The Challenge of Fundamentalism by Rabia Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon Wherever we travel we find concern about fundamentalism. Europeans are worried about violent outbreaks among immigrants in their home countries and the apparent failure of their attempts at multi-culturalism. Arabs try to assure us that fundamentalism is not the heart of Islam. Our liberal […]
Archive for the ‘Spirit in Action Essays’ Category
Showing Up: Notes on Action in the World
January 2nd, 2004
SHOWING UP: Notes on Action in the World Living a spiritual life has always included for me both an intensely inward, contemplative practice of liberation from my identifications and judgments, as well as the challenging aspect of outward service dedicated to justice in the world. No matter how much my own life over the years […]
Crossing Borders
January 2nd, 2004
CROSSING BORDERS . When the pilgrim’s road comes to an end and her goal is reached, she finds she has traveled only from herself to herself, and that the God whom she reached was all the while in her, around her, with her, and beside her. –Annonymous After these years of pilgrimage we are truly […]
Journal Reflections
January 23rd, 1998
Journal Reflections from the Thai-Burmese Border By Elias Amidon Early morning light breaks through the leaves of the jungle around me. I have just finished my prayers, troubled ones, and turn this page to try to make sense of what I am feeling. The flat fronds of the wild banana trees sway and bow to […]
