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Does the Church Really Matter?

Jun 17th, 2009 by admin | 0

How many times have you attended church services, meetings, and events and wondered to yourself why you even there?   This questioning actually has less to do with the Church and more to how we view community.  As we become more isolationist we value the church community less and less.  Back in the day people worked [...]

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Scientific Spirituality?

Jun 13th, 2009 by admin | 1

There is a movement to combine science and religion in an attempt to quantify empirically results of people’s faith.  There has been research on prayer and recovery of patients.  But, these are not truly scientific because they only give interpretations of observed reductional results without any control to the myriad of variables.  It only makes [...]

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The Future of Spirituality

Oct 13th, 2008 by Troy Parson | 1

It is no surprise to any of us that our world is changing at an unprecedented rate.  Technology continues to change how we interact with each other.  Machines are becoming more advanced - almost science fiction.  Globalization is becoming more complex every day.  This is easily seen inour current global economy.  Within our culture, there’s this [...]

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