Spiritual Autobiography

When I first saw in the syllabus the type of paper we would be writing for this course I thought about what culture means to me. What was the culture of my family? Where did we come from? How did we end up in Virginia? How did we end up believing some of the things we believe? To me culture was basically how I was raised—my behaviors, beliefs, values, and ideas cultivated during my youth and its evolvement as I grew into an adult. This truly was to be a very interesting and involved quest for information. Though I attempted to use websites such as www.genealogy.com and www.ancestry.com, I found most of the information from a couple of the adults in my family. Adults? I, too, am an adult, but in my family, age comes

Associate professor Julie Bette at University of California wrote an essay regarding young women views about their gender. In this chapter titled “Women Without Class”, the author, Julie Bette, explores how female teenagers express different version of their femininity. Bette conducts her exploration by observing and interview female high schoolers in small town located in California’s central valley. The tittle “Women Without Class” to reflects Bette’s interest in young women from modest means and low educational attainment, who have low “cultural capital” to enable class mobility.

There are so many different religions in the world and so many people to fill them. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism make up the most populated religions in the world. I happen to not really take part in any of those religions. Most of my family is Roman Catholic and my distant relative, Raffaello Delle Nocche, is even up for sainthood. I feel the most accurate religion that I fall into is agnosticism. I am not really sure if God is real or not, but I do believe that he could be. I have experienced some hard times in my life that have needed God and I have prayed to him during those times. Other times however I question how God could allow so many terrible things to take place in everyday life.

It started off slow and by slow I mean really slow. My father was a deacon and my mother was the Sunday school teacher for the kids and adults, My Spirituality was something I don’t think much about as a kid. I was more in to Power Ranger and Ninja Turtle that anything else. My mom and dad tried to make god a part of my life but it don’t work. I was just a little kid and all I want was to play.

Gay Catholic Shares His Spiritual Journey in Critically Acclaimed Memoir The author, a long-time DignityUSA member, holds on to his Catholicism while affirming his homosexuality. Joseph Gentilini cannot openly express his homosexuality when growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it was still considered a mental disorder. When society became more accepting of LGBT persons, he wasted no time in expressing his true self, which brought him into a conflictual relationship with his parents – and his Catholic faith. Gentilini opens up about his spiritual journey in his memoir Hounded By God: A Gay Man’s Journey to Self-Acceptance, Love, and Relationship (Dog Ear Publishing, 2013).

I was born in Dallas, Texas but when I was 3 years old I was taken to my parents’ home country, Mexico. My mother took my younger sister and me to Mexico while my father stayed in the United States and worked to provide for us. I spend 6 years in Mexico and I went to school there. I had an amazing childhood in the place my parents were born and had the opportunity to grow up around my family and culture. I became a fond lover of the traditions and the peaceful life of what I consider my country. I have many amazing memories from living in Mexico. The way everything called for a celebration where everyone was invited. The dedication that every festival I attended showed. Simply all the traditions that even when I live miles away from Mexico have stuck with me, things I still celebrate with my family every year. I love to be able to call myself Mexican American and to be able to share my parents. My love for Mexican culture plays a role in my decision to want to go to Spain. I want to see where some of the customs I know originated from and see where my ancestors came from.

Prior to relocating it was so easy making my daily agenda without consulting God and presuming that it was acceptable. While in the transition of relocating though, the necessity of prioritizing and seeking God on a higher level became imminent. Once that transition period was completed I could see how my past behaviors warranted change. Through the hand of God, more in-filling of the Holy Spirit, understanding of his perspective, wisdom, increased knowledge, and peace facilitated the changes.

In going with the definition of how to construct the spiritual autobiography, I would start with the events, the people and the places that influenced the relationship with God or a higher being. According to Knight, those who were raised in a religious home their journey starts at birth and grows through age. (Knight, 2011) Parents who teach their children about God and who pray with them and worship with them have a close relationship with their God. Knight also states that should you find God later in life you may attribute that to a person or an event in your life. I would encourage someone to write down the people, places and events that influenced their religious journey and how that journey has brought them to the place in their life that they are today. For me personally, God fills my life and has provided me with Christian parents and four brothers and sisters who are also Christians. I would help someone write their autobiography by asking a lot of questions and writing their responses. It would be interesting to find out if, in their family they had the freedom to choose their own beliefs or if they were coerced into being what everyone else is. For instance, if I were interviewing someone from another country, there may be cultural differences in how each family practices their religion and going outside of that may be troublesome. Teachers and pastors as well as family all have a role to play in our lives and our beliefs, so do, the places we go such as

I must confess that I am not a map person. I find them overwhelming, confusing, and at times even boring. However, as we have mapped our way through the biblical narrative I have become more of a map person. I have been shown the light and now appreciate the intersection between a people’s way of life and their physical environment. In particular, through studying the lands of the Bible I have developed a respect for geography’s power to direct and ground us, to establish and sanctify us, to tell us who and what we are in terms of where we are as well where we are not. More to the point, I have wrestled with the underlying question of this class: How does place matter? And how does it matter for the biblical narrative? I would like to propose that places and regions hold significance to the story in terms of attachment, their bounding and containing, environmental transformation, and motion, which all impact group and personal identities. This is seen very profoundly in history of the fathers of faith and the Hebrew people as a whole.

The assignment to create our own religion for me was difficult. I found myself wanting to try and model the religion off Christianity. I wanted to be creative and come up with something that touched on different religions. The religion I created was the Friends religion, based on the television show Friends. I am a big fan of the show and know a lot about the characters and story so I felt I could mold that into a religion. It was not as easy as I thought it would be. I found it challenging to try and keep with the story line and make significant religious connections to the characters. I chose to use the brother and sister as to rival factions in the Friends religion both vying for Friends. In the show Ross is constantly meeting searching

I think so far in the short amount of time that I have been alive, which is only twenty four years, my spiritual journey has had many twist and turns. I think I have definitely gone through many changes so far, regarding my spirituality and my religion. I definitely think your spirituality and religion is a very important part of life, I know that when I haven’t been to church or really had a chance to explore my spirituality, especially for some time, I start to feel the need to reconnect. That way I can feel like I am a part of my religion and spirituality again, and I really feel better afterwards. This sounds weird but it’s almost like I feel whole again when I am able to reconnect, like all the pieces are back

I was born in North Sioux City, Iowa. I grew up there till the time I was seven. From age five to age seven, all I would eat was peanut butter and jelly. I refused to eat anything else. My sister was a year younger than me and was always getting into things. Hospital visit after hospital visit thanks to her. Other than that, my childhood memories are faint. The only other thing I remember is not being able to read picture books with all the other kindergarteners and having to read with the, at the time, scary 2nd graders. My parents got divorced when I was seven and we finally moved to Milford, Iowa. I strongly disliked it at first, but I made some awesome friends in 4th grade that stood by my side.

My journey with God started in February of 1993, when I went to a ladies’ conference in Columbus, Texas. It was while the speaker was explaining that she knew there were some of us out in the audience, who felt guilty about something they had done in their past, and they did not feel that God could forgive them for it. But then she quoted from God’s word; “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, not principalities, no things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39 NASB) The speaker continued on to say that all we need to do is

In the Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author provides us with a picture of an exemplary man in the person of Atticus Finch. Atticus is the father of the main character, Scout, and her brother Jem. He also practices law in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus deals with ridicule against him and his family and yet fulfils his roles as a father, brother, and lawyer very well. Atticus Finch is a devoted father, loving brother, and indiscriminate lawyer.

organizations such as nature conservationists and endangered species activists would feel inclined to take legal action. A public lawsuit would put the company in route to significant financial losses across the board, from boycotting clients, judge ordered reparations and ongoing sanctions that would change how their operations are implemented going forward. The results of an unethical business practice can only come forth if the head of the entity decides to turn a blind eye to what is happening within the organization. Dependent on the ethical stance of those leading the company, the concern for social responsibility will or will not be sizable.