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A Hindu Perspective on Social Action

Seeta Lakhani — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:55:56 +0000

What is good for ourselves?
The word Good is a meta-term that needs to be unpacked before we discuss the issue of doing good.

A Sikh Perspective on Love

navleenk — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:23:26 +0000

"Hear you all, I say the truth, He who loves alone attains God"

( Tenth Nanak-Dasam Granth)

Sikhi stresses that without love the journey cannot begin, our traditions, practices are empty and useless. There are countless examples in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib of what "to love "is, it is an action, a verb:

"Listen my heart, Let thy love be that of the lotus for the pool, though the ripples shake the lotus and torment it, it flowerth and loveth even more the waters.

A Sikh perspective on Social Action

navleenk — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:24:16 +0000

A Christian perspective on Social Action

John Breadon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:19:50 +0000

A Buddhist perspective on Social Action

Amaranatho — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:18:33 +0000

A Buddhist perspective

A Muslim perspective on Church

Basma Elshayyal — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:09:07 +0000

I'd like this piece to be a little different, so I'll start off quoting:

To Allah belong the east and the West: Whithersoever ye turn, there is the presence of Allah. For Allah is all-Pervading, all-Knowing. (2:115)

The building

A Jewish perspective on Church

Debbie Young-Somers — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:08:03 +0000

I am always amused when people ask me about Jewish churches, partly because we have synagogues, and Christians have churches, but also because the synagogue I grew up in used to be a church and we worked very hard to make it more like a synagogue (even though the building was cross-shaped!)

Together or alone?

A Humanist perspective on Church

Andrew Copson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:06:25 +0000

Human beings are social animals. Like our closest relative the chimpanzee, we tend to live together in groups, and we have ways of behaving that have evolved over time. This tendency towards community life was hypothesised by Darwin in the nineteenth century:

A Christian perspective on Church

John Breadon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:05:04 +0000

The diversity of Christianity

A Buddhist perspective on Church

Amaranatho — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:04:01 +0000

A Sikh perspective on Gender

navleenk — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:01:06 +0000

Religion is gender-free

A Muslim perspective on Gender

Basma Elshayyal — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:00:13 +0000

A Jewish perspective on Gender

Debbie Young-Somers — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:58:36 +0000

Huge amounts have been written about this subject so there is obviously much to say. I will have to be brief however and try and limit myself.

A Humanist perspective on Gender

Andrew Copson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:57:34 +0000

For many centuries in the Western world, women were seen as inferior in a number of ways and denied the same rights as men. The past century has seen a growing recognition that, although men and women are certainly different, they should be treated equally and given the same opportunities in life as each other. At the same time, there has been a growing recognition that men may favour roles that were once assigned to women - like staying home to raise a family, for example.

A Hindu perspective on Gender

Seeta Lakhani — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:56:12 +0000

God as female

A Christian perspective Gender

John Breadon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:45:06 +0000

A Buddhist perspective on Gender

Amaranatho — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:43:45 +0000

What about the boys!

A Sikh perspective on GOD

navleenk — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:42:00 +0000

The word God in Gurmukhi (Sacred language of the Sikhs) is Akal Purakh or Parmatma (supreme soul). The description given below appears on the first page of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib ( the sacred scriptures of the Sikhs) and is the primal definition of God.

One Universal Creator God.

The Name Is Truth.

Creative Being Personified.

No Fear.

No Hatred.

Image Of The Undying, Beyond Birth, Self-Existent.

By Guru's Grace

(SGGS p.1)