In process thought, things, properties and even the most universal of natural regularities are somewhat repeatable ways of newly interacting, “eddies in the constant flux of process.” No matter how stable or fixed they look, they never fully describe the novelty involved [...]
[Excerpted from John Dominic Crossan, The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story (Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 1988), pp. 42-43, 55-59, 105.] The book of Jonah places a parable not only against the entire prophetic tradition but against the very heart of [...]
Instead of asking, “Does God exist?,” let’s ask, “How shall we interact with that wherein we and all others ‘live and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:28)?” It’s too late even to ask about the reality of that wherein we and [...]
[This was originally a brochure written in 2004—Fr. Charles] “God is love, and those who dwell in love dwell in God, and God dwells in them.”—1 John 4:16b “Christ is the Logos of whom all people were partakers; and those who [...]
No matter how odd, no matter how broken you seem to be, you are already embraced by what I and other Christians have come to name the All-Embracing Communion of God's Spirit in Jesus Christ, and that embrace is already drawing you relentlessly to embody all-embracing communion in your life here and [...]
Do you ever wonder about prayer? Well ... duh! I’ve never met anybody who didn’t wonder about prayer. I mean, just what does it do? Sure, sometimes good things happen for people who pray, but so do bad things. And the same [...]
“Agape” (uh-gah-pay) is the New Testament Greek word for “self-giving love.” In Christian tradition an “Agape” is also the name for informal meals and times of togetherness and mutual sharing. Many scholars believe that an Agape was the earliest setting for [...]
The question I was asked to address is “How does Jesus shape your understanding of God?” But I can’t separate that from this one: “How does your understanding of God shape your understanding of Jesus?” And since this is a session on [...]
“God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying ‘Abba! Father!’ So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir through God.“ (Galatians 4:6-7) “God is love, and those who [...]
Here is where some ancient and current Christian writers and some ancient and current Buddhists find agreement: Separate objects and separate subjects are not ultimately real. Yes, they are distinguishable, and we can certainly call them real in a non-ultimate sense, but [...]