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The quick comeback of Amma Sarah

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2019-06-27

A story is told of Amma Sarah, one of the many desert mothers during the early centuries of Christianity, who refused to be denigrated for being a woman: “Another time, two old men, great anchorites, came to the district of Pelusia to visit her. When they arrived one said to…
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The parable of the Good Witch

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2019-06-26

A reimagining of the parable of the Good Samaritan by the Naked Pastor
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The minimalism of the desert monks

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2019-06-25

The abbot Theodore of Pherme had three fine codices. And he came to the abbot Macarius and said to him. “I have three codices, and I profit by the reading of them. And the brethren also come seeking to read them, and they themselves profit. Tell me, therefore, what I…
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Praising the God of Winter

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2019-06-24

God of Winter, Springtime Summer and Autumn, God of Light God of Warmth God of Love God of Potential God of Hope Who in the darkest days Enters our lives As you entered this world Bringing Love Healing and Wholeness All: We praise your glorious name! – Author Unknown
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Refuting racist misreadings of the Curse of Ham

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2019-06-22

Robert Boyle—a seventeenth-century scientist who also was a theologian and a devout Christian—refuted the idea that blackness was caused by the curse of Ham, in his book Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664). He wrote: “And not only we do not find expressed in the Scripture, that the Curse meant…
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Poseidon in the Bible

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2019-06-21

A curious verse grabbed my attention yesterday: Ezekiel 28:2. In it God commands the prophet Ezekiel to declare to the prince of Tyre, “‘In the pride of your heart you say, ‘I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.’ But…
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Contemplating salvation in the depths of depression

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2019-06-20

As I grapple with my own depression I am reminded that there is an already / not yet tension in the way the apostles spoke of salvation. They had witnessed the resurrection of Jesus, but the resurrection of the dead was still to come. They had witnessed the defeat of…
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In praise of the Holy Spirit

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2019-06-18

HOLY SPIRIT, making life alive, moving in all things, root of all created being, cleansing the cosmos of every impurity, effacing guilt, anointing wounds. You are lustrous and praiseworthy life, You waken and re-awaken everything that is. Amen. Author Unknown
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Exploring the Macrocosm and Microcosm

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2019-06-07

I thought I’d put together a little primer on esoteric Christian anthropology and cosmology. Christian Anthropology In Christian theology, there are two competing views regarding the nature of humanity. The “tripartite view” holds that humanity is a composite of three distinct components: body, soul, and spirit. In contrast the “bipartite…
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Good News regarding racism

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2019-06-06

The good news regarding racism is that God will have the last word, not the racists. The vision of Revelation is that all races will be gathered in by God in the end, with no exclusion on the basis of ethnicity or culture. Our task is to bear witness to…
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