Category: Paths and Traditions

Calling on the Divine

. All life is connected and circular. These trees and I had grown from the same terrestrial body, the same supernatural realm. Nature provided this stillness, this space for consideration. This opportunity for grace. Like prayer, nature provides an opening, a chance to realize there is something beyond this world. If nature is in danger, we are in danger. If there are answers to this threat, they reside within our beliefs.

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The Strange Connection Between Quakerism and Druidism

I spent summers on my grandparents’ farm from the time I was five years old and slaughtered my first chicken. I was curious about everything. Grandmother was Amish and grandfather was Mennonite, and both took silence seriously. My grandfather seldom talked and demonstrated how to do things instead of explaining things. My grandmother would insist I help in the fields and farm. I wasn’t going to be able to ask either of them anything. I had to learn by on my own by reading books written for adults. I also had to listen into the silence in order to try to hear “that of God.”

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The Braided Way

The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.

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