Nurture Your Spiritual Path: Exploring the Rainbow of Belief

Product Description Nurture Your Spiritual Path offers us the potential for growth and fulfillment through an examination of the world's historic religions, new avenues of emerging spiritual thought, and a rapidly developing global culture. This book is for the millions who consider themselves spiritual and for those who don't, but try to live lives of integrity and conscience. It's also for the billions who identify with one of the world's major religions but are also interested in other faiths. Most of us adhere to the beliefs we inherited, and John Young doesn't suggest we discard them. Rather, he invites us to open ourselves to the wealth of wisdom we can discover by learning about other traditions and provides opportunities to integrate the best of the world's modern-day spiritual practices with elements of historic religions that touch our spirit. He provides roadmaps that can guide us to a more meaningful understanding of our diversity, and the creation of personal devotional practices that enable us to fulfill our hopes for a future determined by how well we cooperate, share, and embrace the Earth as our home. About the Author John Young is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister and professor. He grew up in Kansas, earned a BA at Wichita State University, completed his doctoral coursework in political science at Washington University in St. Louis, and received his Doctorate of Ministry degree from Meadville/Lombard Seminary at the University of Chicago. In mid-career, he was also a Harvard Fellow.John served churches in Chicago; New York City; Bloomington, Indiana; Paramus, New Jersey; Sacramento, California; and Jacksonville, Florida. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of North Florida where he taught courses in nonviolence, the religions of India, the truth and reconciliation process (with Archbishop Desmond Tutu), liberal religion, and combining activism with personal spiritual practices.John has been an active advocate for civil rights, disarmament, mental health, LGBTQ rights, anti-poverty and anti-racism issues, and eliminating homelessness. He has served as president: of the U.S. Chapter of International Association for Religious Freedom and the UU-UN Office, was chair of the UU Society of San Francisco's social justice council, and presently serves on the U.S. chapter board and the international Council of IARF. In 2009, he retired to San Francisco. John is married to Kathleen Moran, a retired editor and technical writer. John and Kathleen hike, bike, play piano, and savor the Bay Area's cultural offerings.