Sometimes you’ve just gotta get away with the pixies to see the real deal of the world. There is no doubt that religious sensibility has been in steep decline for decades now in the West. The much studied sociologist Max Weber had effectively predicated this in 1917, with his oft quoted and deeply insightful observation. […]
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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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