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Two Halves of Live, September gathering: Stages of Faith
Posted Thursday 30 September 2010
Photograph: Glacier Layers, Norway. Slim Sepp
Faith is a verb, a process of becoming
“Faith is a verb, a process of becoming, involving our loving, trusting, believing, acting, suffering, valuing, knowing, committing. (Alan Jamieson)” Exploring the impact on our spiritual growth that stages of faith, the movement between them and the layering that ensues. Such transitions are often experienced as "radical upheaveals and major crises" and are typically prompted by life changes. Jesus's words 'For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.' come to the fore. Click for compact reflection sheet (PDF) or Search the Resources directory. Includes poems by Stanley Kunitz (Layers) and RS Thomas (Fathoms) plus text from Alan Jamieson(A Churchless Faith) and Peter Drury (Imaging the Word). A re-stating of the research by James Fowler on the stages of faith.