Volume 3 Issue 1

The hour is late, and the most important day in Christendom is already following the dawn around the globe. Growing in Christ is both literally and figuratively a work in progress and on this Easter 2004 it enters the third year of experimenting with a cyber approach to theological formation and development. The 2,985 visits to the site bespeak of its limited appeal, but the quest continues for a meaningful way to involve interested souls in a meaningful dialogue about faith, spirituality and religion. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
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Having estranged myself from the institutionalized church and organized religion, I will experience Easter by taking my Gospel of Thomas into Red Rock Canyon to ponder the Truth contained therein in solitude and quiet. No theatrics. No sensationalism. Just the words of Jesus transmitted across language, culture and time as accurately as they can be. If there be Truth in those words, which I truly believe there is, I plan to encounter the resurrected Christ through them just as surely as did those early witnesses who heard them firsthand.
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There are new “first memories” posted on the Bulletin Board as well as a powerful essay by Joe Klein. I continue to hope that some of the meaningful thoughts that are shared with me personally will find their way onto the Bulletin Board. There is little question but what we are living in a time when the open and honest exchange of moral, spiritual and theological ideas and values is no longer an academic exercise but the very foundation upon which any semblance of a future as we know it will be built.
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Until next week…….Shalom!