Spirituality

“Decades of data gathered in a single study released last fall shows that a relationship with God improves mental health and well-being, the study’s creators said Wednesday during the fourth annual International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C.” - Deseret News

“belief in spirits or a spiritual realm beyond this world is widespread, even among those who don’t consider themselves religious.” - Pew

Related – Study: Most Americans are spiritual but a growing number say they are not religious - RNS

“Wilson is a member of the Baha’i faith, a religion introduced in the 19th century by Baháʼu’lláh… who claimed to receive a new revelation that, roughly speaking, placed him in the genealogy of ‘Manifestations of God’ stretching back to Abraham and including Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Muhammad.” - CToday

“ ‘Pray for Damar Hamlin’ became a national exhortation. It was everywhere. The universal urge and call to prayer keenly revealed how embedded man’s spiritual nature is within him, despite what our culture says and does to try to remove the divine from our horizon.” - World

“When God is rejected or considered irrelevant there is nothing the heart of man won’t use to try and fill that sense of emptiness. This doesn’t have to be in ways as sensational as mansions or sex or hedge funds; think of the deification of the environment or ‘science,’ or the endless advertising for the latest gadget or the perfect diet, or…” - Acton

“Visitors are welcomed by quotations from French artist Lucile Olympe Haut’s ‘Cyberwitches Manifesto,’ which urges readers to, among other things, ‘use smartphones and tarot cards to connect to spirits’ and ‘manufacture D.I.Y. devices to listen to invisible worlds.’” - Breakpoint

“Phelps is a board member of the Nashville Sunday Assembly, a congregation of nonbelievers that has faith in the power of community. The group gathers monthly to sing together, give testimonies and even hear a secular version of a sermon.” - RNS

“Divination arises from a desire to know the future or to receive guidance about how to live one’s life from some power or force or principle other than God.” - Roger Olson

“…when she was 16, said Cargle, ‘I got comfortable with myself, Catholicism and spirituality. … I was no longer afraid to touch a tarot deck.’ Cargle, who now identifies as spiritual but not religious, sees tarot as a tool.” - RNS

Outthinking the World for Christ- an outline by Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary at his blog, The Constructive Curmudgeon