There is a spiritual up-rising, sweeping through the land and its happening amongst the non-religious post-modern youth of this age. We are now livings in a time of ‘all-inclusive universal spirituality.’ This happy state of affairs is a fortunate derivative, a spirit freeing spin-off, if you will, of the political and cultural phenomenon known as […]
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Without understanding the depth and meaning of myth, there is little hope of ever grasping the beauty and richness of the text in the Bible, because—not to put too fine a point on it—Hebrew and Christian scripture is chock-a-block full of myth story telling. The notion that we can discount myth as mere fiction and
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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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