Podcasts about faith beyond belief stories

Practicing Optometrist, Dr. Margaret Placentra Johnston is expanding her mission of providing clearer vision into the spiritual domain. She aims to share a broader view about religion and spirituality than that recognized in the conventional world. Her first book Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind was named Gold Winner of the 2013 Nautilus Book Award in Western Religion/Spirituality. Dr. Johnston’s second book, Overcoming Spiritual Myopia: A View Toward Peace Among the Religions, winner of the Body, Mind, Spirit Book Award in Spiritual Psychology discusses many factors in Western culture that are calling us to enlarge our understanding of religion and spirituality beyond the “truths” dispensed in our typical organized religions. Dr. Johnston offers courses and speaks to groups on the topic of spiritual development and has been interviewed on numerous radio shows. Visit www.MPJauthor.com. Make a donation to America Meditating Radio today. CLICK HERE.  Get the new Your Inner World – Guided Meditations by Sister Jenna. Visit www.AmericaMeditating.org.  Download our free Pause for Peace App for Apple or Android.

What brings people to leave their church, the traditions of their faith - and sometimes even their friends and family members - to embark on a personal journey of spiritual discovery? Author Margaret Placentra Johnston will visit Let's Face It to discuss her book: Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind.The book highlights 10 courageous people's quests for spiritual integrity coupled w/ the author’s commentary. Ms. Johnston demonstrates how these inspiring stories should illuminate our own search for a form of faith that connects with an ever-evolving understanding of life.

What brings people to leave their church, the traditions of their faith - and sometimes even their friends and family members - to embark on a personal journey of spiritual discovery? Author Margaret Placentra Johnston will visit Let's Face It to discuss her book: Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind.The book highlights 10 courageous people's quests for spiritual integrity coupled w/ the author’s commentary. Ms. Johnston demonstrates how these inspiring stories should illuminate our own search for a form of faith that connects with an ever-evolving understanding of life.

“When winning becomes too important, it blurs concern for the way our actions affect others; it necessarily sets up someone on the opposing side who must “lose.” The win/??lose mentality prominent in our society is a symptom of a much larger problem—a spiritual problem, in fact.” - Dr. Margaret Placentra Johnston After practicing Optometry for over three decades - helping people to see better in the physical world - Dr. Margaret Placentra Johnston now offers clearer vision of a different sort - a broader perspective about religion and spirituality than what the conventional world typically recognizes. The author of Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind, Dr. Johnston feels the spiritual development stages have the power to bring an end to religious intolerance and should be part of the general knowledge of our culture.  Faith Beyond Belief has won a number of awards including being named the Gold Winner of the 2013 Nautilus Book Award in Religion/Spirituality.  Visit www.FaithBeyondBelief-book.com.  Watch the book trailer. Get the OFF TO WORK CD & Off the Grid Into the Heart CD by Sister Jenna.  Like America Meditating on FB & follow us on Twitter.

Today I sit down with Faith Development Author, Margaret Placentra Johnston.  We discuss here book, Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind.  Margaret hits on so many points of faith transition that will ring familiar to your journey.  Taking beliefs more allegorical, dealing with tension, Trusting your truth over the […] The post 136: Margaret Placentra Johnston: Faith Beyond Belief appeared first on Mormon Discussion by Bill Reel.

Special guest Margaret Placentra Johnston, OD, author of the award winning book, Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind, will be sharing her well-educated perspectives and discussing her book LIVE today on a Fine Time for Healing.  Dr. Johnston's "Spiritual Deveopment Theory" is based on the work of fourteen theorists of various centuries, parts of the world, and disciplines. These theorists have all described a universal spiritual path toward improving the collective human experience in our current reality and uniting us all in our common search for a connection with something greater than ourselves. Dr. Johnston offers an eye-opening perspective of spirituality based on conscious choice that looks past the restrictions of organized religion; one that is highly beneficial to each of us personally and to the global world we live in. To learn more about Margaret Placentra Johnston, OD and her book, please visit http://www.faithbeyondbelief-book.com  

Margaret Placentra Johnston, author of Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind Faith Beyond Belief gives a much-needed voice to the “good” people who have left their church but whose spirituality continues to mature.  Margaret uses first-person stories as well as known spiritual authorities in describing various stages of religious growth.  Some of these real-life accounts are by nonbelievers; others are by those among the growing numbers of the “spiritual but not religious.”  All are thoughtful people with too much integrity to live what they consider a lie. The stories of the nonbelievers-including an ex-Catholic, a former Mormon, and a clandestine Muslim apostate who left his community after the attacks of 9/11-show how complete confidence in human reason can lead away from literal religious interpretation. A practicing optometrist, she has been helping people see better in the physical world for the last thirty years.  Now she writes to help people see more clearly in other ways.  Captivated by the depth and beauty of the universal worldview described by various spiritual development theorists, Margaret found ten regular, real life people whose stories could show us steps on the way to that worldview.  Her book, Faith Beyond Belief, is the result of that search.  For more information visit: http://www.faithbeyondbelief-book.com/ Margaret 's blog can be found at Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithbeyondbelief/   music1

Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind with author Margaret Placentra Johnston.