Monthly Archives: February 2016
The Shape of the Universe Is Love
Scripture: Week 2 The Shape of the Universe Is Love Monday, February 29, 2016 In the beginning YHWH, the God of Israel, says, “Let us make humanity in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves” (Genesis 1:26). The use of the plural pronoun here seems to be an amazing, deep time intuition of what… Continue Reading The Shape of the Universe Is Love
The First Bible
Scripture: Week 2 The First Bible Sunday, February 28, 2016 The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words. “Ever since God created… Continue Reading The First Bible
Scripture: Week 1 Summary
Scripture: Week 1 Summary: Sunday, February 21-Friday, February 26, 2016 The biblical revelation is inviting us into a new experience and a new way of seeing, and evolved human consciousness seems to be more ready to accept the divine invitation. (Sunday) If the Risen Jesus is the full and trustworthy unveiling of the nature of… Continue Reading Scripture: Week 1 Summary
Transforming Our Pain
Scripture: Week 1 Transforming Our Pain Friday, February 26, 2016 One of the enlightened themes that develops in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures and reaches its fullness in the crucified Jesus is the recognition of the transformative significance of human pain and suffering. We see this most especially in the four “Servant Songs” of Isaiah… Continue Reading Transforming Our Pain
Self-Critical Thinking
Scripture: Week 1 Self-Critical Thinking Thursday, February 25, 2016 In the Judeo-Christian scriptures, we read about people who found God in the actual, in seemingly secular history, and in mundane daily life. This is the Jewish matrix by which we were gradually prepared for the personal incarnation. It widened, solidified, and paved the runway by… Continue Reading Self-Critical Thinking
Order, Disorder, Reorder
Scripture: Week 1 Order, Disorder, Reorder Tuesday, February 23, 2016 The Bible reveals the development of human consciousness and human readiness for a Divine Love Affair. The differences between earlier and later Scriptures clearly show an evolution of human capacity, comprehension, and depth of experience. Jesus, for me, represents the mature image of what God… Continue Reading Order, Disorder, Reorder
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward
Scripture: Week 1 Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward Monday, February 22, 2016 Life itself is always three steps forward and two steps backward. We get the point and then we lose or doubt it. In that, the biblical text mirrors our own human consciousness and journey. Our job is to see where the three… Continue Reading Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward
Alumni Newsletter – February 2016
Alumni Newsletter February 2016 A Note from the Director Just a few short months ago we–the first cohort of the Living School program–were given “this little piece of paper” at our sending ceremony, affirming we had spent two years integrating the wisdom of the Perennial Tradition within the community of the Living School for Action and Contemplation. The faculty… Continue Reading Alumni Newsletter – February 2016
A New Experience
Scripture: Week 1 A New Experience Sunday, February 21, 2016 “Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.” —Eugene Ionesco [1] The British-American author D. H. Lawrence said, “The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.” New ideas… Continue Reading A New Experience