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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The Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby Stands Out Even Though He Doesn’t Pastor a “Mega Church” Like Saddleback
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Another Rigby Podcast: As Great As We Are America…God Likes Other People Too!
Posted in Christianity, Christianity and Taoism, Commentary, Dr. Jim Rigby, Eastern, Lessons for Living, Mystery, Nature Religion, Non-Mainstream Religion, Non-Mainstream Theology, Pantheism, Podcast, Religion, Spiritual Renewal, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Taoism, Taoism and Christianity, Theology, Western, tagged Buddhism, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Podcast, Merge Taoist and Christian Teachings, Metaphors, Austin TX, Dr. James Rigby, Eastern Taoism, Western Christianity, Unravel Mysteries, Storytelling, images, symbols of the ages, Surrender, Insights, Wisdom Teachings, A spoon never tastes the soup, jrigby0000@aol.com, Carol Creel on Surrender, Think about God in non-theistic ways, Go Deeper, Think of life and nature as also being sacred, Received an email, Email from someone having just started a twelve-step pr, I don't see God with flesh-on, A God in charge of granting wishes, What does it mean to surrender to Western models of God, God doesn't usually get a word in, It's a mistake to surrender responsibility for life, No matter how strong you are nature is stronger, Water is good because it takes the lowest place, A little thing called reality that we're trying to harm, The rich the beautiful the powerful want the field want, The stone rejected becomes the most important stone, Symbol of Baptism, Living Water, Flowing Water, River of Life, Baptized into the River of Life, Symbols and Rituals are ways of, Your Body Isn't Logical, The Whole Universe is Yours and Mine, To Live in the Wholeness You Have to Give Up Those Part, The wick as the material world, The flame as life, The light as consciousness, Matter gets into a chain reaction that we call life, Einstein, Einstein went place physicists had not gone yet, Mathematical Truths must be written in us, Religion is intended to unite those parts of yourselves, If you come to your real life you will know how to live, Combustion we call Life, Terrified to be Emptied, There is no life if the candle blows itself out so it c, It is the burning, Missing the Point, At the end of it I'm sorry we die, That's our home, Repentance or Renunciation, You cannot make a personal possession out of the basic, Renunciation of the temptation to possess basic goodnes, We repent of whatever separates us from others, The last of his series, The I Am Sayings Where Jesus Teaches on Behalf of That, Like the sugar in the juice of the sugar cane, I adore myself, I have taken form but I am still One, Misery of the Peasants Doesn't Matter, When you walk out of here and see the Stranger as Famil, It Doesn't Take Much To Throw It All Off, One Cancer Cell is A Problem, He' more like the Columbo of minister, Not Selling Anythin, Doing the work of Justice, On this planet for Justice and Truth, Not after our pocketbooks, Not after fame and wealth, He's real, he's funny, everytime he speaks, he articulates the ineffable, He's my pastor, Even though we live about 2000 miles apart, Thanks to podcasts, No matter where we are, We are able to listen, http://ashtoraspeaks.wordpress.com on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last in Dr. Rigby’s series of coupling the writings of Eastern Taoism together with the texts of Western Christianity, managing to unravel the mysteries of life in under twenty minutes.
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