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A New Energy and Joy

Loving Things in Themselves

The only way I know how to love God is to love what God loves. Continue Reading Loving Things in Themselves

Ripening with Age: Weekly Summary

As we grow old we realize that, in all we have been through, Love has been using us for its own purposes. Continue Reading Ripening with Age: Weekly Summary

A Spiritual Renewal

The great commandment is not “thou shalt be right.” The great commandment is to “be in love.” Continue Reading A Spiritual Renewal

Spirituality and Addiction: Weekly Summary

Spirituality and Addiction Saturday, November 20, 2021 Week Forty-Six Summary and Practice Sunday, November 14—Friday, November 19, 2021 Sunday Until and unless there is a person, situation, event, idea, conflict, or relationship that we cannot “manage,” we will never find the True Manager. —Richard Rohr Monday We are all addicted to our own habitual way… Continue Reading Spirituality and Addiction: Weekly Summary

Hell, No! Weekly Summary

Hell, No! Saturday, September 18, 2021 Week Thirty-Seven Summary and Practice Sunday, September 12—Friday, September 17, 2021 Sunday Your image of God creates you. This is why it is important that we see God as loving and benevolent and why good theology still matters. Monday Heaven is not about belonging to the right group or… Continue Reading Hell, No! Weekly Summary

The Cosmos Reveal God’s Great Love

Living Inside God’s Great Story The Cosmos Reveal God’s Great Love Thursday, September 2, 2021 Brian McLaren grew up, as I did, in a very religious home, where “our story” was defined by strict religious obligations, with clear insiders and outsiders. However, a mystical experience in nature opened Brian up to God’s Great Story. He… Continue Reading The Cosmos Reveal God’s Great Love

Crisis Contemplation and Joy

Crisis Contemplation Crisis Contemplation and Joy Thursday, July 29, 2021 In my Franciscan tradition, joy comes from an inner realization of true experiential union with God (or Reality, Consciousness, and Life itself!). This realization descends upon us at ever deeper levels as we walk our faith journey. Authentic joy, however, takes place through our pain—not… Continue Reading Crisis Contemplation and Joy

God is Entirely Intimate

Mystical Marriage God is Entirely Intimate Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Lie down in the Fire See and taste the Flowing Godhead through thy being; Feel the Holy Spirit Moving and compelling Thee within the Flowing Fire and Light of God. —Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead 6.29  Mechthild of Magdeburg (c. 1212–c.… Continue Reading God is Entirely Intimate

God as Friendship

Friendship and Grace God as Friendship Friday, April 16, 2021 As I was preparing for The Shape of God conference on the Trinity in 2004, I discovered the teachings of Richard of St. Victor (1110–1173), a medieval philosopher and theologian. For years, people had been telling me, “Richard, read Richard!” So I finally did, and… Continue Reading God as Friendship

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