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1 day ago · Theological liberalism, both homegrown and imported, generated significant controversy in American congregations and seminaries, and in these controversies we begin to see the emerging division between liberal and evangelical forms of Protestantism, divisions pre-figured in the 18th-century debates around the Great Awakening, and amplified later in debates about Darwinism.
4 days ago · In an extract from her new book, The Future Of The Self, academic Joanna Nadin explores how technology has affected our identities, and predicts further seismic changes for our collective sense of...
1 day ago · Plot See also: List of Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes In 2015, 15 years after a global cataclysm called the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his estranged father Gendo Ikari, who is the director of the special paramilitary force Nerv. Shinji witnesses United Nations forces battling an Angel named Sachiel, one of a race of monstrous beings ...
4 days ago · Wednesday, July 4, 2024. The Bodhisattva Ideal: Five Rare Powers. Roshi Joan Halifax. Creations are numberless, I vow to free them. Delusions are inexhaustible, I vow to transform them. Reality is boundless, I vow to perceive it. The Awakened Way is unsurpassable, I vow to embody it. (The Four Great Vows of the Bodhisattvas)
3 days ago · An event at Gateway Church, an Evangelical megachurch in Texas. In the United States, evangelicalism is a movement among Protestant Christians who believe in the necessity of being born again, emphasize the importance of evangelism, and affirm traditional Protestant teachings on the authority as well as the historicity of the Bible. [1]
5 days ago · The ancient wisdom fell out of fashion in the 1960s and in the “Me Decade” that followed, when our understanding about the pursuit of happiness was transformed from being good to feeling good.
1 day ago · At the same time, Buddhist traditions lay a great deal of emphasis on cultivating virtues such as nonharming, loving kindness and compassion, as part of spiritual practice and merit making. This is seen in gentle treatment of other sentient beings and compassion towards those suffering, with related practices encoded into Buddhist ethical precepts (Kaza Citation 2018 ; Macy Citation 2009 ).
