Body, Heart, Spirit: Integrative Health

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Body, Heart, Spirit: Integrative Health will be a presentation and conversation about: Integrative health; the relationship between health, the human experience and the environment The encouragement of participants, as medical patients, to make integrative and proactive choices that promote fullness of health and well-being in body and spirit The balance between traditional and complementary alternative modes of medical treatment Speaker David Rakel, M.D. is professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UW-Madison, founder of the Integrative Health Program, recipient of the Gold Foundation’s Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award (the school’s highest honor for …

The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith

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What does it mean that Holy Wisdom Monastery is an ecumenical Christian monastery? What is the essence of Christianity that holds all Christians together in faith? In this six session course, last offered at Holy Wisdom in 2015, we will use Marcus Borg’s book, The Heart of Christianity, to explore that question. By examining the “emerging paradigm” Borg emphasizes the transformational aspect of Christianity that is about loving God and loving what God loves. Borg consistently aligns the emerging paradigm with God, Jesus, the Bible, tradition, and religious practice, which constitute the heart of a Christianity that can be embraced …

The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith

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What does it mean that Holy Wisdom Monastery is an ecumenical Christian monastery? What is the essence of Christianity that holds all Christians together in faith? In this six session course, last offered at Holy Wisdom in 2015, we will use Marcus Borg’s book, The Heart of Christianity, to explore that question. By examining the “emerging paradigm” Borg emphasizes the transformational aspect of Christianity that is about loving God and loving what God loves. Borg consistently aligns the emerging paradigm with God, Jesus, the Bible, tradition, and religious practice, which constitute the heart of a Christianity that can be embraced …

The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith

Car McGinley Leave a Comment

What does it mean that Holy Wisdom Monastery is an ecumenical Christian monastery? What is the essence of Christianity that holds all Christians together in faith? In this six session course, last offered at Holy Wisdom in 2015, we will use Marcus Borg’s book, The Heart of Christianity, to explore that question. By examining the “emerging paradigm” Borg emphasizes the transformational aspect of Christianity that is about loving God and loving what God loves. Borg consistently aligns the emerging paradigm with God, Jesus, the Bible, tradition, and religious practice, which constitute the heart of a Christianity that can be embraced …