Universal Life Intertribal

It doesn't take long.

Generative AI Has Ushered In the Next Phase of Digital Spirituality From the astrology software of the 1970s to the Co-Star app, spirituality has proliferated online. Now, large language models can find overlooked ways to connect with a higher plane.

An interesting watch. Level heads.

Pastors respond after Trump says Christianity is under attack | CNN Former President Donald Trump is stoking fears that Christianity is under attack, a theme many Christian nationalists believe is true. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan reports from Wisconsin where the movement has united three pastors to combat what they say is a threat.

At about 157 feet that will be a big Buddha in a small town! Comparable to some other world landmarks.

A small Spanish city’s bid to build Europe’s biggest Buddha (RNS) — The 6,000-ton white jade Buddha statue will overlook a sprawling group of temples and monasteries just kilometers from the city center. But suspicions of the project abound.

What is the right word for this type of thing?
https://apnews.com/article/judge-religious-liberty-training-southwest-airlines-2a3d963671446da26f53bdc511bca58f

Shared one of the paintings on another page.

Christopher Ulrich: The Reckoning at La Luz de Jesus Gallery The Christ Chronocrator, Series III: The Reckoning is currently on display at Billy Shire’s La Luz de Jesus in Hollywood. So, while you are there buying unique tchotchkes to fill up hipster stockin…

Your actions reveal you.

Warehousing doesn't work.

Boarding school ignored teen’s sickness complaints before she died, ex-staff say Taylor Goodridge, 17, died at Utah’s Diamond Ranch Academy in December. Her parents are calling for the program to be shut down.

We are the hardest on ourselves.

People will make those pronouncements either way.

On this date in 1939, novelist and poet Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Canada. As a youngster, she spent many months of each year in the wilderness with her parents, due to her father's job as a forest entomologist. Atwood, fittingly, was descended from Mary Webster, accused of witchcraft in Salem, Mass., and sentenced to be hanged in 1685 but allowed to live after the rope broke. Atwood made her ancestor the subject of her poem "Half-Hanged Mary."

Atwood earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1961, her M.A. from Radcliffe College and attended Harvard for two years of postgraduate study. She held a variety of positions at various colleges and has been published in 14 volumes of poetry, including Margaret Atwood Poems (1965-1975), published in 1991.

Her novels include Edible Woman (1969), Surfacing (1972), Lady Oracle (1976), Life Before Man (1979), Bodily Harm (1981), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), the first novel in a series that also includes The Year of The Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013), which would collectively come to be known as the MaddAddam Trilogy.

The Handmaid's Tale, about a theocratic takeover of the United States, inspired the 1990 movie adapted by Harold Pinter. Atwood published Hag-Seed, a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," in 2016. Her 2019 novel The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, was a Booker Prize finalist.

She has called herself an agnostic: "A doctrinaire agnostic is different from someone who doesn't know what they believe. A doctrinaire agnostic believes quite passionately that there are certain things that you cannot know, and therefore ought not to make pronouncements about. In other words, the only things you can call knowledge are things that can be scientifically tested." (Quoted in Humanism as the Next Step by Lloyd and Mary Morain, 1954.)

She was named Canadian Humanist of the Year in 1987 and the American Humanist Association's 1987 Humanist of the Year. She married American writer Jim Polk in 1968. They divorced in 1973 and she formed a relationship with novelist Graeme Gibson. They moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976.

Source: https://ffrf.org/news/day/18/11/freethought/ -atwood

"We can perhaps be forgiven for rubbing our eyes in disbelief when, after a quick Google search, we discover Pat Sajak chairs the board of trustees at Hillsdale. Does that mean promotional consideration of Christian nationalism is provided by “Wheel of Fortune”? Let the viewer decide."
https://religionnews.com/2022/10/20/nashvilles-entangled-prayer-trade-is-a-warning-to-the-rest-of-the-country/

Nashville's entangled 'Prayer Trade' is a warning to the rest of the country (RNS) — 'God,' we might say, is big business and big politics, too, in Nashville.

Shame. Where do we get it?

https://religionnews.com/2022/09/28/shanda-letty-cottin-pogrebin/

The Jewish word that no one uses anymore A word that comes straight out of the Jewish moral vocabulary list. Sometimes, it is about our own families.

Be yourself.
People don't have to like you,
And you don't have to care.

Some things remain the same.

https://religionnews.com/2022/09/20/for-the-lockdown-generation-prayer-is-merely-code-for-inaction/

For the lockdown generation, prayer is merely code for inaction (RNS) — Gun violence is in the air Americans breathe, and like air, I knew Texas’ response to what happened in Uvalde would be neither solid nor substantial.

2001?

https://news.sky.com/story/receding-water-levels-of-yangtze-in-china-reveal-three-buddhist-statues-as-heatwave-continues-12679031

Receding water levels of Yangtze in China reveal three Buddhist statues as heatwave continues Forecasters have warned the sweltering conditions could last well into September amid fears of a "grave situation" in the Sichuan province over the loss of water to the hydropower system.

And here you've been sitting quietly in the corner...laughing.

Be proud of your progress.

Take care of yourself.

Make yourself a priority once in a while.
It's not selfish,
It's necessary.

A mean person may come from a life less fortunate than yours.

Learn to let things roll off you, don't take things personally and realize that we're not the center of anybody else's world. There are always many other reasons for why someone attacks us in a mean way.

https://religionnews.com/2022/04/05/afghan-evacuees-mark-first-us-ramadan-with-gratitude-agony/

Afghan evacuees mark first US Ramadan with gratitude, agony LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (AP) — As they adjust to their new communities, Afghan families are celebrating Ramadan with gratitude for their safety. Yet there's also the agony of being away from loved ones who they fear are in danger under Taliban leadership.

Just be a good person,
Love who you can,
Help where you can,
Give what you can.

"The physical landscape of Ukraine isn’t the only battle space Russian invaders hope to dominate. For the past decade, the two countries have fought another battle — not over territory but the religious orientation of Ukraine. And if Russia occupies the country, religious freedom will be one of the many casualties."

https://religionnews.com/2022/02/24/putin-is-after-more-than-land-he-wants-the-religious-soul-of-ukraine/

Putin is after more than land — he wants the religious soul of Ukraine (RNS) — Make no mistake, Putin is seeking full capitulation from Ukraine — both physical and spiritual.

"Thousands, if not millions, of American Jews can trace their ancestors back to Ukraine and feel a special connection to the place, even as it also evokes a complicated history of persecution. Between 1.2 million and 1.6 million Jews were killed in Ukraine during the Holocaust."

https://religionnews.com/2022/03/12/us-jews-furiously-raise-money-send-delegations-to-help-ukraine/

US Jews furiously raise money, send delegations to help Ukraine (RNS) — Thousands, if not millions, of American Jews can trace their ancestors back to Ukraine and feel a special connection to the place, even if it brings up a complicated past.

Things have a way of working themselves out.
Be patient.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/opinions/tennessee-adoption-struggle-religious-freedom-graves-fitzsimmons-siddiqi/index.html

Opinion: A Tennessee couple's struggle to adopt shows religious freedom is under siege in America Right-wing Christians don't get to create a parallel legal system that conforms to their conservative theology. There should be one set of laws that applies to all of us and protects the rights and safety of all Americans to freely practice their faith, write Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons and Maggie Si...