Tag Archives: Fundamentalism
Following Jesus: Weekly Summary
Following Jesus Summary: Sunday, January 20-Friday, January 25, 2019 We keep saying, “We love Jesus,” but it is more as a God-figure than someone to imitate. (Sunday) Throughout the first five centuries people understood Christianity primarily as a way of life in the present, not as a doctrinal system, esoteric belief, or promise of eternal… Continue Reading Following Jesus: Weekly Summary
Listening and Learning
Unknowing: Week 1 Listening and Learning Thursday, October 4, 2018 Feast of Francis of Assisi Human history is in a time of great flux, of great cultural and spiritual change. The psyche doesn’t know what to do with so much information. I am told that if you take all of the information that human beings… Continue Reading Listening and Learning
Participatory Knowing
Trinity: Week 2 Participatory Knowing Sunday, September 18, 2016 All authentic knowledge of God is participatory. I must say this directly and clearly because it is a very different way of knowing reality—and it should be the unique, open-horizoned gift of people of faith. But Christians have almost entirely lost this way of knowing, ever… Continue Reading Participatory Knowing
Blue: Our Mythic Truth
Levels of Development: Week 2 Blue: Our Mythic Truth Tuesday, December 15, 2015 The fourth level of Spiral Dynamics is the Blue or Purposeful/Authoritarian level, which began approximately 5,000 years ago. I like to call it Our Mythic Truth. Here one discovers a deeper source of meaning, direction, and purpose that holds us together: creeds,… Continue Reading Blue: Our Mythic Truth