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| Awakening the Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions | 
 enlarge | Creator: John C. Morgan
Publisher: Skinner House Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 698690
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 155896410X
Dewey Decimal Number: 242.2
EAN: 9781558964105
ASIN: 155896410X
Publication Date: November 1, 2000
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Product Description
This devotional book is a spiritual resource for nurturing the soul. Pulled from worldwide religious traditions, this daily devotional focuses both on personal reflection and broad-ranging topics such as forgiveness, suffering, and social justice. Whether we use the traditional religious language, or if we just ask for what is right and just, our lives and the lives we touch are deepened and made ready. Jung was right: "Bidden or not bidden, God is present." If enough o us begin with our own spiritual disciplines, a whole community may be transformed, or a neighborhood or city or nation.
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Reflections from a Universalist Sage May 27, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
AWAKENING THE SOUL by John C. Morgan
AWAKENING THE SOUL is a wonderful "download" from a
seasoned minister's soul --- a cornucopia of
thought-provoking, spiritual readings from a variety
of sources, seasoned with the hopeful message of
Christian Universalism. John C. Morgan is a Christian
Universalist minister with sixteen years of pastoral
experience in the theologically diverse Unitarian
Universalist denomination.
Although structured as daily devotionals, this book
provides a treasure-trove of material appropriate for
Christian or interfaith ministers and lay leaders to
use during group worship. This is the stuff that
"Orders of Service" are made of! Liberal Christians
will be especially delighted with the classic
quotations and stories from prominent Universalists,
including John Murray and George De Benneville. One
example is this from Olympia Brown (the first woman in
the United States to be ordained by a denomination):
"The foundation of democracy is the realization that
every human being is a child of God..., always trusting
in the one God which ever lives and loves."
The overall tone of the book is best described by John
Morgan himself at the end of the Preface: "In the
end, it won't matter how much you have, but rather how
much you have given. It won't matter how much you
know, but rather how much you love. And it won't
matter how much you profess to believe, but rather how
deeply you live the few enduring truths you claim as
ultimate. All the rest is discipline."
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