TheBanyanTree: why I get turned off, and how I turn back on

[Theta Brentnall]

I like that quote, Julie.  Yes, I am the one who considers myself a Zen 
Pagan Methodist, although animist works for me, too.  We got to 
Boardman, OR yesterday, and my church moment was standing on the edge of 
the Columbia River, almost a mile across here, and watching a glorious 
red-gold-purple sunset in a sky with no interruptions from horizon to 
horizon.  And after, a night sky with the Milky Way spilling across a 
field of brighter stars.  As our pastor says, that preaches, sister!

Theta

On 9/13/2010 7:33 AM, Indiglow wrote:
> I so agree with you, Julie!  I think it was another Spooner (Theta, was it you?) who long ago described herself as a Zen-Animist-Methodist, and that stuck in my mind as quite sensible.  For the most part, I'm content with the Methodist church which tends to focus on community and "do unto others" (stewardship) - and for the most part leaves the dogma alone.  But there are times when a flowing river or a good wild wind or a gurgling baby are all I need to feel connected to what I call God.
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> --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Julie Anna Teague<jateague at indiana.edu>  wrote:
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> I have gone to some church or other most of my life, albeit with
> years-long lapses thrown in here and there.  I suppose you'd say I have
> always been a spiritual-minded person, a truth seeker.  "Keep the
> company of those who seek the truth--run from those who have found it."
> So says Václav Havel, and I have to say I agree.