Tag: christianity
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Angels
1/07/25 I don’t know how long I’ve had an interest in angels. I always loved hearing about angels, seeing paintings of them, and reading stories, Biblical or secular, that involve angels. I especially love the story of Jacob’s dream in which angels ascend a ladder that stretches from earth to heaven and then descend that…
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Standing Against Oppression
11/27/24 “The world is the cloister of the contemplative. There is no escape. Always the quest for justice draws one deeply into the heart of God. In this sacred interiority, contemplation becomes the language of prayer and the impetus for prophetic proclamation and action.” These words by the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes, an African-American theologian…
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Imagination as a Spiritual Practice
Remember what it was like to be a kid absorbed in imaginary play? In my neighborhood we played wagon train, based on a popular television series, pretending our little red wagons—loaded with toys and picnic lunches—were Conestoga wagons, heading across the plains. We also played house, a rather chaotic version, in which we battled floods,…
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Opening to Mystery as a Spiritual Practice: a Guest Post by Craig Rennebohm
Our daughter Kelsey died suddenly on June 1st 2012, in a bike-bus accident in Boston. She fell getting on her bike, just as a bus passed by on a busy street. No one’s fault. I was paralyzed by the suddenness of her death and yearned for a moment in which I might have a glimpse…