Liberation 2010 is a conference being directed by kindred spirit, and friend Mark Anthony Lord, Founder and Spiritual Director of Bodhi Spiritual Center in Chicago and his co-host August Gold, who is the Spiritual Director of Sacred Center New York.
They see themselves as having returned to a sacred center — one that would be threatened by the existence of a Palestinian state, however feeble.
For secular Israelis, capturing the mount was a pinnacle of Zionism, which made the Jewish homeland more solid by reclaiming the sacred center of Judaism after two millenniums.
Jerusalem, where six hundred thousand mostly orthodox Jews and three hundred thousand mostly Muslim Arabs lead interlocking lives, is the sacred center of this conflict.* The city's light rail snakes through both communities, and its path (and its vandalized stations) are a proving ground for the contradictory realities that two-state advocates often overlook.
"The idea of having a sacred center is to create a space like a campus that's decent, clean and upscale in a design sense, but accessible to families, " observes Joe Cannon, editor of the church-owned local paper, The Deseret News.
At that sacred center, Andrews says, is credibility, and everyone associated with Contact from vendors in the corridors to speakers on the stage must have it.
The sacred center of Roman Catholicism is inside the borders of Italy, but Vatican City functions as a separate political entity.
Parker Palmer's "journey to a sacred center" required him to travel in the dark before he could "come to that center, full of light".
These sentinels of the sacred center aren't that concerned about the substance of any given debate, as long as the debaters don't offend their delicate sensibilities.
In Ankara, the country's new capital positioned far from Islamic Ottoman Istanbul, cops waiting at the train station turned back traditionally dressed village women deemed too pious for the new sacred center of the secular republic.
For women, this area is the sacred center where we hold life and yet it seems we have been conditioned to not only cover it up but to suffocate it.
