The Biblical story-line traces God’s cultivation of the strength within us to regulate the primitive biological drives: survival and procreation. Brought into the world by a woman manifesting perfect feminine love, Jesus manifested perfect masculine love and conquered death on the cross. The two were existence proofs that the human form was capable of channeling … Continue reading Manifestation
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The panic that I incite in pastors reflects a fundamental gap between their profit model and the necessities of redemption. Successful pastors, in modern terms, offer a transaction. The flock pays their tithes and the pastor promises them individual salvation. In contradiction of Jesus' command to “Love God…and your neighbor…,” the compact stops and ends … Continue reading Context
The COVID crisis in 2020 coincided with the beginning of my seventh decade in this incarnation. In many spiritual traditions, including Christianity, seven is the number of perfection in service to the redemption of this fallen reality. The writing produced in my sixth decade was devoted to the human role in that process. We are … Continue reading Finishing
In Revelation 5, as the angels mourn their isolation from Unconditional Love (which is the Most High), a scroll is revealed “with writing on both sides.” That detail may seem incidental, but remember what Adam is told in Eden: do not eat from the tree in the middle of the Garden, which is the Tree … Continue reading Breaking the Martyr’s Chains
When we tell the story of the United States, it begins with the British Empire. The colonial empires were bound to collapse under the burden of distance, and in Asia and Africa it was only in fomenting division that the colonial powers maintained control until the 20th century. In North America, where the settlers quickly … Continue reading Points of View
Love Returns 