I know almost everyone says that blogging is over. Conventional wisdom suggests that blogs have been replaced by 280 characters on Twitter, pictures on Instagram, podcasts, and a multitude of other social media options that I do not begin to understand. But, I am hopelessly stubborn and find it hard to give up on lost causes. So I have blogged on.
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In his book River of Compassion, Bede Griffiths suggests that it might be possible to become an instrument by which the endless cycle of fear is broken.
It is a timely and entirely legitimate question. The church has been implicated throughout history in a dark cornucopia of misdeeds. Why would anyone want to stay in the church?
Read the rest of this entry »I don’t like pain. I don’t like it in any form, when I experience it myself, or when I see it in others.
Read the rest of this entry »I am disappointed in you. The outcome was such a disappointment. I am sure I am going to be disappointed. I am disappointed in myself.
Read the rest of this entry »In a recent post on her blog Sheila Kennedy asks in the title the question, “Common ground? With whom?” It is a good question.
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[The solitary] must renounce the blessing of every convenient illusion that absolves him from responsibility when he is untrue to his deepest self and to his inmost truth – the image of God in his own soul. TM, “Notes”
In the world I inhabit, I tend to view society as egalitarian, with every person accorded equal opportunity to prosper and thrive.
Read the rest of this entry »It is hard (impossible ?) not to feel heartsick at the state of the Christian church these days.
Read the rest of this entry »The Bible is full of violence – troubling, painful, angry, ugly violence. The Bible shows us innocent suffering, unjust retribution, harsh vengeance and senseless massacre.
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