Questions vs Answers, Part 4 …Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me. Matthew 25:40 One of the ways to handle an issue is to reframe it as a problem. Once an issue has been stated … Continue reading
Podcast of Questions vs Answers, Part 3
Questions vs Answers, Part 3
Questions vs Answers, Part 3 …and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen. Exodus … Continue reading Questions vs Answers, Part 3
Podcast of Questions vs Answers, Part 2
Questions vs Answers, Part 2
Questions vs Answers, Part 2 “You insist on explaining everything as if the whole world were composed of things that can be explained…Has it ever occurred to you that only a few things in this world can be explained your way?” Don Juan Matus[1] Our desire for clear-cut answers to deep and difficult questions, and … Continue reading Questions vs Answers, Part 2
Podcast of Questions vs Answers
Questions vs Answers
Questions vs Answers Of course you don’t understand it. If you understood it, it wouldn’t be what you’re looking for. It would just be one more thing you understand. James Finley[1] One of the significant points of distinction between Christianity and churchianity has to do with the degree to which one believes we can be … Continue reading Questions vs Answers
Podcast of Reconciliation vs Retribution, Part 4
Reconciliation vs Retribution, Part 4
Reconciliation vs Retribution, Part 4 Grace is what we call what is left over after the scouring of the self, the dying to the self…Grace comes to us in the flesh, through the spaces and forms and contents of our human life…Grace is so mixed up in the stuff of human life that it cannot … Continue reading Reconciliation vs Retribution, Part 4
Contemplating Grace 