A Spirituality of Eating | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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We more readily link spirituality and fasting as a spiritual practice that has a long history in the Christian tradition. But eating is not simply intrinsic to life, it is also an important dimension of the life of faith, community, and that of witness and service. This is so because spirituality is not a part of life, but has to ...
Beyond Structures | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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A spirituality of personalism. In the 20th century's headlong industrial progress and its related urbanisation, people were concerned that they would end up as a cog in the machine and as vague spectres in a mass society. Our post-industrial world, despite all its promises, has not allayed these fears. Ours is ...
Certainty to Act: Bold in the Obedience | Charles Ringma | Pulse ...
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God is not there as a cover for our insecurities. He does not want us to be afraid of life and we cannot use him to fight life's battles. God is not meant to be a crutch. To believe in God does not mean that we do not believe in our own abilities. To look to God for help does not mean that we are helpless.
Entering the Desert | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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“Jesus full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil” (Luke 4: 1-2). The experience of the desert has long been a theme of Christian spirituality. Israel's experience of the long years in the wilderness marked it as a place ...
Focus | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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A spirituality of particularity. There is much that I find troubling about Western culture. This is not to say that there is also much good of which I am a grateful beneficiary. Political freedom. Education. Health care. Vocational opportunities. Economic stability. The list goes on and on. But one of the emphases in ...
From the Desert Hermitage | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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In the Alice Springs' retreat one of the surprise phrases that was repeated a number of times was the 'gaze of Christ.' One does not usually hear this. Not only does this sound too speculative or even too emotional, we 21st century urbanites don't have much of a sense that anyone has time to gaze at us, ...
From the Desert Hermitage | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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My hermitage time has temporarily shifted from Brisbane to the heart of Australia's red centre. I am on a spiritual retreat in the desert outside of Alice Springs. This one week retreat run by a Roman Catholic lay couple, among other things, focussed on the desert landscape as carrying important images and ...
From the Hermitage | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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My six-month hermitage journey has come to an end at the New Norcia Benedictine Monastery in Western Australia. After being here, visiting some of the Indigenous communities where we used to work in late 1950's/early 1960's, and a teaching trip to Manila, I expect that much of my life will be back to ...
From the Hermitage | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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One can't be too long on a hermitage journey of quiet reflection before one meets two 'friends' – nostalgia and regret. You may be surprised that I regard these as friends, but bear with me. Nostalgia is a wistful longing for something that was good in the past. Regret is almost the opposite. It is sadness ...
Hermitage in the Heart: part 1 | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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I can't possibly bring under words how difficult it has been in coming back to normal life activities after the six months hermitage experience. Put most simply, I feel both disoriented and lost. Yet surprisingly, this has nothing to do with the fact that my hermitage time was so magnificent or so insightful or so ...
Hermitage in the Heart: part 3 | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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Much of what we experience in daily life is pretty routine. Some, is downright boring. Rather than looking down on this, we are invited to live a spirituality of the ordinary. This means that we are thankful for the ordinary and that we hold in our hearts the joy that God is with us in the ordinary. But there are also ...
Hermitage in the Heart: part 4 | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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The Christian life does not flourish simply on inner gazing. And it never prospers by keeping a record of one's achievements. Nor is it enhanced by constant archaeological expeditions into one's inner being and regularly taking the pulse of one's spiritual state. The Christian life comes as gift, the gift of the ...
Intentionality | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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Putting things to their proper use. There are some very basic ways in which we can view the world and our fellow human beings. One way, is to see everything as inherently good. The opposite is that everything is somehow evil. Clearly, there are other ways in thinking about our world. The basic Christian ...
Is Resistance Ever Folly? | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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A spirituality of discernment. There are many people who just happily live their lives believing that all that happens in society is benign and that those in positions of power, whether political, business or social, work for the common good. Thus one basically accepts everything and questions nothing.
Know Thyself | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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The phrase, 'Know Thyself', is a famous ancient Greek saying that sees self-understanding as being intrinsic to wisdom. It also has everything to do with what we are considering here – what is life-giving. And of course, one can't consider that without also asking the question – what is death-dealing?
Living Upside Down Values | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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"The way of Christ is a strange way. It is living life with totally different values. One needs to be marked by the grace of Christ and sustained by the Spirit to live this way." The idea that the desert fathers and mothers went into the desert to escape reality is a profound misunderstanding of their way of life and ...
Loss (I): From My Journal* | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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At the age of ten I lost my homeland and my close extended family community in the small historic town of Franeker, Friesland, The Netherlands. My parents were economic migrants who made their way out of the ruins of World War II Europe to the 'promised land' of Australia. I have always felt this ...
Loss (II): From My Journal* | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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Loss is a much neglected topic in the modern world. Our society only speaks about opportunities and what we can gain. And it constantly tells what we need and therefore must have. Almost the only loss our society speaks positively about is weight loss. But loss is part of the very fabric of life. We lose our ...
Loss (III): From My Journal* | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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One theme worth exploring is the nature of loss within Christian thought and spirituality. The most basic and foundational theme is the human loss of primal innocence in the Edenic story of the Book of Genesis. Here humans lose their relationship with God through an easily identifiable human trait – an ...
Migration and the migrant God | Charles Ringma | Pulse | LinkedIn
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When the USA President, John F. Kennedy, made his famous speech in in Berlin, and uttered the phrase, “Ich bin ein Berliner,” the crowd went crazy with excitement. In making that statement, he was using the language of identification and solidarity. In reality he was not a Berliner. But he was one ...
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