The Hebrew prophets were especially focused on calling the Israelites back into covenant relationship with Yahweh (God). Of particular concern to the prophets, were breaches of covenant resulting from ‘injustice to the poor’ and ‘apostasy’ (worship of other gods).
If, like me, you regularly howl at the moon, you might just be suffering from a severe case of what the Hebrews called hard-heartedness. In my last post I identified the emphasis that Aristotle, the father of western philosophy, placed on the heart, as the “seat of the soul and the source of reason”. When […]
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Among the recurring themes in my posts is that embracing weakness and vulnerability rather than power is spirituality 101. This is not happenstance, it is nurtured by experience more than hypothesis, practice rather than theory, and a consequent abiding conviction that the spiritual ethics of humility in practice, active justice, and doing compassion & love,
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My last two posts were concerned with two brief passages from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. This post continues to draw from that same deep well. I like to think I am a ‘Grace of God guy,’ I mean, a fella like me can make very little other claim. Like the mystic prophet Paul,
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