I was experiencing a very difficult year as a seventeen-year-old senior in high school. Rather than turn inward and withdraw socially and emotionally, I had a novel interest in developing a functioning Interfaith Club. I envisioned students (in the 1960’s) of various local faiths (denominations) meeting and peacefully sharing their religious perspectives, thereby helping to foster and promote tolerance and a peaceful coexistence. In those days, church groups tended to socially segregate. Despite some local influential adult approval, the professional clergy was very non-supportive. In those days, they saw Interfaith as a front for subversive activities. As a result, the school withdrew its support and the proposed reality vaporized. Apparently, the idea only retreated and lay dormant somewhere deep within my mind. (1967- 1968)
Apparently, GOD liked the Idea, . . .
Almost four Decades ago, I had a personal spiritual experience of GOD. The Voice said: “You’re in the Presence of the GOD of your fathers. I call you to Follow ME. I will lead you. You will share whatever I reveal.” . . . From then onwards, my life changed. The Voice placed me upon the Interspiritual Road. . . (March 28, 1986)
As time passed, I became disconnected and uncertain of myself. Then, the day came when ’The Call’ came again! Immediately, I recognized the Presence as It said: “Did I not call you long ago?” I responded: “I am not worthy to do Your Sacred Work! My history is unfit for Your Divine Calling. I am not a young man anymore and am too old for such a huge task.” The Voice replied: “I want you to do the things that I ask of you! I will guide you and make the ways open to you.” (August 14, 2013)
Day of Divine Committal and Personal Commitment to Instructions (My Calling and Ordination by and to ‘The Words of the Divine).
Inside Grace Cathedral, San Francisco: The Voice spoke again: “I call you, now, to create a Presence of NEWNESS . . . a PLACE where My Voice of LOVE has been acknowledged as separate and separated from the divisive Institutions of human influences. You are assigned with the task of reassembling IT from sources found throughout the Ages and around the World. (May 3, 2014)
. . . awaiting Seminary doors opened for me in New York City and further studies concluded, successfully, in California . . . (September, 2014 – October, 2019)
I became a Wayfaring Interspiritual Seeker of God’s Love. I truly sense that more and more will be discovered and assimilated. I have accepted the personal costs of committing to this particular search and have often wondered where it shall ultimately lead.
(Arthur Van Slyke, Jr., D.S.S., D.D. – Co-Founding Minister)
One of the results has been the loving and careful creation of Loving God Interspiritual Center and Institute. Loving God Interspiritual Center is an actual physical presence located within the Greater Houston Area. Our CENTER is exclusively devoted to presenting a PRACTICAL INTERSPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY which is based upon pragmatic examinations and applications of Love expressed through a Reasoned Compassion for Life’s challenging situations. We examine other spiritual philosophies and extract expressions of God’s Loving Kindness for purposes of assemblage and applicability.
As a result, Our CENTER should be thought of as syncretistic in its overall work. It is accurate to note that we treat the Proper Noun: GOD, as either singular or plural, male and/or female and use these approaches in our CENTER’S CLASSES, as we study and discuss worldwide spiritual and religious philosophies. Our objective is to assemble, present and teach from an ever-growing repository of loving spiritual knowledge and principles.
Loving God Interspiritual Center unconditionally supports and promotes inquiring, Interspiritual Communications/Dialogues among our classroom participants. We focus upon transcending cultural and historical barriers. We believe that a peaceful coexistence, as the norm, is a worthy goal.
Loving God Interspiritual Center and Institute’s trademarked starburst logo clearly represents and expresses our conceptual ‘Interspiritual Model’ and easily symbolizes its institutional philosophy. The arrows pointing inwardly portray God’s unconditional Divine Love that continuously enfolds everyone. The area in the center figuratively represents the natural conscious receptivity that can exist within any person, unless the individual is psychically incapable. The center accommodates the Presence of God, also. The outward arrows represent the responses that a person may choose to freely express. Also, these may include any co-authored responses of God, referred to as our Intuitive Higher Consciousness.
As has been stated, Loving God Interspiritual Center and Institute acknowledges that the depth and ways of God’s Mind are endless – that additional insights will be revealed to those who are spiritually receptive to seeing, hearing and intuitively receiving them. The Center encourages all people to actively and continuously pursue spiritual knowledge, experiences and development throughout their lifetimes.
Listed below are Loving God Interspiritual Center and Institutes’ preparatory acknowledgements for acquiring an unfolding and durable Interspiritual Educational Experience:
- God is transcendent yet always ever-present (i.e., panentheistic).
- God is Unconditional Love.
- God is Compassionate.
- The Wisdom of God is Forever Endless in depth and latitude.
- God’s Guidance consistently addresses all issues and practices of morality and ethics.
- God welcomes every request for Guidance, Assistance and Wisdom, as we seek solutions to perplexing moral-ethical dilemmas.
- God’s Guidance can be personally received through intuitive realizations and insights that unfold into revealing moments of emotional-spiritual discovery.
- More will be revealed over the passage of time, as we further develop emotionally and spiritually.
Loving God Interspiritual Center’s online podcasts present opportunities for members of the public-at-large to hear and assess practical Interspiritual presentations. Loving God Interspiritual CENTER hopes to reach as many listeners as possible through its podcasts. You will notice that the typical broadcasts are brief and concise (30 minutes, more or less), unless the topic requires considerably more time to be thoroughly examined. Regardless of length, each presentation is purposefully designed to offer any listener with: ‘A time well spent!!!’
