Unseen but ever-present, essential element of all life. Pertaining to the living God, who is love and compassion.
Although not universally held, there is strong and growing biblical scholarship to support the view that Spirit or Holy Spirit is feminine.
Theologians have – let’s just call it – a bit of a thing for Dostoevsky. I first noticed the term holy fool in one of his books.1 These days I realize that the living Spirit has a regular habit of taking me toward that which I am absolutely intended to see. And this Holy fool […]
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Messed up badly, broken again Sometimes we live, sometimes we die, sometimes we cry. — Van Morrison. I come from a long line of hot-blooded Irish men with extremely short fuses. Both my father and his father before him were fine and decent good-hearted men, but boy could they blow! Tsunamis of rage could erupt
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The long tale of the Great-Spirit At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. — Black Elk. The telling of stories about the Creator or Great-Spirit may be as old as humanity itself. I recently became curious about this ancient and
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I know a priest who has the unusual habit, for a Roman-collared fella, of always replacing ‘He’ with ‘She’ when reading biblical texts that refer to the Spirit. I don’t know if any of my more hard-line fellow pew sitting comrades have reported this apparent lapse to the powers that be yet, but it wouldn’t
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