Phōtizō: Getting Out of The Cave
One of my favorite Bible stories is the Samaritan Woman at the Well in John 4. While she is unnamed, later traditions called her Photini — The Luminous One — because she…
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Richard Rohr
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Jacob’s Wages: The Cost of Trying Too Hard
There’s a pattern in Jacob’s story, the grandson of Abraham. It’s one that chased me until it brought me to an end. “Grace is not opposed to effort, it is…
Christians Can Use Tarot: A Case for Biblical Symbols & Spiritual Formation
“It seems as if the set of pictures in the Tarot cards were distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation, a view that has been confirmed for me in a…
The Geometry of Orthodoxy: Participatory vs. Autocentric and Our Narcissism of Small Differences
“Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace.” — St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against…
What Really Matters: Red Letter Commandments We Missed
“The ‘vampire Christian’ is one who wants a little of Christ’s blood for their sins but doesn’t want any of His life for their life.” — Dallas Willard There’s a…
Demythologizing Addiction: A Recovering Pastor’s Map Through the Wreckage
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” — Luke 5:31-32 In AA, we like…
An Introduction to Sonship: John 1:6-18
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not…
When Salvation Needs Enemies, It Isn’t Jesus
Last week wasn’t an easy one, and there was stuff from normal life and recovery. While preparing for the Bible in Context, Genesis 2:24–25 kept coming up in life too:…
“Am I Safe?” — From PTSD to Providence in “I AM”
“Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted,…
Discipleship As A Personal, Subjective Experience
What follows is an early excerpt from The Son of Man & Its Mystic Awakening, now on Amazon, which frames discipleship in this book: it’s about growing up, not checking…
