One Caring Foot
The Spirit seems to work best underground. When aboveground, humans start fighting about it. You can call this grace, the indwelling Holy Spirit, or just evolution toward union (which we…
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No Shame
We must learn how to recognize the positive flow and to distinguish it from the negative resistance within ourselves. It takes years, I think. If a voice comes from accusation…
Not a Punitive God
In his critique of his father and uncles, Jung recognized that many humans had become reflections of the punitive God they worshiped. A forgiving God allows us to recognize the…
Transformation Through Suffering
The supreme irony of life is that this voice of Christ works through — and alongside of — what always seems like unwholeness and untruth! God insists on incorporating the…
Waking Up
Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it’s more about waking up than about cleaning up. Early-stage religion tends…
No Stingy God Here!
Strangely, many Christians today limit God’s provident care to humans, and very few of them at that. How different we are from Jesus, who extended the divine generosity to sparrows,…
Giving Up Control
Just because you do not have the right word for God does not mean you are not having the right experience. From the beginning, YHWH let the Jewish people know…
Favorites?
We must be honest and humble about this: Many people of other faiths, like Sufi masters, Jewish prophets, many philosophers, and Hindu mystics, have lived in light of the Divine…
Exclusion Excluded
The truly one, holy, catholic and undivided church has not existed for a thousand years now, with many tragic results. We are ready to reclaim it again, but this time…
Radical Solidarity
The point of the Christian life is not to distinguish oneself from the ungodly, but to stand in radical solidarity with everyone and everything else. This is the full, final,…