Red, Green and Brown, The Earth is Where Truth Is or What is It You’ve Traded Your Real Worth For?

Have you ever been so enraptured by someone that when asked who you were, you couldn’t answer for just a second? I hope you’ve been that close to somebody before. When you have, you’ve been in touch with a much more important place.

When you began this journey, he says, there was a tenderness in your heart….Much of the religious journey is getting back to your heart, simply making it where you can feel again. This may not sound religious, but what else has meaning in the world, if your own heart is numb? he asks.

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Disappearing Dan~~Scottish Ditty~~A Drinking Song with Living Lyrics

A Drinking Song, To the tune of “The British Are Coming, Hooray, Hooray…”  Go to the Comments Section and add your own lyrics! Ye just appeared one day, one day Decided ye would stay And stay, and stay… Until yesterday…oh yesterday No one e`en knows what brought ye our way Next Verse: Oh No one knows what scared ye [...]

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Can It Be All About Money and Power?: What Is “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships”?

Finding it deserving of his own personal Q&A, Dr. Robert Jensen,  UT Journalism Professor and author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, will be on hand for Alamo Drafthouse      Lamar’s Third Coast Film Night showing of this significant film, “The Price of Pleasure:  Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships” [52 minute documentary presented by Open [...]

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The Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby Stands Out Even Though He Doesn’t Pastor a “Mega Church” Like Saddleback

While Joan Walsh concerned herself with the merits of our nation’s current Presidential Candidates, I was more stunned by “Pastor Rick Warren” and his apparent lack of credentials, character, integrity, and authenticity, in stark comparison to the Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby, who stands out in any convention of religious leaders, regardless of how “mega” their churches [...]

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Death & Dying: Dangling Priscilla

Have you ever seen an disabled person suspended in mid-air–somewhere between heaven and hell by a HOYA ?  It’s the stuff my nightmares are made of.  I dangle Priscilla, a ninety year old invalid, by day and see nightmarish visions of her by night.  The real nightmare is hers.  She can’t take it anymore…she mumbles over and over [...]

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Finding the Eternal in the Temporal or The Empty Vessel Never Filled

This podcast is his most recent teaching, given live before a mixed audience of Christians, Atheists, Agnostics, Pantheists, Buddhists, Taoists, and persons of just about any religious or anti-religious perspective. Worth bearing in mind, perhaps, is the fact that his audience assembled themselves in a small building, located in Austin’s northern Wells Branch suburb, called St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, where justice advocate and often controversial Dr. Rigby has taught for more than twenty years, for the specific purpose of hearing him [Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby] speak on his chosen topic.

His teachings have brought him oftentimes, harsh criticism from theologians…

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