by Doug Hammack | Apr 29, 2012 | Message Audio, The Art of Humility
We continue our introduction to the ancient practice of confession; rooted in the ancient virtue of humility. (Next week we’ll get to the practical how-to’s.) We human beings are in a protracted struggle with existential shame, and before we even get to...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 22, 2012 | Message Audio, The Art of Humility
For those present on Sunday, I didn’t use the word “confession” until the last few sentences of the lesson. We have such a limited, skewed, and religiously ritualized idea of what it means, I wanted to tell a story first. I told the community about...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 8, 2012 | Easter, Message Audio
Today, we celebrate this seminal day in our tradition. As always, we take some dimension of our Story, and rehearse it together. Today, we talk about what our early ancestors; those first to experience live-beyond-life. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 1, 2012 | A God Big Enough Not to Bore Us, Message Audio, The Art of Humility
We conclude this application of the ancient virtue of humility by thinking about God in a way that has less potential to bore us. As we’ve said, as soon as we reduce the un-reducible God to an image in our minds, we inevitably create a God that is not worthy of...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 25, 2012 | A God Big Enough Not to Bore Us, Message Audio, The Art of Humility
Continuing from last week… Humility is a precursor to awe and wonder which in turn, awaken us to a God too big to be reduced into a mental construct. This, it turns out, is a recipe for a religion that inspires us, surprises us, and draws us into the Way, Truth,...
