Posted in jesus on Mar 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Andrew Harvey is an interesting writer whom I had the chance to see in a small conference in Austin, Texas a few years ago. I’d enjoyed much of his book, The Son of Man, and enjoyed hearing him in a room with, perhaps some 40 people. Harvey also wrote the introduction to Shambhala’s excellent Teachings [...]
Posted in faith, jesus on Jun 3rd, 2008 17 Comments »
“Discovered in Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi Library, the Gospel of Thomas was long considered irrelevant to the study of Jesus’ teachings. Stevan Davies’ influential The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom overturned this view, and enabled the Gospel of Thomas to be taken seriously as a source for the earliest [...]
Posted in christianity, faith, jesus on May 31st, 2008 4 Comments »
from the very interesting site NonAgnostic. Technorati Tags: christianity, fundamentalist, jesus, spiritual,
Posted in jesus on Apr 9th, 2008 3 Comments »
Tibetan Storyteller Joseph Campbell, that marvelous expert on mythologies of the world, was once discussing his new computer, and he spoke back at a time when personal computers were often populated with names like Osborne, Commodore and others. He was asked if his computer suggested any kind of a mythological meaning to him. He replied, [...]
Posted in God, faith, jesus on Mar 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
Easter is over, although, in a very real sense, it’s never over. The miracle behind it is ongoing and profound, and occasionally peeks out at us, hoping to be seen. I’m not at all sure that if you put a video camera outside the tomb where Jesus was buried the story told in the New [...]
Posted in general, jesus on Feb 18th, 2008 5 Comments »
I’ve always been intrigued with the idea of what I’d do if I had one of Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machines, the fascinating gizmo that Mr. Peabody and Sherman had back on the Bullwinkle Show which I watched when I was a kid. It was a long way from Dr. Who’s very cool Tardis, I admit, [...]
Posted in jesus on Feb 13th, 2008 9 Comments »
From the great Frederick Buechner: “The story of Jesus if full of darkness as well as of light. It is a story that hides more than it reveals. It is the story of a mystery we must never assume we understand and that comes to us breathless and broken with unspeakable beauty at the heart [...]
Posted in bible, jesus on Dec 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the biggest problems in either trying to be a Christian or trying to approach Christianity without any sort of background in it at all is that Jesus’ teachings have so permeated our world that we are apt to dismiss the familiar aspects of his words or stories. We hear them now through filters [...]
Posted in jesus on Nov 25th, 2007 5 Comments »
“Every once in a while, life can be very eloquent. You go along from day to day not noticing very much, not seeing or hearing very much, and then all of a sudden, when you least expect it, very often something speaks to you with such power that it catches you off guard, makes you [...]
Posted in God, faith, jesus on Nov 23rd, 2007 7 Comments »
Brian McLaren recounts a story by Athanasius, a sharp guy from the 4th Century, that’s worth pondering. It comes from McLaren’s work a Generous Or+hodoxy. “Once upon a time there was a good and kind king who had a great kingdom with many cities. In one distant city, people took advantage of the freedom the [...]
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