I have come to believe that there are few things more expressive of a seriously lived spiritual life than ‘solidarity.’ To walk the long lonesome mile with the multitude of shoeless ones, in this beautiful but broken world, is where the real fruit of the mystic endeavor fully ripens. Feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson captures the […]
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Back in 1974, a fella called Nick Lowe wrote a song called “What’s so funny ‘bout’ peace love and understanding.” When it comes to Christian Pacifism, it is quite frankly no laughing matter. Perhaps the mention of Martin Luther King Jr, one of Christian pacifists most famous sons, immediately brings this into focus. To adopt
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It may well be that there is no better place to start my blogging life, than with this mind bending paradox, “When I am weak, I am strong” (2 Cor 12:10). Penned by that wacky out-there Jewish mystic Paul of Tarsus, two thousand years ago. Here was a fella who knew all about the game
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So here we go, off and running on this blogging adventure. Little did I know, nearly a quarter of a century ago, when a broken man, I made my first faltering steps into the spiritual life, that one day, far off in the future, I would write about spirituality. But such are the vagaries that
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