World Interfaith Harmony Week : Human existence, Religions, and the Digital World --- Professor Peter Horsfield

Women and ministry : women in professional ministry. The story of Marilyn Sewell

From the web-site of Marilyn Sewell

Raw Faith Film

Watch the Raw Faith film trailer…

Raw Faith is an intimate and revealing documentary that follows two years in the private life of Marilyn Sewell, an outspoken and socially progressive Unitarian minister who has re-energized her Portland, Oregon community.

While serving a community that relies on her for wisdom and advice (on both personal and ethical issues), Marilyn struggles quietly with decisions about her own future. As she seeks to reconcile the commitments of her profession with a longing for intimacy and love, childhood memories of mental illness and alcoholism come back to the surface — and must be dealt with before she can move forward.

As Marilyn’s life unfolds in front of the camera (in real time), she shares her journey with remarkable candor, humor and increasing wisdom, ultimately leading her to an unexpected revelation of faith and love in all of its guises.

Awards

• Best Feature Award at the 3rd Annual 2010 Columbia Gorge International Film Festival.
• Winner of the Nashville Public Television 2010 Human Spirit Award at the Nashville Film Festival.Watch an interview from the 2010 Nashville Film Festival…
• Named one of the The Most Spiritually Literature Films of 2011 by Spirituality & Practice.

Learn more about this award-winning film:

• Love Will Remain — Listen to the film’s original theme song written and performed by Sheryl Crow
• Raw Faith Facebook page
• Raw Faith Twitter

Pilgrimage: 25 years of the Christus Rex Pilgrimage from #Ballarat to #Bendigo

Apologies from the Editor of Beside The Creek. 

 I have never heard of this practice until to-day.

You can read more about it below.

The material comes from here.

The Christus Rex Pilgrimage is a 3 day walk from Ballarat to Bendigo,covering over 90 kilometres. This route takes us from one great cathedral – St. Patricks, Ballarat – to another splendid cathedral – Sacred Heart, Bendigo. Over the 3 days we walk through the picturesque and serene countryside and forests of Victoria, through the towns of Creswick, Smeaton, Newstead and Lockwood. Along the route we engage in prayers and song – rosaries, litanies, hymns and medieval pilgrim songs that unite all in fellowship. Daily Mass in the extraordinary form (1962) is celebrated every day in local churches, except on the Saturday where Solemn Mass is celebrated in the woodlands of Campbelltown at a woodlands site; sacred polyphony and Gregorian chant are a part of each Mass. There are many opportunities for confession and spiritual guidance from the priests who join us on the pilgrimage.

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The passing years have seen the pilgrimage attract Catholics from all over Australia of all ages, bringing them together to walk the route in honour of Christ the King and showing forth the communal body of the Catholic Church. The pilgrimage numbers have increased every year and have reached 450 in the past.

Christus Rex Society Inc. 

is run by a committee of members 

who organise the Pilgrimage every year,

from different regions around Australia.

How the interfaith movement engenders mutual understanding and appreciation ....

Published on 24 Apr 2015

Dr. Brian Birch discusses how the Interfaith Movement can help address today's critical issues, and how interfaith dialogue lends itself to strengthening one's respective religious tradition, to discovering shared values and beliefs, and to gaining greater mutual understanding.

From The Editor of Beside The Creek,

interfaith understanding and appreciation

is a work of peace.

Currently the world is a mess of wars and conflicts -

human activities which will not bear good or useful fruit.

Understanding a broader humanity and what makes it tick

is not only interesting and fun,

it helps us to understanding each other's place in the world

and the contribution that each of us make to human culture.