Spiritual Mutt

Back in the early 90s I worked in the up and coming cellular phone industry for a local company called Wilcom Cellular, an offshoot of a lo...

Having come from a "shh...we're in church" background, being introduced to the "born again" version of Christianity ...

Trying to further elaborate on the post on Henry Corbin's discussion on Angelology, he delves further into the gnostic idea and its tra...

Here is the link to the blog: The Legacy of Henry Corbin A new book is due in August of 2009 which looks quite adventurous and tags right al...

In Henry Corbin's densely packed book on the trajectory of "gnosticism" from Zoroastrianism through Christianity to its final...

In 1999, having been a "born again" Christian at a Oneness Pentecostal church in the heart of the inner city in Youngstown, I was...

It is a choice, certainly and I think that is the key. You might say it's a choice to choose. But then commitment to that choice is j...

Along with being a spiritual mutt, I have also been a career mutt. It has certainly been an adventure. In late 2004 I was hired as execu...

My wife is black. I'm not. She is not African American. She is from Jamaica. Jamaican American? Jamerican? African Jamaican? And...

I stumbled across two very interesting articles over the past few days. Neither one of them are religious in nature and both of them expos...

Round two of Conclusions: 1) The Palestinian Targum proves quite conclusively that already in the first century AD there existed a firm beli...

I'm going to ease into this one as I haven't read all posts so am not certain what has been covered. However, this is primarily in ...

God is a trip. Sometimes you can pick up a book and you don't know why. You may even try to read it. But it doesn't click. So it...

When I was in high school I used to write stories. Aside from the "porno stories" I used to write in middle school (!), in high s...

My ego would prefer to be a sex addict. Being a porn addict sounds sleazy, cheap, creepy, perverted. At least as a sex addict you've ...

Those are valid questions. It can appear as self-absorption, drama, attention getting or just plain strange, especially to those who know ...

The purest of love would be so externally "other" centered that such a love could not love singly. It would be an all encompassin...

"When everyone knows good as good, this is not good." Dao De Jing, Chapter 2, Thomas Cleary translation. That's not a very lit...

Any Korn fans out there? Brian Head Welch discusses what led to his leaving Korn. The paradox of Christianity is that it brings the toughes...

If you struggle with pornography, this video is a must see: If you think Christ is for lightweights, think again. Below is a great site for...