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A religion is a set of beliefs and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.

In the frame of European religious thought, religions present a common quality, the "hallmark of patriarchal religious thought": the division of the world in two comprehensive domains, one sacred, the other profane.[2] Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, tradition, rituals, and scriptures are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion is also often described as a "way of life" or a Life stance.

The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. "Organized religion" generally refers to an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion with a prescribed set of beliefs, often taking the form of a legal entity (see religion-supporting organization). Other religions believe in personal revelation. "Religion" is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system," but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions.
Source: Wikipedia/Religion

VISION Statement & PURPOSE:

Source is the new, universal meme for any of the thousand names of God. Source is...I am... (Photo: Galaxy Eye)

"If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it's a waste of time looking for him further." - Gandhi

Spiritual growth and conscious evolution is best gained through direct experience, by connecting directly to Source within one's deepest sense of self and fostering loving relations with all beings.  Love is...I am...

"When we open our eyes to what is happening, even when it breaks our hearts, we discover our true size; for our heart, when it breaks open, can hold the whole universe. We discover how speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity." - Joanna Macy

Indigenous people, tribes and traditional ways of being connected to the earth and sky are the roots of all honoring relations and the great-grandmother of all religion.

"The ways of your ancestors are good. They cannot be blown away by the winds, because their roots reach deep into the soil." – Okot P'Bitek

Religion is any one of dozens of organized systems of belief about God from many traditions over the last 10,000 years. The best kept secret of all time is, when you look into the eyes of another, "There's only one of us!" (Image: Compunct)

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Featured Local Centers of Worship:

• Alliance Bible Chapel
  > 44 N 2nd St., Ste. 101 (541) 482-2656
• Ashland Bible Church
  > 400 Dead Indian Memorial Rd. (541) 482-8644
• Ashland Christian Fellowship
  > 50 W Hersey St. (541) 482-8539
• Ashland Church of the Nazarene
  > 1760 E Main St. (541) 482-1784
• Ashland Religious Centers and Centers of Worship
• Baha’i Faith
  > PO Box 508 (541) 552-1657/482-5194
• Calvary Baptist Church (Southern Baptist)
  > 2082 E Main St. (541)482-4605
•  Church of Ashland
  > 318 B St. (541) 482-1561
• Christian Missionary Alliance Bible Chapel
  > 748 Siskiyou Blvd. (541) 482-1425
• Chabad Jewish Center of Southern Oregon
  > 804 Hillview Dr. (541) 482-2778
• Church of Christ
  > 621 Park St. (541) 482-4635
• Church of Divine Grace
• Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
  > 111 Clay St., 1st Ward (541) 482-2548/2nd Ward (541) 482-4409
• Dechen Ling (Buddhist)
  > (541) 488-2308
• Family Life Bible Church/
  Pentecostal Church of God
  > 120 6th St. (541) 488-3136
• First Baptist Church of Ashland (Conservative)
  > 2004 Siskiyou Blvd. (541) 482-3836
• First Church of Christ Scientist
  > 1715 Ashland St. (541) 488-0854
• First Congregational Church-Ashland (United Church of Christ)
  > 717 Siskiyou Blvd. (541) 482-1981
• First Presbyterian Church of Ashland (USA)
  > Siskiyou & Walker (541) 482-3536
• First United Methodist Church of Ashland
  > 175 N Main St. (541) 482-3647
• Grace Lutheran Church
  > 660 Frances Lane (541) 482-1661
• Hare Krishna Society
  > (541) 482-8387
• Havurah Shir Hadash Jewish Community
  > 185 N Mountain Ave. (541) 488-7716
• Jehovah’s Witness
  > 700 N Main St. (541) 482-5125
• Kagyu Sukha Chöling
  > (541) 552-1769
• National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia
• Omega House: Campus Christian Ministry of SOU
  > 371 S Mountain Ave. (541) 488-2304
• Our Lady of the Mountain Catholic Church
  > 987 Hillview (541) 482-1146
• Qur’an Foundation
  > 1257 Siskiyou Blvd. #224 (541) 776-5968
• Rivergate Assembly of God
  > 188 Garfield St. (541) 482-2546
• Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
  > 87 4th St. (541) 482-4755
• Seventh-Day Adventist Church
  > 1650 Clarke (541) 488-2226
• Shepard's Way Foursquare Church
  > 599 E Main St. (541) 482-1227, http://www.shepherdswayfoursquarechurch.com/
• South Mountain Friends Meeting (Quakers)
  > 543 S. Mountain (541) 482-0814
• Sufi Heart Circle
  > (541) 482-4902
• Tashi Choling (Buddhist)
  > 2001 Colestin Rd (541) 488-9267 or (541) 488-9660
• Temple Emek Shalom & Rogue Valley Jewish Community
  > 1800 E Main St. (541) 488-2909
• The Beloved Community
• Trinity Episcopal Church
  > 44 N 2nd St., Ste. 101 (541) 482-2656
• Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Rogue Valley
  > 87 4th St. (541) 482-4755
• Unity in Ashland
  > 185 N. Mountain Ave. at Havurah Shir Hadash (541) 488-9220
• Valley Bible Fellowship
  > 616 S. Pacific Hwy., Talent (541)535-6322

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