As shared at Lennoxville United Church – June 18, 2023 May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to thee, Lord. Amen. Today’s reading from the 18th chapter of Genesis is both strange and powerful. Strange – because it is one of those places in the Hebrew Scriptures that bears witness to the presence of other pre-monotheistic religious traditions in the stories that constitute the foundation of our Judeo-Christian narrative. I had a colleague in the Religion...
Category: Deep Spirituality
In his book La philosophie du Petit Prince (ou le retour à l'essentiel), Paul Meunier, philosopher and theologian, takes us on a long meditation on this well-known tale, highlighting the many evangelical attitudes that Saint-Exupéry wanted to promote. Let us first recall that everything this author wrote after 1935 was marked by the experience he had had in the Sahara desert when his plane crashed there; a defining experience of the same kind as that recounted by EE Schmitt in his work, La...
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