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26 Dec 2008

HeadlineThe "God Experience"… Today's commentary from Dick Westley is great stuff for reflection over the holiday period. He's looking at "the God experience" through the lens of contemporary science and contemporary theology. Is our experience of God merely some illusion, or delusion — or is it grounded in some reality? This is fascinating terrority. You'll even find the links behind many of the photographs used to illustrate the commentary take you off to further articles worth reading. Sadly this is the last commentary from Dick from the series of workshops he ran in Chicago last October. [more]

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19 Dec 2008

HeadlineMay the Holy Spirit be with you! Dick Westley argues today: "Clearly, human love is what matters, there can be no true spirituality without it. A moment's reflection on our lives reveals to us that the way the Holy Spirit works in our lives is precisely through "human" love. Through human love the Spirit breaks the strangle-hold of individualism on our lives and links us to one another. ... By linking us all together, Spirit ultimately links us to God. It is through the work of Spirit in our lives that our isolation ends and we become joined to one another and subsequently to God. That is the central message of Catholicism/Christianity." [more]

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12 Dec 2008

HeadlineTake some of the treasures with you! It's a cheeky headline for this cheeky commentary from Dick Westley It's the second from a series of workshops he conducted in Chicago in October which looks both at the decline of Christianity but with a view to re-invigorating our spirituality. His workshop series was entitled: "Live Life as it Comes!" [more]

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05 Dec 2008

HeadlineReinvigorating Christian spirituality... Dick Westley is a now retired teacher of philosophy from Loyola University, Chicago. Over the next four Fridays we are going to publish the papers from a provocative workshop he conducted in Chicago in October which, perhaps surprisingly, we got to hear about via one of our Australian readers. This is a provocative series which looks both at the decline of Christianity but with a view to re-invigorating our spirituality. His workshop series was entitled: "Live Life as it Comes!" [more]

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