Creative Life: Spirituality

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• Asheville Jewish Community Center - www.jcc-asheville.org/
     The Asheville Jewish community center will provide opportunities for everyone in Western North Carolina to connect to Jewish life and culture.


• Bishop Gene Robinson's Comments - www.inchatatime.blogspot.com/2007/10/open-letter-to-lgbt-community-from.html
     These are Bishop Gene Robinson's remarks following the Episcopal House of Bishops meetings in New Orleans and its response to the Anglican Communion


• Campaign for Real Beauty - www.campaignforrealbeauty.ca
     We developed the Dove Self-Esteem Fund to make real change in the way women and young girls perceive and embrace beauty. We want to help free ourselves and the next generation from beauty stereotypes.


• Jubilee! Community - www.jubileecommunity.org/index.htm
      Jubilee! is a vital and creative community of faith that welcomes all people. We offer an inclusive, joyful, loving, and supportive environment for all those who choose to join us. At our Sunday Celebrations we express our faith through music, dance, poetry, evocative messages, and fellowship at our spiritual home on Wall Street in downtown Asheville, NC. And we also express it by sharing ourselves and our resources with other men, women, and children and with other organizations that serve our fellow humans, other living entities, and the Earth itself.


• Moral Majority fudges its Numbers - www.motherjones.com/arts/feature/2008/05/the-myth-of-the-moral-majority.html
     Can you believe it? Not only does the Religious Right publish membership numbers grossly over-exaggerating reality - but they know it! It looks like Evangelical Christianity isn't nearly as large as some of its political operatives like to claim.


• Native American Spirituality - www.warren-wilson.edu/~religion/newifo/religions/paganism/index/native/essay.shtml
     An essay by Terra Hanks


• Retreatfinder.com Southeast Retreats - www.retreatfinder.com/Directory/directory_location.asp?location=US%20-%20Southeast
     These centers offer accommodations for personal retreats. These centers work similar to hotels in that you simply call up and request a retreat for a time that works for you. Most of the retreats are individual retreats that simply offer you space to take time for your own practices, whether it be meditation, reading, contemplation, or yoga.


• Speaking of Faith - speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/index.shtml
     Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.


• The Jerusalem Center for Advanced Jewish Study for Women - www.yoatzot.org/about.php
     www.yoatzot.org/about.php


• Women (Catholic) Priests? - www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/us/11catholic.html
     This is the article in the NY Times on the activities of Roman Catholic Womenpriests.