only person in elementary school who could have told you who Bridey Murphy was), but the idea of God struck Mother as looney. My dad believed that all organized religion was a scam, not unlike fire insurance, but really smarter because churches had figured out how to make their money tax free. He said that God may have created the world but He was clearly no longer interested in it, and the proof was right there in the newspaper every night.I confess I felt a kind of despair in their ideas from the time I was fairly young, it wasn't until I was 24 that I could admit that I felt pulled to more traditional Christianity (me and T. S. Eliot, both Unitarian converts to Anglicanism, and there any other parallels end, except for liking cats).On the other hand, my parents had some ugly, even traumatic, encounters with organized religion. They wanted to live rational and ethical lives, though they imposed reason and ethics somewhat selectively on themselves. But I know traditionally religious people who do that, too. Their journeys may have been side-tracks, but they knew bad religion when they saw it. And they were heart-sick when I was baptized because, as far as they were concerned, it meant embracing close-mindedness, empty ritual, and the smug pew sitters.And having been, for the past 20 years, a denizen of both Anglican and Catholic communities, I can't say that I don't see some truth in their characterizations.So while I understand what Daniel is ranting about (however good naturedly) and agree with it, I also suspect she has no idea what her views look like to people who were damaged in some way by religion. She might want to check her charity-meter.
For the past 20 years? Yikes make that more like 35!
Bill, how do we stay in without enabling? How do we "work with" the hierarchy? We have no voice EXCEPT our money and our feet. We cannot "work with" those who don't want to work with us AND who also hold all the power. They take our money and refuse transparency or accountability nor do they ask those who are funding them what they think church is and should be. As Gerelyn noted, hanging around to be abused by the one in power doesn't help build anything good. Sometimes you have to tear down the collapsing structure before you can begin to rebuild.Crystal has pointed out what seems to be a factor in the shrillness of those like Lillian Daniel - they do seem to feel threatened by those who have active and deep religious and spiritual lives outside church doors. Some "need" community. Nothing wrong with that, but why are they so angry at those who don't need a formal religious community in their religious and spiritual life?
Bill, i'm not saying there's no value in community. But every post I've seen at a Catholic site about SBNR people has been derogatory. Why not respect them as different but ok?
Crystal, Right. We should recognize good will wherever it is. Ann, while there are many legitimate objectors, there is a tendency for some to rebel for rebellion sake. As I read Daniel that may be to whom she is referring. She does not deny the shortcomings of religious leaders. As critics of SPNR people go, wouldn't you say that Daniel is rather mild compared to the monarchists in the church. People like that are angry at immigrants and other minorities. The challenge is always to rebuild the church. The mediocre will always be there.
R. R. Reno over on First Things is also denouncing the spiritual but not religious today, and doing it by trashing Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama:
And so our age applauds the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and other adepts of negation and critique. God without priests. Churches without authority. Faiths that are optional. Its wonderfully liberating. The divine cant get his hands on us anymore! Now we can be spiritual without being religious. Its the luxury good human beings have always wanted: bespoke worship, idols made to spec.
Lillian Daniel and R. R. Reno make me want to be spiritual but not religious. Or maybe neither spiritual nor religious.
Get yourself a bull.
I am not aware of any "spiritual" tradition that does not have a corresponding "religious" body to bind it together. The etymology of religious means "to bind" or "place and obligation on".All spirituality, in my view, needs to be embodied in some fashion. Berdyaev has a wonderful quote to that effect: "Bread for me is a material question; bread for my neighbour is a spiritual one." That does not mean that we are going to be feeding our neighbours "spiritual" bread, it means actual bread. However, what animates us are impulses that bring us beyond our own egoistic natures. Those impulses are, or at least can be, referred to as spiritual impulses but the binding nature of the obligation comes from religious traditions.In a similar fashion, I do not see how spirituality itself cannot be embodied in a community which in turn builds and nurtures it.Even Kaballah Jewish mystics, as far as I understand it, rely heavily on the group.Simone Weil was a mystic that I admire. She was never formally baptized in the Church but she saw the importance of it both as an institution and a body. The American (although not exclusive to America, USA has mythologized it heavily) experience of individualism has had a profound impact on religious sensibilities. The myth of the individual is a strong one in American culture.Religion has a lot to teach us about community, about living together in a big tent and what that obligation means as Bill has been saying.Flannery O'Connor, Simone Weil, and Bonhoeffer all, I think, struggled with the question of Christian ecclesiology in a postmodern world.But I think it is a mistake to cast aside religion as it is, in fact, the vessel through which spiritual traditions have a binding effect on us. We are not always on the side of the angels!!
@ Crystal Watson"God forbid someone might find God in their own". Can one "find" God in any meaningful way without being in communion with other women and men?
Anthony,I don't know for sure, but I would think that a relationship between an individual and God is always possible, whether that person is all alone or in a community. In that video talk I linked to above, Diana Bass said that in 2009 a study found that about 50% of Americans said they believed they had had a religious experience. I think that's what's important to many people - a personal relationship/experience of God - and though you may arrive at that through some religious practice like prayer or meditation or the Spiritual Exercises, I'm not sure that you would need to be part of a community to achieve it. For one thing, it isn't really a human accomplishment alone - God is part of the equation. Don't know if that makes sense (except to me ;)
The etymology of religious means to bindYes, the "lig" part means to bind (as in ligature), but the "re" part means re (again). Religion means to re-tie, to re-bind, as if the original bond between the Creator and Her child had been sundered. Who is capable of doing the re-binding? People like Lillian, of course, priests, shamans, ministers. Naturally she opposes the notion that go-betweens are not needed, that re-ligion itself is not needed, that our spirits can commune with Creator Spirita without help.
Can one find God in any meaningful way without being in communion with other women and men?The desert Ammas and Abbas, the stylites, the anchorites, the hermits, etc. manage.(As do those who follow Jesus' injunction: when you pray, go into the closet and shut the door.)
Gerelyn:Yet we have a historical record of what occurred with that movement to the desert. St. Benedict discusses the varieties of monasticism and the disparate practices that did not always lead to an ethical and upright life.The "rule" was devised precisely to address this tendency.Jesus, for his part, was not irreligious but was deeply involved in the religious controversies of his day as the book "A Marginal Jew" demonstrates.
oh, an example ...I've been listening to a video series from Georgetown University on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. The first one is here, for those interested ... http://youtu.be/5gMTEYHB130At the start of the second one ... http://youtu.be/Vk0F7CVtKFI ...the speaker emphasizes that the Spiritual Exercises isn't about doing good acts but instead the retreat is about allowing God to reveal himself to the person making the retreat. By the end of the retreat the person will probably come to a decision about how to make the world a better place with what he's experienced, but it's the experience that comes first and that can only be individual ..."[S]o often the Spiritual Exercises ... have been interpreted as moral uplift, giving new motivations for good activity, giving you a sense of moral strength, stamina, to go about living the Christian life the way you should. Now there's nothing wrong with that, but it eviscerates the whole idea of experience and of new revelation, of the introduction of new designs that God might have for an individual ... how you should perform instead of how God is revealing God's self to you.""
PSI am a bit ambivalent about this question as I found Bonhoeffer's "religionless Christianity" compelling. Still, I am uneasy about a kind of free roaming spirituality unhitched from any tradition.
Yet we have a historical record of what occurred with that movement to the desert. St. Benedict discusses the varieties of monasticism and the disparate practices that did not always lead to an ethical and upright life.Benedict praises the "Anchorites, or Hermits, that is, of those who, no longer in the first fervor of their conversion, but taught by long monastic practice and the help of many brethren, have already learned to fight against the devil; and going forth from the rank of their brethren well trained for single combat in the desert, they are able, with the help of God, to cope single-handed without the help of others, against the vices of the flesh and evil thoughts."(Your claim about Simone Weil is off, too.)
Methinks Susie Starbucks ain't Evagrius Ponticus.
I give her credit for reaching out to people that are spiritual but not religious. Catholics should certainly be doing the same.It just seems to me that Paul of Tarsus' entire ministry consisted of planting Christian communities, and then trying to help them to cope and thrive. If living communally isn't the normative way of living a Christian life, then we can save a lot of trees by cutting about half of the New Testament out of the Bible.I don't know how one can be a Christian without being part of a community of disciples. It seems to me to be a constitutive element. If we care about people, I believe we should be initiating them into our community.
Yes, there are reasons for hermits. But most of us do better in groups, and groups maintain traditions, including understandings of all sorts of things that individuals cannot reach on our own. One life simply isn't long enough to learn what a whole long series of people have learned. And then there are the Sacraments. . .I think that part of the problem with the Catholic Church these days is that too many people were brought up to "believe in" the Pope and bishops, rather than believing in the Church. Yes, the popes and bishops have authority to speak as best they can for the whole, and when they do so we're really dumb when we dismiss what they say out of hand. There is more wisdom in a group than an individual. Sure, groups make mistakes, but individuals make even more.
Has anyone ever wondered how these anchorites, stylites and hermits ate a balanced diet and otherwise took care of their physical needs? Especially how did those "athletes for God," the Stylites, who lived on platforms on top of pillars and did hundreds of push ups while waiting for the imminent return of Christ, get enough nutrition and sanitation to keep going without getting sick? Did they not have helpers who might be called a community? Two Byzantine Emperors visited Daniel the Stylite. Was the visit for advice or was it like the visits of present day politicians to religious leaders such as a prominent Bishop or the Rev. Billy Graham? What kind of advice could these people give? Or did the visitors just come to look at them for a Sunday afternoon entertainment?
I'm a little bit dismissive of the SBNR people myself (perhaps unfairly so); the ones I run into actually don't seem very spiritual.
Over the last sixty years Ive noticed a change in the referent of the word religion. In two of the most famous definitions of religion offered in the modern era, the accent falls upon the individual. William James:
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.
Alfred North Whitehead acknowledged a definition of religion on its doctrinal side, as a system of general truths which have the effect of transforming character when they are sincerely held and vividly apprehended. but his emphasis, too, will fall on the individual:
In the long run your character and your conduct of life depend upon your intimate convictions. Life is an internal fact for its own sake, before it is an external fact relating itself to others. The conduct of external life is conditioned by environment, but it receives its final quality, on which its worth depends, from the internal life which is the self-realisation of existence. Religion is the art and the theory of the internal life of man, so far as it depends on the man himself and on what is permanent in the nature of things.This doctrine is the direct negation of the theory that religion is primarily a social fact. Social facts are of great importance to religion, because there is no such thing as absolutely independent existence. You cannot abstract society from man; most psychology is herd- psychology. But all collective emotions leave untouched the awful ultimate fact, which is the human being, consciously alone with itself, for its own sake.Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness....Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious. Collective enthusiasms, revivals, institutions, churches, rituals, bibles, codes of behaviour, are the trappings of religion, its passing forms.They may be useful, or harmful; they may be authoritatively ordained, or merely temporary expedients. But the end of religion is beyond all this.
Its interesting that now, among the SPNR, religion is taken to mean all the externalities, whereas all the internal dimensions are assigned to spirituality. The latter term used to refer to reflection on the spiritual life, as in the great classics or in works presenting the wisdom of the Christian spiritual tradition. Now spirituality is commonly individualized so that someone may speak of my spirituality where when I was young we might have spoken of my spiritual life. At Catholic University where there is a graduate program in spirituality, some students were surprised to learn that its most important courses explored the classics of Christian spirituality.
"I think that part of the problem with the Catholic Church these days is that too many people were brought up to believe in the Pope and bishops, rather than believing in the Church. "Hi, Ann, there may be something to that. There is also the phenomenon, reported in surveys, whereby many people feel connected to their local parish community, but not so much to the universal church.
I suspect that the "SBNR" category isn't monolithic. Understandably, there has been some commentary above that takes into account the subset of folks who formerly were connected to a denomination but for whatever reasons(s) have become alienated. But surely there is another cohort out there, possibly a bigger cohort than the unchurched, who never were really "churched" in the first place. A typical scenario that I see around me would be the children of a 'mixed marriage', in which, say, a Catholic married an Evangelical, and they had children. Both parents have a religious patrimony, but to keep harmony within the family and possibly because of a lack of fervor, the family doesn't really practice either Catholicism or Evangelicalism. They don't worship regularly (or at all), they don't pray regularly as a family, sacramental milestones are missed, and so on. And yet throughout the children's lives, there are reminders of the religious patrimony: baptisms, weddings and funerals in the extended family; or they spend the weekend with the grandparents and are taken to the grandparents' church; they see that some of their friends do have an active religious life, and perhaps some of their friends have even witnessed to their faith. These households aren't actively atheistic, and I can see that the products of such families may have inherited a sort of spirituality.
Jim Pauwels, I'm not convinced that Rev. Daniel's angry tone in "reaching out" to SBNR would attract many who are turned off by organized religion. She is angry, patronizing, dismissive, sarcastic, and judgmental. Who would be attracted to someone's church who insults you and your intelligence AND your spirituality and then says - BTW, services on Sunday are at 8 am and 10 am with Fellowship at 9.I suspect the reason a lot of Catholics were brought up to "believe in the pope and the bishops" is because this is what the Catholic church teaches officially - the pope and the bishops claim to be "channeling" God's voice and thoughts and wishes on earth - the vicar of Christ. The church claims magisterial and on occasion papal infallibility. The church itself raises its young to substitute the institution for God. How do you propose to change these church teachings?Bill, how does one stay in the church (thus supporting the current structure) without enabling? How do the people in the pews who are voiceless in the church "work with" the hierarchy? Or sometimes even with one of the new young arrogant pastors who believe that they, as priests, are ontologically superior to the people in the pews?
Anne ==As I understand it, the Church teaches that the popes and bishops have to teach what the Church believes. They have to consult with the Faithful to find out what that is. Unfortunately, this bunch doesn't seem to have gotten that message.
"Im not convinced that Rev. Daniels angry tone in reaching out to SBNR would attract many who are turned off by organized religion. She is angry, patronizing, dismissive, sarcastic, and judgmental. Who would be attracted to someones church who insults you and your intelligence AND your spirituality and then says BTW, services on Sunday are at 8 am and 10 am with Fellowship at 9."My take on her message is that she is appealing to those who don't find fulfillment from pilates, Starbucks and the NY Times - those who are left with that nagging feeling, "There must be more to life than this." And as I read her, she has a two part message for them,"1. You're right, there is more to life, and the way to find it is to situate yourself in the great Christian tradition by joining a denominational church like mine; and 2. you should check our our progressive church, which is not homophobic and judgmental and sexist."
And so our age applauds the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and other adepts of negation and critique. God without priests. Churches without authority. Faiths that are optional.The whole SBNR idea is so I'll defined, how can anyone comment on it. What about the Dalai Lama or the Anglican bishop has anything to do with "Churches without authority"? Anyone even know the Dalai Lama's name? We refer to him by title only. Maybe we can include the Pope among those who are not religious?There are real issues to be discussed about spirituality and religion, but there is a lot of silliness out there that has little to do with it. Rev Daniels at least is grappling with a part of it, religion as community.
" She is angry, patronizing, dismissive, sarcastic, and judgmental."Jim P. ==Yes, she is. And some of the SBNRs are angry at her for it. And some judge her, even as they accuse her of being "judgmental". So there's a lot of irony in the situation -- people being judgmental about others who they see as as being judgmental. At least she admits that she judges, and does so because she thinks that, yes, there are some sure moral matters. I think that a lot of this problem == or, better to say 'these problems' -- are concerned with just what the sure moral matters are. I think there aren't many people truly think there are no sure moral matters, but in the American intellectual climate right now there are many who make that claim. This is, I think, one of the reasons that the Catholic faithful now includes so many super-conservatives -- the intellectual times are so very threatening that they go for what they think is the most solid of teachings, i.e., the notion that the Church NEVER changes. They simply cannot emotionally tolerate the idea that some day they actually might not know what to do about a moral matter. It's better, they think, to be able to ask Father for answers for everything.At the other end of the spiritual/psychological extreme are people who do not accept themselves as inclined to sin. Their problem, they say, is Original Sin. Some of them find it extremely difficult to admit that they are sinners, and their solution is to believe that nothing is sure, all morality is subjective, we must do our own thing, as if others have nothing to teach us. Sometimes such people were brought up in a super-conservative background where accusations of sin never stopped, and their reaction against that is quite understandable. But I think that there are others who are are looking for an easy way out of real personal responsibility. No existential angst for them.
Hi, Ann, regarding, She is angry, patronizing, dismissive, sarcastic, and judgmental. - I just want to make sure that it's clear that this wasn't my characterization - it was Anne Chapman's, which I quoted in a subsequent comment. FWIW, I also think you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
"There is also the phenomenon, reported in surveys, whereby many people feel connected to their local parish community, but not so much to the universal church."Amen to that!
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