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The Empty Day, again | The Empty Path
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Nonaligned faith and practice in the present. The Empty Day, again. April 5, 2015 in Jesus. Six years ago on the Saturday of Holy Week, I wrote about what I call. For many Christians, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter are the key days of that week. For me, as one who is constantly on the boundary between faith and doubt, it is that in-between Saturday which confronts me most vibrantly with the gut reality of Jesus in my life. Following the recent deaths of my mother. When eventually I remembered th...
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Christian Universalisms | The Empty Path
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Nonaligned faith and practice in the present. May 10, 2015 in Jesus. Just as there are many Christianities, there are many forms of Christian Universalism. I seek to follow the faith and practice of the historical Jesus, regardless of how later belief systems and their enforcers may have reinterpreted his ministry to suit their own theological or political notions. In addition, I just finished Stephen Finlan’s 2008 book,. The Apostle Paul and the Pauline Tradition. However, human society does poorly at t...
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“Kenosis,” by Richard Beck | The Empty Path
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Nonaligned faith and practice in the present. 8220;Kenosis,” by Richard Beck. June 9, 2015 in kenosis. Posted on 6.05.2015. I am tired of myself. And not, let me say,. In any morbid, psychopathological sense. And why do we so quickly go there? I’ve become impatient with the mental health frame and worry. How everything is shadowed. By diagnoses and the fear. Of being mentally ill. Who among us is healthy? Let me be sick for a moment. If that is what this is. Which it isn’t.). Which goes to my point.
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Profile | The Empty Path
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Nonaligned faith and practice in the present. Who am I now? In September of 2006, I entered the blogosphere using the tragicomic voice of a character I call my “curmudgeonly alter-ego,” Walhydra. As is the case for all egos, Walhydra is convinced that. Walhydra came into being as a storytelling device in the mid-1990s, when I was invited to join a private listserv of mostly pagan, mostly women elders, folk who understand, revere and emulate the crone aspect of the Goddess. The other is Carlos Castaneda, ...
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Head Upon a Stone: February 2012
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Head Upon a Stone. Monday, February 13, 2012. Will the Real Quakers Stand Up? Not All at Once, Please. Actually I'm not. I draw the line at goat sacrifice ( just. In 14 or so years, we will be entering our third century of disagreement. Perhaps it would be better if we all agreed to lay down the terms "Quaker" and "Friend," and renamed our various branches to make the split irrevocable. No? I thought not. Can it be that we're not quite ready to vote ourselves or our dissenting brethren off the island?
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Head Upon a Stone: Liberal Friends - the Lake Wobegon of Quakerism
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Head Upon a Stone. Thursday, September 27, 2012. Liberal Friends - the Lake Wobegon of Quakerism. I have just returned from a retreat at Pendle Hill where we spent a lot of time identifying our own and each other’s gifts with a view to living lives more faithful to the leadings of the Spirit. There was much deep listening and reflection, and I think that most of us left with the wind under our tails, filled with good resolutions to put our gifts to work in our meetings and our world. How can we all come ...
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A West Rindge Quaker: 09/2009
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A West Rindge Quaker. On Quakerism, spirituality and religion; recognizing the influence of the Quaker school and community where I used to teach and make my home. Over on Bad Quaker Bible Blog. I have just posted a long article. Which I'd be honored if you'd like to read. And you'll find other great meditations by some very interesting Friends, too! The BQBB grew out of a Facebook group called The Association of Bad Friends, a collection of probably-pretty-good Quakers poking fun at themselves.). So I t...
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Head Upon a Stone: Why I Keep Coming Back
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Head Upon a Stone. Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Why I Keep Coming Back. My husband, the senior warden at the local Episcopal church, enjoys twitting me on certain aspects of Quakerism. Why, he asks, drive an hour and a half round trip to sit in silence for one hour? May 23, 2012 at 4:16 PM. The Meeting offers us continuity. Well said, Patricia. August 6, 2012 at 1:18 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If there are a "chosen few". Then I am not one of them,. If an "elect," well then. I have not been elected.
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Melancholia & thisness: where does joy abide? | The Empty Path
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Nonaligned faith and practice in the present. Melancholia and thisness: where does joy abide? June 23, 2008 in joy. Somewhere I have read that joy does not depend upon happiness. And somehow I have come to understand that salvation is first of all about this life, not the next. This may sound like the same old religious pie-in-the-sky we’ve all heard about and scoffed at and yearned for. Nevertheless, I am coming to know it as a pragmatic, down-to-earth, “ survival faith and practice. It has taken me fif...
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Key Posts | The Empty Path
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Nonaligned faith and practice in the present. On The Empty Path On Quaker Universalist Fellowship On Bad Quaker Bible Blog. The posts listed here are not notes for a “systematic theology.” They are merely essays to put into words what is beyond words. The following excerpt from my post “Weeds (Part II): Religion or Belief”. Speaks to a core principle: that our experience of the Real transcends any of our efforts to describe the Real in the language of belief. The Religious Case Against Belief. Perpetuall...
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