The time for healing of the wounds has come.
The time to build is upon us...
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people
from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation,
suffering, gender and other discrimination...
There is no easy road to freedom...
None of us acting alone can achieve success.
We must therefore act together as a united people,
for reconciliation, for nation building,
for the birth of a new world.
-------- Nelson Mandela
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It Matters What We Believe
Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They
encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being
especially privileged.
Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way
to wider and deeper sympathies.
Some beliefs are like shadows, clouding
children's days with fears of unknown
calamities.
Other beliefs are like sunshine, blessing children
with the warmth of happiness.
Some beliefs are divisive, separating the saved
from the unsaved, friends from enemies.
Other beliefs are bonds in a
world community, where sincere differences
beautify the pattern.
Some beliefs are like blinders, shutting off the power
to choose one's own direction
Other beliefs are like gateways opening
wide vistas for exploration.
Some beliefs weaken a person's self-hood.
They blight the growth of resourcefulness.
Other beliefs nurture self confidence and enrich the
feeling of personal worth.
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death,
impotent in a changing world.
Other beliefs are pliable, like
the young sapling, ever growing with the upward
thrust of life.
------- Sophia Lyon Fahs, UU
Background music is called The
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MidiFarm
Acting Out Faith.... Working to Make the World a Better Place.....
AIDS Research Information Center Homebase
International Committee of the Red Cross
Muscular Dystrophy Association
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Link4Life- Helping Third World Peoples
Adding to the Knowledge, the Sharing, the Curiosity........
Links to Spiritual Seeking
DESCRIPTIONS OF 63 RELIGIONS,
FAITH GROUPS & ... - Non Christian Faiths, Continued.
Religion and
Theology - Spiritual Reading list
Other Christian and Religious Sites - True Grace Ministries
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION - Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Jim Moyers, MA, MFCC - Psychotherapy, Religion... - Jim Moyers is a psychotherapist who specializes, among other things, in counseling former members of restrictive religious groups.
The Scientific Pantheism mailing list - debates - An exploration of Scientific Pantheism
The Traditions Tree - Talk City on Religious Traditions, INTERNET CHAT
Soc.Religion.Bahai 09/96-10/96: Re: Bahai'i an... A Bahai newsgroup post
KCPL KidLinks - Religions of the World - Links on religion for Kids
People - More Newsgroup resources
