Slow Spirituality
I blogged about the Slow movement a while back. It's not about being slow, or dull, or lazy; it's about choosing your pace – knowing what to do at speed and when to stop and smell the flowers.
This year I came across Ian Stackhouse's book, The Day Is Yours, which is about "Slow Spirituality in a Fast-Moving World". It's a powerful book about discovering a rhythm of life that takes control of what matters while still living in the "real" world.
If you like ideas such as "Urban Monasticism" you'll probably like this too.
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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Out of interest: Where in our chain of ancestors did the soul evolve (or was given) &/or salvation offered – was it a gradual process through the generations or was there a moment where the daughter had what her mother didnt?
I think knowledge about how our ancestors thought, felt and behaved can only be traced back as far as art and artefacts appear. Even then there’s a degree of guesswork involved, although archaeologists always seem absolutely united in their conviction that the drive to worship “god” of some sort is present as far back as we are able to tell.
It’s one of those tantalising things when something new is discovered – it raises just as many questions for interpretation as it answers.
It’s just an ape!!! ;o)
Tony: so are you, me, Maggi and the rest of us!