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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If you looking for a mission statement, that defines the life and work of the Galilean, the ultimate ‘God with Skin on man,’ that they nailed to a tree. It is all beautifully crystallized in Luke’s gospel, right at the get go of his modus operandi. The ethic supreme that must be pursued above all
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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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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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