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Category: Spirituality

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms
Books

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms

Posted on 6 December 201530 January 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…

Hospital Chaplains too Christian for Nones?
Death and Dying

Hospital Chaplains too Christian for Nones?

Posted on 31 August 20157 February 2018 by admin

She sat beside the bed, tears brimming. ‘Mum’s dying.’ ‘Yes.’ We sat in silence for a bit. ‘I’ve lost my faith.’ ‘Uh huh.’ ‘When my friend died.’ ‘Mm.’ We held hands and Mum’s too, wondering in our own ways, about…

Living with my desk skull
Faith

Living with my desk skull

Posted on 31 August 201530 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Amongst the debris on my desk sits a small skull. It’s just big enough to remind me that I’m not long for this world. No, I don’t have a diagnosis that may make you feel awkward, other than being terminally…

Anna the void and her imprint
God

Anna the void and her imprint

Posted on 9 August 20154 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

Crying into my muesli was familiar territory in the days when hormones were more rampant, usually activated by the loss of some love or a response to the all-encompassing despair that used to dog my footsteps. The loves are gone…

Shared vulnerability: the key to soulful & just end of life choices
Bodies

Shared vulnerability: the key to soulful & just end of life choices

Posted on 19 June 201518 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

I used to love the story of Little Red Riding Hood. There was something deliciously appealing about getting dressed up in an elegant red cape and sauntering off into the world alone. Grandma turning into the wolf didn’t bother me,…

Stories crucial to midwifing death
Compassion

Stories crucial to midwifing death

Posted on 13 July 201430 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Midwifing death is as important to the dying process as pain relief. For me, it’s walking slowly beside another person as they disengage from their dwindling life force and listening intently to the stories of their life. Stories can tumble…

Supping Sam Hunt Sober
Art

Supping Sam Hunt Sober

Posted on 14 June 201430 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Last time I saw Sam Hunt perform I was drunk in a pub in Wellington. We all were, him too most likely. It was what you did at those gigs where poetry and plonk were like riding a bicycle for…

Dirty laundry leads to Easter grave turning
Bodies

Dirty laundry leads to Easter grave turning

Posted on 20 April 201430 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

My Mum always said we shouldn’t wash our dirty linen in public. Secrets, lies, and doubts about anything, particularly the godstuff, were for the privacy of our own kitchen and closed down before they got too heretical. What mattered was…

Crumbling Christianity good news for Kiwis
Christmas

Crumbling Christianity good news for Kiwis

Posted on 28 December 201330 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Joy to the world, the angels at Statistics New Zealand are singing a new song . Anglicans and Protestants are on the eve of destruction. We’ve got about 20 years left. By 2054, (my 100th birthday!) Christianity, except for Roman Catholicism, will probably not…

Rape culture in need of a spirituality that grows us
Bodies

Rape culture in need of a spirituality that grows us

Posted on 8 December 201330 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

New Zealand’s ‘rape culture’ is in the news after a group of teenage boys allegedly had sex with intoxicated underage girls and then bragged about it on Facebook. The report triggered memories of my own. As a young mum, I…

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