Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Books on Oct 19th, 2016
evil’s lie You can prove anything you want from a single verse or passage in the Bible. It is a dangerous document, as history has shown Once you start feeling sorry for yourself, you will soon Find someone else to blame, accuse or attack–and with impunity! It settles the dust quickly, and it takes away […]
Posted in Books on Oct 19th, 2016
the razor’s edge: knowing and not knowing When religion is not doing its job well, almost every other aspect of society also will be sick. When your God image is true, your self-image also will be true. If your operative God image is toxic, you probably will be toxic too, and it is that toxicity […]
Posted in Books on Oct 12th, 2016
Solitude and Silence: The Journey Begins Traveling Companions – Desert Mothers and Fathers Why is silence necessary for listening, and what happens when we enter into the silence of solitary prayer? We begin to let go of ourselves, which allows us to hear God Our task is made even more difficult by the most obvious […]
Posted in Books on Oct 11th, 2016
good power and bad power Good power is what Ken Wilber, in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality calls “growth hierarchies,” which are needed to protect children, the poor, the entire animal world and all those without power. Bad power is power that is used merely to protect, maintain and promote oneself Psychologically and spiritually, there is no […]
Posted in Books on Oct 11th, 2016
the boxing ring because morality in particular is a common counterfeit for religion, and often substitutes as a false absolute, we will see that Paul takes law on in a special way law, prophets, wisdom “You must learn the meaning of the law very well, so you will know how to disobey it properly.” You […]
Posted in Books on Oct 5th, 2016
people who have faces In calling forth such freedom and consciousness, and even love, in humanity, God is actually making possible a certain kind of equality between Divinity and humanity, as strange and impossible as that might sound. As Deuteronomy states it, God is creating “a people peculiarly his own” (26:18) pattern in the Bible: […]
Posted in Books on Oct 5th, 2016
getting the “who” right Our core is original blessing, not original sin. This says that our starting point is totally positive, or as the first chapter of the Bible says, it is “very good” (1:31). We do have someplace good to go home to “humans are like piles of manure, covered over by Christ.” Such […]
Posted in Books on Oct 5th, 2016
information is not necessarily transformation “Overexplanation separates us from astonishment” — Eugene Ionesco “The world can pigeonhole any idea,” he said. They are easily discounted and “dodged” When God appeared on the scene, it was not felt to be good news by most people; it was bad news. The sense was, “Who has to die […]
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Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light