ITEMS OF INTEREST March 6, 2006 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Eric Shackleton, Harry Black, Tim Townsend

"MANY MAINSTREAM CANADIAN CHURCHES are wrestling with low attendance and filling the pulpits. Yet there is a hunger on the part of many for spiritual fulfillment and a way to make sense of life ....

"The crux of the problem, said [Tom] Harpur [one of Canada's best known writers on spirituality], is that 'people don't really want to be told anymore the same old (thing) if it contradicts what their mind as well as their heart tells them.'

"People 'don't want talk about God—they want God,' said Harpur. They don't want creeds or dogmas—'they want experience'....

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