{"id":1027,"date":"2019-09-18T20:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2019-09-19T01:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T01:49:06","slug":"with-birrel-walsh-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/with-birrel-walsh-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;With&#8221; &#8211; Birrell Walsh, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1028\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/With.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/With.jpg 960w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/With-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/With-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/With-240x145.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this message, delivered at Hillside, an Urban Sanctuary (a ministry of the Swedenborgian Church of N.A.), Birrell Walsh, PhD, invites us to consider the practice of &#8220;With-ness&#8221; and how &#8220;being present&#8221; relates to the fundamentals of Swedenborgian spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for a printable PDF version of the message:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/With_-Birrell-Walsh-PhD.pdf\">&#8220;With&#8221; &#8211; Birrell Walsh, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-574 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Birrell-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Birrell-1.jpg 633w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Birrell-1-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/>Birrell Walsh, PhD is a writer and scholar of comparative religion and mysticism. He has written several novels, as well as poetry and the book <em>\u201cPraying for Others\u201d<\/em>. He is a regular contributor to &#8220;Our Daily Bread&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Birrell recently became involved in the Swedenborgian community at Hillside, an Urban Sanctuary, in El Cerrito, California, where he lives with his wife Nancy.<\/p>\n<p>To explore more of his work, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/btwreviews.com\/\">http:\/\/btwreviews.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this message, delivered at Hillside, an Urban Sanctuary (a ministry of the Swedenborgian Church of N.A.), Birrell Walsh, PhD, invites us to consider the practice of &#8220;With-ness&#8221; and how &#8220;being present&#8221; relates to the fundamentals of Swedenborgian spirituality. &nbsp; Click below for a printable PDF version of the message: &#8220;With&#8221; &#8211; Birrell Walsh, PhD &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/with-birrel-walsh-phd\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;With&#8221; &#8211; Birrell Walsh, PhD<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}