The domain of Holy fools who listen and talk to God in the now. The mystic, takes a constant mingle with the divine and thus becomes ever-more human in solidarity with all. It’s all about awareness of the potential for heaven on earth in the present . This is the ultimate mystical vision, intensely practical and requiring affirmative action. It’s a doing thing! Not just a vision thing.
I recently wept, as I listened to song on YouTube. This is not an entirely unknown phenomenon for this old mystic. Actually, while walking the walk with Living God during the last twenty-five years, it has become more like a regular occurrence. The song in question was a cover of a Dylan classic called, “Not […]
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I recall one of my theology professors using the phrase “already, but not yet,” to explain the concept of the kingdom of heaven on earth. For Christians this has already arrived in one important sense with the deep incarnation of the Christ.1 The God with skin on man from Galilee was all about the incoming
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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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