“We are all people walking around shining like the sun.” – Thomas Merton. There is a beautiful and yet strangely ironic tale told by the modern mystic Thomas Merton. He was away for a day from his cloistered existence as a hermit Trappist monk—They’re seriously hardcore isolationists, those Trappist fellas—Out and about he had ventured, […]
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“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.” – Thomas Merton. If we are looking for a moniker for the living Divine, the “God of Peace” (Yahweh-Shalom) is a real humdinger. It occurs many times in the Bible, and in Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic writing more broadly. There have always been people who
“The best thing of all is God is with us.” – John Wesley. Eventually, on my journey, ravaged and broken as it has been, I found myself all out of self-sufficiency cards. Literally broke, life in tatters, and spiritually smashed to smithereens. I had a hole in the soul you could drive a truck through.
“Seeking the female face of God releases divine mystery from its age-old patriarchal cage so that God can be truly God.” – Elizabeth Johnson. Anyone paying attention can pick up on the fact that God is most often referred to historically as He. This is pervasive, and especially true, among cultures where the Abrahamic faiths
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