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Mind-Expanding, Hope-Giving Event
I
attended the
event, June 18-20, called "Our Cosmic Sacred Story" with
Diarmuid O’Murchu, an Irish Roman Catholic with a
wonderful brogue, an amazing mind and a gentle spirit.
O’Murchu, the
author of books such as "Quantum Theology", "Evolutionary
Faith", and "Catching Up with Jesus", brings a wealth of
scientific knowledge, as well as a grasp of humanity’s spiritual
quest down through the ages, to the questions that many of us
are wrestling with these days: Whose "truth" can one trust? Does
science rob the human story of meaning or enhance that meaning?
Do human beings hold a unique place in the scheme of things or
are we simply one part of the great drama of life on this
planet? Where does the Jesus story fit into the wide array of
religious beliefs? Is he in any way unique, even "divine", or is
he a "prototype" of what it means to be truly human?
O’Murchu engages
one in a positive, mind-expanding and hope-giving exploration of
such questions and so I feel that this was the best event I’ve
been to at the Centre in a long time.
~ Bill Wall |