Spiritual Mutt

I am dabbling, and I mean dabbling, in Bulgakov. While I am transfixed by Corbin's writing and its 'eastern' bent it seems to m...

Why is it that we want to be heard? Ultimately, what is it we want to say? As listener, where is it we wish to take the speaker, to gui...

It dawned on me today that whenever I seek to understand another religious tradition or variant of my own it is usually because I am truly ...

My wife has a habit of calling me out on what I've learned: 'how does that help you love me more?' is her usually question when...

We all just want to be heard. Our whole life is expression. Whether it be music, writing, acting, even working, we all want to give express...

Decided to listen to some worship songs this morning, the ones that we sing at the church we currently attend. And I listen, I wonder who t...

This point is further developed by Clement: "In other words, in the human being the person is not identifiable with the body or the so...

I cannot read self-help books (in general but this is a specific sub-topic from within that genre) that pull random quotes from wherever an...

The deeper I dig in to this stuff, it seems as if many of these 'heretics' were but props, 'types' against which doctrine w...

There is absolutely no way we will ever come to complete agreement on this Christian thing. Never. Never have, at least not all the way (...

This theology stuff is, dare I say, fun. I like where it takes me and how it moves me. But is it true? I recently stumbled across one o...

So I'm (is it annoying to start a sentence with 'So I...'?) listening to Kari Jobe's Majestic album (with DVD version of ...

Watched the Carlton Pearson movie 'Come Sunday' last night. Interesting story although the film itself was quite dry. If I didn...

While I theologize all day long, preoccupied as my mind is with this stuff, my personal life is a wreck. Don't get me wrong, comparativ...

Pretty much...

Sometimes revelation comes in subtle ways as if what I've been digesting is slowly burrowing its way through the muck and it finally fi...

At church Sunday and the message is proclaimed early: "God has a Son Who He sent to Earth 2000 years ago to die on a criminal's ...

My God, this doctrine thing gets heady. Many churches today dance around the topic, or pay it lip service, and proclaim it's all about ...

Sunday. Church. Love my church, really do. Made up of some awesome people. New pastor overseeing the whole enterprise and he's brought ...

Talking with my wife yesterday and it slowly dawned on me what it is that I (think I) have found within Orthodoxy. From books anyhow... ...