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.
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 Fools who are Holy, almost inevitably turnout to be seriously fallen characters. These days I realize that the Spirit has a regular habit of taking me toward that […]
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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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It may well be that there is no better place to start my blogging life, than with this mind bending paradox, “When I am weak, I am strong” (2 Cor 12:10). Penned by that wacky out-there Jewish mystic Paul of Tarsus, two thousand years ago. Here was a fella who knew all about the game
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So here we go, off and running on this blogging adventure. Little did I know, nearly a quarter of a century ago, when a broken man, I made my first faltering steps into the spiritual life, that one day, far off in the future, I would write about spirituality. But such are the vagaries that
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