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Welcome! At Signs and Wonders we sift through the World Wide Web looking for evidence of emerging religious futures. Our mission is to provide our readers -- religious futurists, ministers, and just plain spiritual people -- with a guided tour of the web, stopping wherever we see the future of faith unfolding before our eyes. We update this site every three days or so, so come back again and join us on our next trip. If you want to comment on anything you read here or discuss religious futures in general, come over to our forum. |
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April 04, 2000 [social] -- Prayer Walking: merging physical and spiritual fitness by Cody Clark at 11:52 AM (EST)  Here's an article from efit.com on "Prayer Walking" -- a take on the traditional practice of Buddhist walking meditation revved up to fitness speeds. For another voice on mixing spirituality with exercise, read this meditation column from Interlude. editor -- A budding trend, especially in the U.S. among the faithful who struggle to find time to pray. With the incursion of martial arts into fitness routines (winess Tae Bo and Cardio Kickboxing) the public is primed for a fitness movement that merges body, spirit, and mind with a rapid heartbeat. You read it here first, remember? [social] -- The spiritual crisis in America's rural heartland by Cody Clark at 8:04 AM (EST) From beliefnet, Desperate family farmers in America's heartland are losing their farms and their spirituality as well. As agribusiness crowds out small farms, farming ceases to be a way of life for many rural folks, causing them to lose their bearings. Pastors and bishops say the farm crisis has seeped into heartland churches, threatening the vital sense of community, draining revenues, and causing despair for pastors and parishioners. editor -- An unfortunate trend we'll keep our eye on. Physical poverty and economic desperation is the real looming threat to the preferred futures of most major religions. Will the economic "have/have not gap" become a spiritual one as well? |
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