The Emmaus Path: Easter Happens While We Walk It
“Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and pierced the air with his cries: ‘I seek God!…
Biblical Heretics & The Heresy of Jesus
Originally posted July 21, 2017 on www.validambiguity.com. Reposted with minor edits and additional quotes. “Considering how many ‘heretics’ have been sacrificed at the altar of ‘truth’, one wonders why in church…
Psalm 121 & Strikes Of The Moon
“The Psalms are not primarily about God but about the life of the soul in relation to God.” — C.S. Lewis In front of me was the director of the…
Emperor & Pyre: A Caesar & Naked Monk Walk into Eleusis Together…
“Be shrewd as serpents but innocent as doves” has always been a favorite verse of mine. So, my devil horns poked up when I heard last year was the Year…
Recovery, Sweat Lodges, & Preparing for Step 4 Again
Do you believe in change? And, before you answer that, do you still pray? Recently, it’s been another Pauleene pedantic processing season. You’d think this idea that we can arrive…
Elisha (Pt IIIb): How Kingdom is Built Two by Two
“Elisha’s ministry is a sustained assault on the secular autonomy of the palace. He proves that the King cannot even provide bread or water without the mediation of the Covenant.…
Elisha: No More Games & Doubling Down on Spirit (pt. IIIa)
“Elisha is a second Joshua, but he is a Joshua who begins where the first Joshua ended. By retracing the conquest in reverse, the narrative suggests that the land has…
BOOK EXCERPT: Man as the Measure & the Cave’s Shadow
Below is the second part of an excerpt from The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening. The first part looked at the objective realities of our inner subjective experiences…
7 Days for 7 Titles — No More Guile & Jacob’s Ladder (John 1:29-2:1)
“The sequence of days in John 1… is a deliberate reconstruction of the creative week of Genesis 1.” — N.T. Wright, (John for Everyone) In the previous post on John, we…
BOOK EXCERPT: The Truth & Love Of Chaos & Order
We’ve spent centuries caught in a binary argument: Nature versus Nurture. We are neither, and both, yet told we were either the sum of our imperfect nature or the byproduct…
