arlhiker

I don't necessarily mean "cry" literally.

Let us know how this works out in your life if you believe you are.

I'm concerned because, as you know, the bear lives with a pig. And God Only Knows what goes on between Pooh and Piglet in that den behind closed doors.

Should I just not bring up that the Pooh Bear lives with a "special friend"?

It seems to me that many of our atheist friends do not wish to use what I know are their creative powers to tell of the majesty of Life and the Universe in a way which captures their mystery-- but which at the same time does not denigrate people of faith.

Can those mysteries and that majesty be conveyed in a way that it is true to reason and science but which creates a narrative that captures the human heart?

If so, I haven't heard it here. Attacking your supposed philosophical opponents doesn't count as advancing your position.

I'm a UU-ish (very liberal wing of the Reformation) Christian. I feel a great sympathy with St. Richardis. She like me was a lover of wildlife-- particularly bears. She allegedly (I realize this is ... mostly myth) had a cub (whom she "brought back to life") and her mother as companions follow her around her whole life after that. She lived in Alsace, apparently, sometime in the 9th century.

Is there any reason I cannot have an icon of her as a friend of God and a pioneer of faith? She's always depicted with a bear cub. I like that. God in the old testament/Hebrew Scriptures is likened to a she-bear protecting her cubs, so I very much like that image.

Martin Luther King, Bonhoeffer, Tillich, Schweitzer, Martin Buber, who and what would you want to add to the canon? Why do you think it would merit adding?

I am a non-Mormon. I am a Unitarian Universalist Christian; I attend a liturgically Christian, historically Universalist church. I will tell you that when I have attempted to read the Book of Mormon, I find it unreadable.

Could anyone with a knowledge of the book point me to some verses that would be meaningful and beautiful to anyone of faith (or maybe no faith)? I haven't found any yet, but I admit I have not made a full and demanding search yet.

No gratuitous nasty comments about Mormons, Joseph Smith (or Unitarians for that matter-- or Christians even).

or is considering abortion "morally wrong" enough? I'm just curious if, as a Christian, I have to believe that women who have abortions, or those that help them come about, be they illegal abortions or legal abortions, have to be locked up or put to death. That seems harsh to me.

That is, "believe in" in the sense of "trust" or "give allegiance to." There's a big difference between the statements "I believe Obama" (I think he's telling the truth) and "I believe in Obama" (I'm throwing my treasure in with his). One can believe God "exists" without that mattering much to that person. Do we have a specific word for indifferent theists?

and then he announces that there are two commandments that sum up all the law and prophets? Does that mean some commandments are more important than others, or some don't count any more since Jesus never mention them, and he's the Author of my faith?