Sentences with phrase «spiritual practices for»

Amy Solara has been training in various healing and spiritual practices for over 5 years.

Likewise, meditation and prayer are core spiritual practices for Christ - followers.

This discerning and deciding has become a deeply spiritual practice for me.

Fasting is historically commonplace as it has been a part of spiritual practice for millennia.

Traditionally, postures were used in a spiritual practice for seated meditation.

Caring for one another is a core spiritual practice for Unitarian Universalists.

Not exact matches

RELIGION is a practice of something, not necessarily something spiritual; for example, one can brush their teeth in a religious way by brushing them before school and after dinner everyday.

I may have found it fascinating, but any celebration of head covering has to recognise that, for many women, the practice is a symbol of oppression and spiritual abuse.

And I believe that eventually we will see all those divisions fall away and truly achieve the unity that Jesus prayed for us to experience in practice and not merely in a spiritual detached sense.

Indeed, it becomes an explicit theological axiom for Luther that inward and spiritual grace is given only in and through the public, bodily, sacramental practice of the Church.

Song has always been a central worship practice for the people of God: The Israelites celebrated in song after crossing the Red Sea, and Paul talks about hymns, psalms and spiritual songs in Ephesians 5.

The acceptance of homosexuality as being a normal, acceptable practice when the Bible clearly states otherwise, is a cause for the spiritual welfare of those that are straying from the path.

This too is a good skill for pastors and part of the spiritual practice of leadership.

We still call ourselves Christian and Hindu, but we've taken each tradition's rich, valuable practices, and adopted them for our mutual spiritual path.

For the past seven years I have written extensively on indicators of malignant ministers and toxic organizational systems, principles and practices for personal recovery from traumatizing abuse of spiritual authority, and constructive system solutions for dealing with destructive organizatioFor the past seven years I have written extensively on indicators of malignant ministers and toxic organizational systems, principles and practices for personal recovery from traumatizing abuse of spiritual authority, and constructive system solutions for dealing with destructive organizatiofor personal recovery from traumatizing abuse of spiritual authority, and constructive system solutions for dealing with destructive organizatiofor dealing with destructive organizations.

In Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home, Rev. Traci Smith, a Presbyterian pastor and mama of three, offers super-practical, creative ideas for developing spiritual practices as a family.

A point of communion is the practice, discipline or place in which the Spirit has created special access to the spiritual nourishment and manna needed for each season.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.

For those who are less initiated, like the poor Japanese Christians, a religion of outward practices is permissible, but that too tends of its nature towards an ever less visible and more spiritual mode of being.

For us, it doesn't much matter if different pictures of such things (or different names for God, or different primary spiritual practices, etc.) are variFor us, it doesn't much matter if different pictures of such things (or different names for God, or different primary spiritual practices, etc.) are varifor God, or different primary spiritual practices, etc.) are varied.

(Nehemiah 13:31) Clearly, to men like this the sacrificial system was not a substitute for the interior practice of God's presence but rather the «outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.»

Women also face a contradiction in how they are valued for their spiritual and intellectual capacities but are also judged by their bodies, in both appearance (modesty) and activity (sexual practices).

But individual spiritual practices will ultimately be for the sake of the transformation of the global situation.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual liFor as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual lifor its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

Ultimately these conversations about end - of - life care tie into the ancient spiritual practice of honoring our parents and caring for the elderly.

Concretely physical, the ancient practice of pilgrimage pushes beyond the usual crop of spiritual disciplines that are only for the introverted, contemplative or intuitive.

Let me state them again: faith that peace is possible, provision for peaceful change from within the nations, international organization with the surrender of absolute national sovereignty, economic security for all men, faith in and understanding of and practice of the democratic way of life, and a unifying spiritual world community.

For Hauerwas and Marshall, the postliberal turn to Aquinas and the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches is linked to the original postliberal project of rethinking Christian orthodoxy in a postliberal spirit.

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

(219) For Walsh, we have seen, this spiritual practice is essentially identical to the synthesis of freedom and universal humanist morality that Kant first evokes.

It's important to engage in spiritual practices which work for you, but for those of us on the intellectual end of the spectrum, there's a real risk of emotional disengagement.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of conscSpiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of conscspiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

One of the other spiritual practices important for continuing the work of disarming racism is the practice of bearing witness.

But for all their dangers, these practices did offer clear, evident, physical support for spiritual realities.

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

Although maintaining an emphasis on individual transformation as the key, recent years have witnessed a movement beyond this exclusive focus to advocate the need for transformation on all levels — individual, interpersonal, institutional, and political — and the explicit valuation of social engagement as part of committed spiritual practice.

Our community allows for people of all faiths and both celebrates and practices the Golden Rule as a spiritual and human duty.

• No focus by Akron Pioneers on Dr. Carl Jung's «conversion» prescription; no focus on Dr. Frank Buchman's much - discussed «spiritual experience» usages; and no special focus on the classic Oxford Group practice of «sharing for witness.»

I have had to learn slowly and diligently to practice shalom in my body — not for someday when I'm a certain size, not for someday when I take up less space, not for theological purposes, not for when I'm dead, not as a hotly contested spiritual concept but here and right now, I want to make peace with my body.

Almsgiving is a duty of charity, a commendable spiritual practice along with prayer and fasting, and a means for us to win friends in eternity, whether by giving money to organisations or individuals who carry out the corporal works of mercy — saving the lives of pre-born babies by supporting pro-life work, feeding the hungry by the alleviation of famine, sheltering the homeless, welcoming the stranger, or the spiritual works of mercy, such as having Masses offered for people who are sick or in particular need, or those who have died and the souls in purgatory.

The church I grew up in was Protestant and practiced baptism for adult converts, a special spiritual and public sign of conversion and renewal.

The spiritual formation practices of the church before the Constantinian era suggest an alternative for today.

I had to learn from praying, crying, journalling, trauma work, EMDR, therapy, groups, sharing, discerning, body work, practicing spiritual principles that «Honor my parent» didn't fit for my life.

Everyone is different, but for the Christian who finds their walk with God has ground to a halt, or their prayer life has turned dry, these spiritual practices may prove helpful:

For it is one thing to suggest that the life of learning will always be in some sense dependent upon the exercise of spiritual virtues in however attenuated a form, quite another to imagine that the universities will turn to the practice of those spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, that give such virtues meaning and strength.

The questions that people most wanted to talk about were those concerning growth as a Christian, life goals, the mix of personal and corporate spiritual practices, how to understand God's will in today's world, how to make use of the Bible, and what it means to bear fruit for the Lord.

Simple — leave me alone and you can be as crazy / passionate / spiritual as you want... but that MUST stop at my front door the same as mine stops at yours (or can you show me the atheist politician who's pushing for the abolition of religious practices?)