Rev. Robert Mills, Spiritual Humanist
My personal spirituality is spiritual humanism, believing the human spirit is universal and constantly growing. I am a ordained minister , political activist, socialist anarchist, and human rights advocate.
You can contact me or find out more about our community and ministry by emailing me at minister@cyberbsolutions.net.
My phone number is 510-292-1160, or you can call me on the skype number at 707-236-8057.
address: 3140 MLK jr Way Oakland Ca 94609
I will be posting important urgent news items dealing with the issues of peace, and human rights, various topics on meditation, prayer, spirituality, and philosophy. And in time, will include web 2.0 types services on this page.
I have posted a new ministerial blog site.
As I have retired for the most part from technology consulting (will continue to support digital divide issues and an open free Internet), I will expand and become more involved as a minister and 'leader' of the Logos Institute.
I have obtained a Spiritual Counselor title from Universal Life Church as well as the Doctorate of Divinity. Other credentials are coming from Universal Ministries as well.
So in addition to the traditional services, I now provide spiritual counseling and direction for anyone needing this.
Having renewed the Charter status with Universal Ministries, and in the process of incorporating as a Congregational member of the Universal Life Church.
We have the full legal title of Logos Institute of Spiritual Humanism, a congregation of the Universal Life Church, Chartered with Universal Ministries. I also continue to be an ordained minister of the Church of Spiritual Humanism. I believe that having these formal affiliations can help to build unity and provide the broadest support to those who become members of the Logos Institute. I would welcome having more traditional affiliations, such as with Unitarians, independent Christian churches and progressive religious organizations.
Currently there is a community house, supported by each of the 10 members living here in Oakland, the primary ministry includes building community, advocacy of human rights, promotion of non-violence and social justice, and working to build religious unity. Becoming incorporated as a Congregation of the Universal Life Church will enable this ministry to ordain new ministers, obtain grants, receive donations and raise funds as a religious non-profit.
One of the main ministries has been advocacy and hospitality work
for the homeless. I have been actively involved with this work for
30 years.
During the last three years, a community house which also
offers hospitality to a very limited number of homeless people has
emerged and grown. It was started by a formerly homeless man, who lived
in Berkeley. His soul mate of the last three years passed away from
struggling with a lengthy illness this past year. Since then, there have many who were close friends
and coworkers in peace, justice and homeless work; of mine, to have passed on
But I want to especially honor Vicki, by establishing a trust fund in her memory and from
this trust fund, property will be purchased for the community. It will
be called the Vicki Holden Memorial Hospitality House, to serve as the
community house and provide services to a limited number of people.
Currently we are a community of formerly homeless people who are
disabled, but govern ourselves, and we support each other through limited fixed incomes. This trust fund will be critical for the on going daily operation of the House and the various ministries we have. Please contact me, if you would like to
help us in any way
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.
Praxis Project
Praxis trains our partner organizations and provides research, technical assistance and financial support to tackle issues impacting the well being of communities.
In recent years, national and local policymaking has focused on the punishment and surveillance of individuals – disproportionately affecting the poor, the disenfranchised and people of color.
To counter discriminatory and punitive measures, Praxis works with local organizations to shift policy decisions toward solutions that confront the root causes of community problems while holding corporations and other institutions accountable for their role in causing these problems.
Our priority at Praxis is to form partnerships with organizations whose constituents are disproportionately affected by social ills and to help erase the nation’s health-justice gap.
Who I am. I am an ordained minister with Universal Ministries and offer the following service at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logos_institute/
Blogging Page
Privately I provide various ministerial services such as non-violence consulting, altrnative spiritual direction, weddings and ther traditional services.
If you would like more information about becoming a legally ordained minister, feel free to write me at Ministry
Logos Institute of Spiritual Humanism
The Logos Institute of Spiritual Humanism is an online community of seekers, activists and all those who have been considered outside the mainstream areas of spirituality and religion. It is also a community living in common in Oakland California.
I welcome again all those who have already become members. Feel free to contribute by posting messages, uploading files, and photos and links.
Those who are looking for a spiritual home, please join, and make your contributions and help make this a vibrant community.
In time, we may grow as a community and as individuals. Through sharing we can grow, even at moments of disagreement and conflict.
To make this work, all individuals who join should participate and share. Please feel free to use this group to promote the spiritual
perspective of Spiritual Humanism. Be advise though, that this group is established for sharing and dialog. Violence, bigotry, racism, sexism, and all manner of other prejudice will not be tolerated. Otherwise it is an open community.
Membership is open to everyone who agrees with the principles below.
Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logos_institute/
Spiritual Humanism
Spiritual Humanism believes that love is the greatest and most
import thing in life. They believe that love can heal all things and
bring piece to a troubled world. Love is the greatest and most
important spirituality there is.
We assert that humanism will:
I. affirm life rather than deny it;
II. seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from them;
III. endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for
all, not merely for the few.
By this positive morale and intention humanism will be guided, and
from this perspective and alignment the techniques and efforts of
humanism will flow.
So stand the theses of spiritual humanism. Though we consider the
religious forms and ideas of our fathers no longer adequate, the quest
for the good life is still the central task for mankind. Man is at
last becoming aware that he alone is responsible for the realization
of the world of his dreams, that he has within himself the power for
its achievement. He must set intelligence and will to the task, and he
must love all others that share this great universe with him.
From the Spiritual Humanist Manifesto.
Spiritual Humanism is a spirituality based upon reason, compassion and truth.To strive to be a global family is the highest spiritual practice we can do for each other on the local level. We seek to nurture an informed faith in non-violently resolving conflict, nurturing friendship with all of the natural order, resolving by thought and action to transform strife into peace and to promote the dignity and self worth of the individual person.
What we seek is truth. Truth is a force, as Mohandas Gandhi would promote. The truth force (satyagraha) can be a core teaching and practice for us and a common ground for living. A second core teaching is ahimsa, or pledging to do 'no harm'. A third core teaching is the sarvodaya or constructive program. Providing the means to reconstruct society through truth, equity and self sufficiency.
Principles:
- The inherent 'sacredness' of all living things.
- The highest evolutionary stage of humanity includes understanding, compassion and non-violence.
- We must reject war and violence as the means of resolving conflict.
- There are rudimentary human rights to abide by, as spelled out in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and other documents, and which can be promoted in each national and local community.
- We can embrace reason and logic while cultivating intuition and passion as natural parts of being human.
- We must reject religious intolerance, racism, violence of all forms, sexism, homophobia, classism and all manner of economic injustice and oppression.
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