. >>> and the enduring messages of freedom in african-american spirituals. >>> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. a study released this week says mormons are the fastest growing religious group in the united states, followed by muslims. the religious congregations and membership study -- done every ten years -- is based on self-reported figures from u.s. congregations and religious bodies. the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, the mormons, reported adding 2 million regularly attending members in the u.s. since the year 2000, bringing their total to a little over 6 million. muslims reported 2.6 million, an increase of about 1 million over the last decade. mainline protestant denominations, meanwhile, lost about 13% of their members. and catholic membership declined by 5%. nevertheless, catholics remain the largest faith group in america at 59 million. >>> leaders of the united methodist church have voted against changing language in their church doctrine that calls homosexuality incompatible with christian teaching. meeting at their gene

be resolved, and in fact, he goes so far as to say that the legal profession, essentially, is a spiritual practice. pretty far afield, but i thought, you know, why don't we do a shocker- imagine having a lawyer speak about his profession as a spiritual practice. so if we could, let's just take a few minutes and listen to harrison shepherd, our lawyer friend in san francisco. >> you know, originally, traditionally, there were three professions. there were three professions- they were the professions of theology- the clergy; the profession of medicine- the doctors; and the profession of law. and these three professions, what it means to be a professional is to profess your faithfulness to a particular service to humanity- to spirit, body, and community, the human community. there's no doubt that law, in its highest function, is designed to bring order and community out of diversity and disorder. and the thing that i'm most concerned about in terms of what's happened to american legal practice is that the ideal of the rambo lawyer who is advocating a winner-take-all solution for a client is

spirituals in gospel music, of course, paul roveson identified with the spirituals and also identified with a strong voice of protest. leatine price, another african-american classical singer who was very prominent in this period. mahalia jackson, participated in the march on washington and a friend of dr. king and mr. reston, made a recording of spirituals and in addition to his brilliance as an organizer, he was a great singer as well. and then the tradition of the freedom songs, and this is primarily within snc, though freedom songs would be sung at other rallies, of other civil rights organizations but, you know, the freedom singers are part of the fund-raising arm of snc, and here's a button that folks would have worn back then. snc, the student, non-violent coordinating committee. now, when you think about this music, obviously not all the musical selections are coming from african-american artists, but if a song was recorded by a black artist, it was likely to be invested by audiences with political meaning, regardless of its content so when aretha franklin sings a song called "

in the spirit of love, hope, and remembrance, let us embrace their spiritual presence.hey were once young men and woman who converted to school books to helmets, from sneakers to combat boot. when war shadowed our country and freedom was threatened, men and woman rolled up their sleeves and answered the call. from g.i. joe to rosie the ri t rivet riveter. from the tractor and plow to jump chutes and parachutes, from the great depression threats to m-1s and bayonets. to crossing the line in desert sands and patrolling the devastating roads of iraq and afghanistan, young american warriors pressing forward for freedom for her majesty, for family, for old glory, one nation under god, with liberty and justice for all. men and woman across our great nation stood up, left their homes, and valiantly marched forward. and back home, back home, a veteran's guardian angel remains on eternal watch. god sent and responsible for our existence, the one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and what sets her apart is the power of love, embraced within the cradle of he

rustin as a spiritual being. you mentioned his incarceration, being beat ending with colleagues betrying him, colleagues become assassinated. is there any point of his letters does he mention his diet. what did he do throughout his life to maintain the spirit center the nonviolence status? >> thanks for that question. shortly after he went to jail, bayard wrote a letter to his grandmother julia and asked to read a particular psalm at 1:00 in the afternoon on his birth birthday. and so, he also said that he would do the same thing so together they could be together in spirit on the birthday. i want at 1:00 on march 17th, 1944, bayard sits in jail and his grandmother sits in her had homing with together they read a psalm that reads something like this: dear lord, be with me. my enemies trample me. this i know, god is with me. what can a mere mortal do to me? throughout his imprisonment, he reads the bible closely, and he writes about his reading the scriptture christian scriptture and jewish scriptture in the lette

he does have spiritual practices and spiritual inspiration early on. it seems later in his life he becomes less, what do i want to say? publicly spiritual. he doesn't wear his spirituality on his sleeve, but i chatted by e-mail with walter nagle about this and he let me know that bayard meditated regularly and to practice these values that he learned from his parents early on. i want to emphasize that as well. thank you for your and. he was, i think i'm a deeply spring will begin. many people missed that because he is such a political being at the same time. one other thing that i would like to let you know is that he made that mlk kept his eyes on the prize of spiritual value. there is one speech that doctor king has in hand in part by stanley levinson, it is in 1957 in washington dc. wired writes a letter saying we need to do something about this. so he pulls king and other leaders back to spiritual values. he wants them to say focused on political tactics, no doubt, but he wants them to remember that they are after a spiritual goal. and that goal pr

once i dealt with the emotional, spiritual, mental impetus, i no longer felt the need to take drugs or use drugs. i got clean actually at chip summers' facility, focus 12, which is abstinence-based recovery. that's what we essentially believe in, is that if you have the disease or illness or addiction of alcoholism, the best way to tackle is not use drugs in any form like state-sponsored opiates like methadone or a legal substance like alcohol. we see no distinction between these substances. what we believe is that abstinence-based kroefr is the best solution for people suffering from this condition. and the support structures exist to get people to maintain recovery, abstinence-based recovery. what we want is more research and funding into abstinence-based recovery and fill the people towards this new lifestyle, which actually, criminalization becomes less of an issue in my view because it takes people who often indulge in criminal behavior for their habits. was that brief enough? >> very brief. thank you. you were arrested roughly 12 times by -- >> it was rough. yes. >> -- by the pol

spirituals are the root of most african american history. and music. it is important to know where the spirituals come from. the music came from africa. there are slave testimonies to the fact that music came from africa. and so that is the root of african-american music which is renowned around the world. the other thing that happened is that in the u.s. especially, we lost the ability to use the drum. we did not lose the ability to use rhythm. the -- which is the most direct link to africa, we use the staff and hand clapping. we are going to do a song that will become familiar to me -- to you in a moment. it was put together by our musical director who is holding the staff. and our soloists will be carolyn and nedra. when i ask you to join in, i want you to help us out. all right? thank you very much. [applause] [singing] [drums and singing] ♪ in the water ♪ ♪ [applause] [singing] ♪ ♪ [singing] [applause] >> the project. [applause] let's give them another round. ok. that brings us to the acknowledgements and closing remarks. on behalf of the san fran

and i think, as far as spiritual matters go, that that's incredibly important. whether that's the way we're socialized or whatever it is i think that we tend to have a sense of things, that if we can learn to trust it, especially with the discernment of a community, it can be a really spiritually enlivening thing. >> jones believes women bring to theology what she calls a sense of spirituality wedded to the ordinary. >> it's about breaking bread and putting on band-aids on a skinned knee, and about being angry and standing up for justice in a community. those aren't things that men don't do, because they do. it's just that women somehow bear that in their souls with a depth and a persistence that brings freshness to ministry. >> the journey for women has been a journey that's been so difficult so that when they finally are able to step on this path, there's a level of just like deep joy and gratitude. >> for charlene sinclair, a 4th year phd student, seminary has been a way to enhance her work as a community organizer. >> seminary actually not only gave me permi

they went everywhere. >> world prayer assembly hopes to equip those with the practical and spiritual tools needed to make a difference in their communities. >> we want to provide opportunities for them to learn and be resourced. >> kind of encouragement after attending one of the lecture series. he pastored a church in switzerland. >> it has boosted my faith to go back, believe god, the same god what he can do. i believe he can do it in europe again. >> one spot is the 24/7 prayer room. >> you can hear it, prayer, intercession, worship brought into the prayer room. what does it sound like? come with me. ♪ it was in here that cbn news met this evangelist. >> it is wonderful when people begin praying for the nation. this is spiritual warfare, we are asking god to shape and change the futures of nations. >> they were especially moved. >> i felt as if i was part of a huge family, christians fervently praying the lord impacts the destination of my country. >> in a few days they were scattered to the four corners of the globe. carrying with them a renewed excitement and determination to se

but new religious movements, new spiritualities that are emerging, they are new, they are different. if it's different let's hate it. no! let's not. that's the attitude that we want to overcome here just because it happens to be new. skeptics, atheist, humanist, some of the most religious people i have ever met have been the atheist, they have a huge-- you can take the six dimensions and track it right on down. so, these are kinds of people in society that might not reflect the prevailing values, new revelations that may have an intense way prosthetising such as the unification church sometimes called moonies or scientology is always popping up because of various issues that people take with the establishment. anything else we might have here, going through the graphics; occult groups. these are kinds of religious as you seeing millennial groups once again, occultist groups, spiritualists; people who live on the fringe of the establishment, but for whatever reason, don't reflect the prevailing values and go through it. so, that's all we are talking about, you can take this same crite

send in a studied a little bit -- a lot actually on america's spirituality.turns out over half of americans say they've had a transformative spiritual experience that changed their lives. that's great, but increasingly these events or personal experience which are untethered from any religious faith. i wouldn't discount experiences. an encounter with god is really the foundation for every religion. that experience can be flabby, lee to, lychee self-centeredness and as ross pointed out, you can wander from traditional morality. i love how he puts a year. he goes to prompting of one's inner self aren't necessarily identical to the prompting of the holy spirit. sometimes the god within and thank god it all just the ego using spirituality as a convenient cause for its own desires and pulses. an intensely jealous of his ability to write. just because these really great. i think rosses writes that the special order jesus' influence a young christian. most young evangelicals don't believe that this is true. according to polls, most young evangelicals do not believe

about an ad proposal tied to a rublican super pac that would have tied president obama to his old spiritual adviser and polital nemesis jeremiah wright. it was submitted by a republblican strategist, fred dis, but it never ran. joe ricketts, founderer of td ameritrade and the owner of the cubs who "the new york times" said was willing to $18 million to finance the campaign, wked away from it. romney said at first that he had not seen the story and later in the day he said this. >> i want to make it clear i repudiate that effort. it is the wrong course for a pac. i hope our campaigns can be about the future and issueand a vision for america. i have been disappointed in the president's campaign to date which has been focused on character assassination. we are wiser to talk about issusues othe day and what we do to get america workinggain. >> he is talking aboutut the obamama ads painting romneney and bain capital as a job killers. it buries mitt romney's message for a full day, mark. >> it is s must've of reflective of the influence t that per pacs have. they are spending more than political

as an adult with a racist demagogue who married him, baptized his kids, and he referred to as a spiritual mentor. no greater hypocrisy. >> nina? >> i am surprised tt you, charles. this is an example of why when you don't have people who are accountable to you, they can hurt you. that is what happened here. in the case of "the washington post," you could take or leave the story, and most people left it, including on this show. this really, i think, did hurt romney did not for a long time, but there will be other campaigns like this, certainly from republicans, who raised a lot more money than democrats, and obably frodemocrats, who will get into the super pac business. and we won't know who paid for them, and they will be reprehensible. it is a ruxton reflection of what has happened to a democratic system. >> colby? >> from the point of view of the people who prepared that ad common mission accomplished. if you had not seen it, unless you know what is in it -- i found it ironic that mitt romney was taking the high road, saying, "i repudiate this," given that in february, he went on the han

suggest that he drop in the church occasionally -- he himself referred to jeremiah wright is the spiritual mentor. it is not a casual association. it is 8 association. if that is not relevant, nothing is. >> whose campaign is moving in and a proper direction? forget the pac thing. >> a lot of this has to do with what is happening outside the campaign spirit romney has not changed a bit. he is the same dull, stolid guy he has always been. the personal approval is way up. the primaries are over so he is not being knocked week after week after week for his flaws. obama in the winter was the beneficiary of a slight uptick in the economy, which might have been a false dawn. it is overtime and 0-0. >> president obama was on "the view" with those women and his numbers with women are pretty good. romney is up with women. >> they are starting to redefine each other, and we will see movement up and down. this is hardly an indication of where they will end up in. > this will be the nose -- and up in november. >> this will be the most negative can paint any of us remembers. neither one point an-- neit

moral certainty, clear standards, andthe commitment to spiritual ideas will set you apart in a world searching for meaning. that said, your values will not always be the object of public adoration. the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world. it showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of jesus christ. may that be your guide as well. you enter a world with civilizations and economies that are far from equal. harvard university historian and devoted his lifelong study to understanding why some civilizations rise and by others falter. his conclusion was this -- culture makes all the difference. not natural resources, geography, but what people believe and what they value. central to america's rise to global leadership is our christian foundation. the american culture promotes personal responsibility. the dignity of work. the value of education. the merit of service. devotion to a purpose greater than self. and that the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. the power of these values, the sculptor, is evidence

his own spiritual adviser, reverend joel hunter, he is disappointed and disagrees. obama's remarks undermind the institution of marriage and president of the southern baptist convention will hold them accountable that completely ignores the biblical foundation of marriage. bishop jackson in maryland agreed. >> i was disappointed. >> how this announcement plays politically is far from certain. 28 percent of registered voters say it will be important to their vote this fall. 31 states, north carolina as of tuesday have approved traditional marriage amendments. obama's move could draw social conservatives to the romney campaign. >> i am inclined to these the people strongly opposed to same-sex marriage is probably larger than the percentage of people who strongly support it>> for now, the president says the issue is out of his hands saying it is still up to individual states to decide on gay marriage. >> reverend franklin graham has weighed in on an issue. changing his position on same-sex marriage, quote, president obama has in my view, shaken his fist at the same god

. >> in conjunction with the institute for world spirituality you've moved your study to an international scale, where is the study headed? >> well about 8 years ago, i was invited to sit on the board of an organization in europe that was doing some of the same study of particularity the smaller religious groups in europe. and in my travels overseas, and involvement with this group called cesnur, center for study of new religions in turin, italy. i became aware that europe was somewhat like we were 20 years ago. there were no good reference book and no good understanding of the religious landscape that had immerged with all the pluralism that hit europe. at the same time we begun to realize that many of the same groups we were dealing with here were also in europe so that there was a great deal of carry-over. that led to the idea of producing some reference books on europe similar to what we had here. but then very quickly, particularly in the last couple of years with the funding from the institute of world spirituality here in chicago, that we could do the whole world, and we should do

one was spiritual and historical. the other was strategic and military. and yet you now have had a head of the party, benjamin netanyahu -- why are we doing this? we're doing this because we know these same lands are the homelands of another people and that those people are a people who are endowed with a right of self determination. the only way we're ever going to end this conflict is by sharing it. and we have seen that settlements have not been the obstacle for peace. we were able to negotiate a peace treat rewith the egyptians and the palestinians f a long time with the settlements. under two peace offers made to the palestinians in 2000, 2008, the settlement issue was not what drove the palestinians to reject them. it wasn't because of the settlements. in 2005, we ripped up 21 settlements and threw 9100 people out of their homes in gaza. as a reserve officer who served there, there was nothing more traumatic for me than doing this. we did it in the hope of advancing the peace process. we didn't advance the peace process. we got rockets, thousands of

for me, taking drugs was a result of a psychological spiritual or mental condition. i was sad, lonely, unhappy, detached and drugs and alcohol, for me, seemed like a solution to that problem. once i dealt with the emotional, spiritual, mental impetus, i no longer felt the need to use drugs. i got clean at chip somers. if you have the disease or illness of addiction, the best way toing thatle it is to not use drugs in any form, wherever it is state-sponsored open yats or illegal street drugs or a legal substance like alcohol. we see no distinction. what we believe in is that abstinence-based recovery is the best solution for people suffering from this condition and the support structures exist to get people to maintain recovery. what we want is more research and funding into abstinence-based recovery and to be able to filter people towards this new lifestyle, which actually criminalization becomes less of an issue, in my view, because it takes people to fund their habits and gets them into being value members of thank you. >> thank you. >> was that brief enough? >> ve

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what we believe to be true about spiritual and physical reality and in whom we place our faith, align our thinking and order our love. as such, our understanding and practice of faith necessarily has extraordinarily public consequences. cultures grow around a shared set of blows, and when the nature of those beliefs change, so will society. a fact which has fueled many of the cultural battles around the practice of faith in the public square. but while many of the culture wars have been cast as battles between the faithful and the faithless or between those who want to impose their religion on everybody else and those who want to strip the practice of faith from the public square entirely, a new book by ross douthat argues that the most corrosive factor has not been either excessive religiousty or expansive secularism, but rather, bad religion. the erosion and distortion of orthodox christianity in a manner that has engendered the base rise of the faith that, in his own words, indulge our follies and encourage our worst impulses. with disastrous political, civic, economic and relation

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it is spiritually empty. there is a news story being born in san francisco. it is one where the more you contribute to the common good, the more you are respected. the better you believe in committee, the more access to what you have -- the better you behave in a community, the more access you have. instead of judging each other, we help each other and realize our greatest potential. we open our world to each other. through doing that, we are liberated. we find freedom through our relationships. i have lived both of these stories. the old one almost broke my spirit. the sharing story has saved me. let's continue the discussion about how we can bring more people into that story. thank you. [applause] >> we will start with you. is that ok? >> sure. and the mayor's chief innovation officer, it is a new position created three months ago. i am excited to be part of that. my role is to use new approaches and ideas to solve longstanding civic issues. we launched the mayor's 2012 innovation portfolio the couple of weeks ago. a couple of weeks ago. we're looking for v

one of his spiritual advisors. paul hunter.ter opposes same-sex marriage but he says most young people do not. one of his influences was his daughters who have friends with same-sex parents. >> i conclude for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> reporter: the president said he was influenced by gay and lesbian men and service woman he helped free from the constraints of don't ask, don't tell. his decision opens another front in a battle with likely challenger mitt romney who has been making clear he disagrees. >> i do not favor marriage between people of the same gender and i don't favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage opt are than by name. my view is a domestic benefits hospital visitation rights and the like are appropriate, but the others are not. >> reporter: the president planned on making the announcement before the democratic national convention which is being held in north carolina whose voters just banned same-sex marr

lord, we are gathered here to petition for prayers from our spiritual guides, patron of las americas, and pray for us. st. francis of assisi, pray for us. pray for us. martyrs of the union, pray for us. brother cesar chavez, pray for us. brother larry, pray for us. brother pete, pray for us. sister jessica, pray for us. brother matt, pray for us. c brother. havez, pray for us. brother are johnson, pray for us. almighty god, we ask that you continue to protect us and shelter as in the shadow of your weans. we are blessed at the farm working eagle, our spiritual guide, helps us to see the working in the fields with the hands of suffering farmworkers that feed the nation. it will apply for generations to come, and there will be truly a national union of farm workers that cesar, delors, and the pioneers organize. almighty god, bless us this morning. amen. si se puede. [applause] >> thank you, sal. it is always an honor for me to be able to recognize someone whose career and a service to our city goes without saying. but before i introduce him, and want to make sure that we recognize some

and it's not just spiritual refreshment that's on offer in this republic you just need to take a trip out into the mountains to find it believe it or not these. no we haven't just hopped on a plane to china we'll still very much not again and this is the most northerly tea plantation in the world according to head botanist boris course the tea plant is much more robust than you might think and i'm not sure. this region is one of the best places for growing t.v. because when temperatures here drop below zero it's normally accompanied by snow. our plants can withstand temperatures as low as thirty degrees below zero or about minus twenty two fire and night. although the cold weather does leave its mark. sometimes we find damage leaves like this one maybe this happens because of the cold. this is a seriously cool my product that sells for up to ten dollars per one hundred grams and everyone here is trying to make the most of it. so this pruning is a very important process because it allows the shoots to grow back even higher so when it does come to summer in picking time you get a much h

he saw man as a sexual being tormented by a sense of spiritual despair.e thought human existence without meaning, a continual striving doomed to frustration. schiele's willingness to confront himself and his world directly, however disturbing, is at the core of modern art, found d not only in vienna, but especially in germany in expressionism. at this time, germany was engaged in rapid industrialization and imperial expansion. many artists rejected this new germany. but, ironically, they were influenced by the exotic world discovered in the kaiser's colonies in africa and the pacific. the myth of the innocent savage held special attractions for artists across europe. i think especially of a small group of german artists, hardly more than students, who called themselves die brucke, the bridge. they were based in dresden. these artists, like schiele, thoroughly disliked the idea of art as like some sort of beautiful curtain. inspired by what they thought of as the directness, the spontaneity of primitive art, they tried to free themselves from the constrain

someone who has really gone to the depth of their spiritual journey.z humanity that one would scarcely think possible given the suffering she endured. >>reporter: she runs friendship tour. unique opportunity for high school students to visit historically important locations. i travel with her students from santa barbara to this city with photo of kim was taken. >> i said let's go. let's go investigate the cons qu of war together. teachers and students. discovering what it is that these people have to teach because how to heal. >>reporter: visiting this area gives the young southern californians a much deeper understanding of what kim and her family had to live through in the war. >> kids are naturally compassionate. when they see the photograph they recognize themselves because she is a universal image of children. >>reporter: nearby city visit a war museum where kim photo hangs along with many other images of the war. they stare at the picture the importance clearer. >> i have seen this picture countless times before we came on this trip. but the firs

and all that eventually brought me here to try and reach the spiritual state of buddha. i could have told you that i would be helping everyone that i would be reading mantras for the sake of all living creatures. but things are not that simple can you honestly i do not know myself what is going to happen to me. and so on does not yet know what the future holds in store for him but he is certain that he will continue his education he may leave the datsun and go to india to study buddhism there. did it just the thing it is that an ordinary person believes that he is living his only life right now so when mistakes seem really scary the one of his is not the case. amanda is a geometric model of the universe a sacred image music and songs accompany the construction ritual the monks spend hours working on the cult canvas only to destroy it later as any model of the universe is it but his terms questionable. lucky mission free accreditation free transport chargers free. range mission three per treat her stereotype free pirlo free blog plug in video for your media projects and f