Many scholars believe that the central claim of the Bible, is that the very character of God is “Love and Compassion,” (Exodus 34:6).
Under the lash of the kind of suffering outlined in my last post it is hardly surprising that many people have cried out to God in utter despair, perhaps for the last time, as their faith gets permanently swallowed whole, by the rage and pain of their suffering. There is a branch of theology called […]
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Taking the mystique out of everyday mystic practice may not be the easiest of tasks, but it is a necessary one. The mystic descriptor tends to lend itself to remote images of wacky out-there folk, doing their decidedly odd spiritual thing, far removed from the rest of us mere mortals. The mystic goes to the
One of the oft repeated idioms of one of my former spiritual teachers was, “God is invisibly present amongst us.” This turns out to be a profoundly scriptural formula for the ‘Unseen God,’ found in both Hebrew and Christian Scripture. I have written elsewhere in this blog about the thorough Jewishness of all aspects of
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