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Revisioning Experience in the Spiritual Tricycle

Revisioning Experience in the Spiritual Tricycle

by Shirin McArthur | May 24, 2021 | Christianity, Spiritual Life

Recently I listened to Richard Rohr talk in a webinar about the three wheels of the spiritual “tricycle”: Experience, Scripture, and Tradition (which he discusses in his book The Universal Christ). He spoke of how, historically, Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches...
Where Do You Place Your Faith?

Where Do You Place Your Faith?

by Shirin McArthur | Mar 22, 2021 | Christianity, Society and Culture, Spiritual Life

I was listening recently to a brief video interview of the composer Arvo Pärt. He spoke of how music is an understanding, empathetic friend, forgiving and of comfort. Music offers liberation and flight. He’s woven his life around music until it infuses his very being....
Waiting with the Unknown

Waiting with the Unknown

by Shirin McArthur | Dec 21, 2020 | Christianity, Conscious Living, Spiritual Life

I imagine you’ve had this experience: You make a plan and then watch it fall apart. That happened to me this week. I had my Advent blog series all planned out. I started with this idea of writing about Jesus’ challenging messages, and posted for two weeks on that....
Being Temporal Containers of Eternal Love

Being Temporal Containers of Eternal Love

by Shirin McArthur | Jul 27, 2020 | Christianity, Conscious Living

It’s been a long time since I’ve received the Eucharist. Episcopal churches in Arizona shut down to in-person worship in mid-March, and it looks like we are quite a ways away from being able to worship in person together again. There’s a plan, of course, for when we...
Terror All Around

Terror All Around

by Shirin McArthur | Mar 9, 2020 | Society and Culture, Spiritual Life, Writing Life

It’s difficult to avoid the fearmongering about the coronavirus these days. Both traditional and social media are saturated with reports, warnings, guidance, and commentary. Over the past week, I’ve had conversations and come across a number of articles about how to...
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