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This is something I posted reently on the "ChristianBoard.com" message boards. I just thought I'd share it here, because I think I was speaking mostly to myself, trying to clarify to msyself what I actually believe as opposed to what I have in the past thought I should believe... and I fin...

We happend to catch "Evan Almighty" in the stateroom on our cruise last week. I recommend it highly: Not only is it hilarious, it is also profound.

I have not yet read the Gospel of Judas, but I have no problem with so-called "gnostic" literature. A Course in Miracles is gnostic, and I love it. Gnosticism had a great deal to offer, but it "had to go" in order for the "machine" being constructed by the sucessors of ...

Yes. I've found myself quoting more and more often, on the "Christianboard", the words of the Psalm: "Be still, and know that I am God." I suspect that we are often too busy "doing things for God" and informing God of what He needs to do for us or about someone else, th...

How true that is, Anna, I see every day. I am active on another message board, called "ChristianBoard.com." I am constantly amazed by two things: one is that so many post messages that amount basically to "Here's whom we should hate today" (usually, it's the Pope; sometimes it is...

"How do we know we are finding the way and not talking ourselves into true mental illness? If we lose the footing of the world we are standing in, what do we have to compare against and assure ourselves that we are not lost in the twilight zone?" This is complicated by the fact that "...

"Art, this is exactly where I'm at and the transition that I'm struggling with. Maybe the raisin in the bun is simply coming from trying to understand the Great Spirit in a more concrete way, or looking too much through the lenses of things and matter." Of course. Not one of us but has bee...

"Again, the man painted by my Sunday school teachers seemed to me to be such a wimp that I couldn’t understand why I would want to consider him a model for my own life." I had a professor in seminary who was deeply offended by the wimpy portrayals of Jesus one sees so often. He called it t...

You're on the right track, Jen, or so it seems to me. Orthodox theologians point to Jesus' "I AM" statements, sich as "I am the bread of life" and "I am Alpha and Omega," and argue that he was claiming uniqueness, that these statements prove he and he alone was "th...

I agree: the book opened an entire new horizon for me. Even in my "evangelical fundamentalist Christian" phase, I could not make heads or tails of Genesis (at least the part that precedes the Abraham accounts): my response to it was, "Yeah, right." And I felt "guilty" f...

"By Grace in God's Good Time, our accepting and embracing it and all its implications, evolves into love which enables union and from there, recognition of always-true Identity." Yes. No agument there from me. And really, that is precisely what I meant refering to the Christian Scientists....

"They know themselves to live, both in the discrete, manifested, ever-changeful parts and appearances, and also in the Whole Fact." This is a very nice and helpful little essay; thanks for posting it. That statement in particular is good for me to hear. I know that I tend to go charging of...

"Has anyone watched the movie Pan's Labrynth?" Never heard of it, but I'll definitely track it down. Speaking of Pan, the chapter is The Wind in the Willows entitled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" also speaks to that yearning; it's really a lovely essay which I read over and ov...

" there is a real grieving that occurs, and an aching for the "ease" or known sense of living as a separated being" How extraordinarily true that is. In fact, it was an attack of that very thing that "caused" my sojourn into hard-core, fundamentlaist, orthodox Christian...

"The Sufis called it “cutting off the head”, Jesus called it “born again” – the only way you can be born again is to die first – the Hindu’s jnani calls it “loss of self”, the mystics call it immersion in or union with God – one cannot truly unite without loss of a separated self, nor can one i...