”There is one thing stronger, than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo I went to the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Hobart last week and found it stimulating. I was able to share something and it seemed well...
”Thou hast made us for thy self O God, and our hearts are ever restless until they find their rest in Thee.” Augustine. The setting : Global restlessness a sign of hope. The self satisfied ego has been the main blockage to authentic spiritual transformation and...
The great paradox of spiritual awakenings. In the world today there is evidence of ‘a kicking in the womb.’ There are early signs of enough spiritual life and concern in ordinary people to trigger a global spiritual movement. That is, if it can find a voice, a...
Towards the end of his life historian Arnold Toynbee said some remarkable and some would say prescient things. He believed that religion and spirituality give civilization its vitality, but that there can be bad religion that sucks the life out of civilization. He...
The word is out, we are about to lose the spiritual imperative in school chaplaincy. At the very time we have a steep decline in the mental health of adolescents and a steep rise in adolescent suicide, are we about to remove what remains of the spiritual dimension of...
