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Category: Books

Full immerson: Jungian slow release from the Christian ties that bind
Books

Full immerson: Jungian slow release from the Christian ties that bind

Posted on July 22, 2018July 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

A workshop at Common Ground Conference Progressive Christianity Aotearoa Saturday 8th September 2018 Abstract Blogging about spirituality drew sharp criticism from church authorities who determined my theology ‘not Christian’. I responded by destroying my website, home to myriad articles that…

Reimagining the Christian myth in Palmerston North
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Reimagining the Christian myth in Palmerston North

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

The Illness The We Are: A Jungian Critique of Christianity by John P. Dourley A creative reading group for explorers Dates and times Thursday evenings, 7-8.30pm. 4, 11, 18, 25 Oct & 1, 8 November 2018. Venue A café in…

Reimagining the Christian myth: a tribute to John P. Dourley
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Reimagining the Christian myth: a tribute to John P. Dourley

Posted on July 15, 2018July 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

When I was at theological college I was fascinated by how it was perfectly acceptable to see the first chapters of Genesis as mythology but not necessarily the Gospel of Mark, an action-packed narrative that forms the bare bones of…

Divine dance partners: theology, compassion and interconnectedness in health
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Divine dance partners: theology, compassion and interconnectedness in health

Posted on January 8, 2017January 30, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Reading Divine Dance: the Trinity and Your Transformation reconnected me with the insightful 20th century Trinity of The Matrix movie when she announced to the chosen, but reluctant Neo that ‘it’s the question driving us’. Like, everyone, he faced the…

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms
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Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms

Posted on December 6, 2015January 30, 2018 by Sande Ramage

I didn’t expect to find myself humming the old hymn Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise at the launch of Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms. But, as I listened to Rohana Ulluwishewa talk about our inner and outer realities…

Anzac Day Amnesia
ANZAC

Anzac Day Amnesia

Posted on April 28, 2012February 11, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Archibald Baxter is a hero to me.  I remember him on every Anzac Day. It’s my way of saying that his story, marked by brutality and torture after he refused to fight in World War I, is a vital missing…

Festivals transcend belief
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Festivals transcend belief

Posted on March 31, 2012February 6, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Emilie Selden has an appealing naïvety. She’s educated in the art and philosophy of alchemy but has no clue about more mundane matters like the predatory bloke who’s after her fortune. She intrigued me when I met her on the…

  • We are overcome with desire, struggling with the congenital all-embracing ache that lies at the centre of human experience, the ultimate force that drives everything else. Ronald Rolheiser in Seeking Spirituality
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