Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) and Alan Watts (1915-1973) are often seen as two of the more important Western religious thinkers who called the frenetic West back to a deeper and more contemplative way of being. Both men emerged from the Christian Tradition, both men...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
"I concentrated on the Sermon on the Mount. It was startling to me that I could not recall a sermon ever preached on this manifesto of Christ’s new social order in my church when I was growing up. I vaguely remembered some talk about the Sermon on the Mount not...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
There are many ways to interpret and present the Christian Tradition, but, sadly so, two traditions have come to dominate the discussion. It will be the burden of this essay to point out that such simplistic readings of the Christian Tradition distorts the reality of...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
People have understood and defined the Christian Prophetic Tradition in many ways during the history of the Church. In short, several sub-traditions have developed within the much larger and more epic Christian Prophetic Tradition, each with its own unique tendencies,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
DESOLATION PEAK: LOOKING NORTH LOOKING 1 On the Road Those afternoons, those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the Alpine grass, hundreds of miles of snow-covered rock all around, looming Mount Hozomeen on my north,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“What the world needs from the church is not busy people but deep people.”—Richard Foster “Take away the life lie of the average person, and you take away their happiness.”—Henrik Ibsen There has been a growing interest, in the last few decades, in the contemplative...
