It’s amazing how quickly a spirituality of subtraction becomes evident to people. I believe we’re in the process of recognizing our shadow side, our addiction to addition.
Month: November 2017
Incarnation
No monotheistic Jewish girl at that time could ever have been prepared for the Incarnation. God is perfectly transcendent and beyond everything. And if she believed the rabbis’ teaching that God comes in words, in the Torah and in the Commandments, then nothing prepared her for believing that God could become flesh and body. The Incarnation had nothing to do with theology. It was rather about vulnerability, about letting go, about emptiness, about self-surrender –and none of that is in the head.
Nothing Gained By Accusing
The painful mystery of things, the injustice of it all, the mixed blessing, just is. Nothing is gained by accusing or avoiding, except a false sense of control.
Israel Not Rome
Americans often use the fall of Rome as historical warning to not take for granted the United States. Christians however, ought to look to the biblical state of Israel for it’s warning against seeking a theocratic nation state. The reign of God is not a nation, but a society and the understanding of this became blurred as soon as Constantine made Christianity the official religion of empire.
Learning From Others, Seeking The Way 