Among the recurring themes in my posts is that embracing weakness and vulnerability rather than power is spirituality 101. This is not happenstance, it is nurtured by experience more than hypothesis, practice rather than theory, and a consequent abiding conviction that the spiritual ethics of humility in practice, active justice, and doing compassion & love, […]
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My last two posts were concerned with two brief passages from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. This post continues to draw from that same deep well. I like to think I am a ‘Grace of God guy,’ I mean, a fella like me can make very little other claim. Like the mystic prophet Paul,
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I just couldn’t move on from that trouble prone, first century, Jewish misfit mystic, Paul, without a few more words regarding his approach to power. “Power is made perfect in weakness,” he dramatically declares (2 Cor 12:9). Not bad from a fella who was destined to become arguably the second most important figure ever in the
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Amongst the points I have stressed in my previous posts about pacifism, Blessed are the peacemakers, and Christian pacifists; is the inescapable conclusion, that if adopted as a way of being in the world, pacifism requires extreme self-sacrifice. The metaphor of walking toward the cross is entirely applicable here. And none more so than the
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