YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Encountering God by Diana Eck
Essays 391 - 420
as a necessity of life as food, water, and comfort. The people who make no effort to know God cannot understand the world in whic...
the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...
to merge . This would seem to be a level in ones spiritual development, in fact, it would be the final level on earth since Nirvan...
and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...
It appears that the village had a relatively high level of it received compared to the rest of Egypt, possibly in excess of 50% co...
forests and other vegetation; the teeming mass of life suggests that there is more than one god present. (This analysis of course ...
only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...
observation as well noting that this prohibition is a substantive one just as was women being kept out of certain occupations in o...
tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...
long prayer of confession.6 It may be because of Ezras knowledge and profound faith that God called him to serve in a different wa...
finance, for example, God and business are mutually exclusive. How could God be working through business, people might ask. Take a...
Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...
who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who ca...
The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...
on having sex with every bride on her wedding night. It was an imperative belief in the ancient world that for society to exist, t...
faith development. Stage 2 is related to children from three/four to seven/eight when they experience intuitive-projective faith. ...
these characteristics he is able to become a wealthy landowner and politician in the town of Eatonville. In fact, Hurston indicate...
it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...
to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...
of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...
This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...
as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is a vital piece of literature that explores what it takes to be ones own self. A seminal novel, Zo...
Law of Christ. The Israelites believed that the Spirit of God lived in the Tabernacle, which is why it was guarded so carefully. I...
Human nature is to invent explanations for events and occurrences that are intuitively appealing. Example...
or anything else they can think of to explain away the event. After the denial is no longer possible, anger sets in. This stage mi...
in his dysfunctional body and she reads him constantly, also hiring round-the-clock nurses and other readers (Changnon, 1995). W...
This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...
This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...
In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...