The significance of the moniker Nazarene, which was used to describe both Jesus and some of his early Jewish followers, is that it denotes a complete outsider. Someone from the back of beyond, out on the margins, completely removed from, and nonviolently opposed to, social and religious elites whenever and wherever they occur.
“Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Recently, the little place I had been renting for many years got sold out from under me. Then, within days, I fell victim to a phone banking scam and all my limited saving disappeared in an instant. The very next day my old […]
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Sing like no one’s listening…, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth. – Mark Twain. Oh, to live and move and be like that! To be so free from the bondage of ego-centric constraint that we could live with complete abandon, here in the now, in Heaven on Earth. In truth, despite years of committed misfit mystic practice, I’m not there yet,
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