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One of the ideas I’ve always liked best about the story of Jesus’s resurrection is that he didn’t just die and then rise again after three arbitrary days. Rather, it’s that on an ontological level, Jesus had life itself within him. He …
Today is the equinox. This weekend is my birthday, my Jesus year: I will be 33 years old. It occurred to me that I could spend this year trying to get to know him again (it’s been a while). I …
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. “The divine name …
I see in myself a holding back. I see in myself a constriction, an inability to relax and experience … a fear. Of what am I afraid? That if I let go, nothing will be. That if I let go, there will …
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. This stirs me: …
I have found a key. Nothing is ever lost. When the stomach flu racks your body or death disintegrates you or you’re born or born again or you fall in love or lose a leg, nothing is lost. When you …
I can see why they call it the Tao. I can see why the Bible says God makes it rain on the righteous and wicked alike: everywhere, there’s this law, this boarding pass to another way of being, and if …
I paused from my study to read back over these entries, trying to make sense of something that eludes me. It has to do with this subject of lineage and place and how they affect religion. I think I understand …
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. When the “Jewish heirs of …