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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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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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“I’m tired. Of myself.” | The Empty Path
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Nonaligned faith and practice in the present. 8220;I’m tired. Of myself.”. June 30, 2015 in empty path. As Richard Beck wrote in “ Kenosis. I’m tired. Of myself. Not sad. Not depressed. Not suicidal. Not dark. Tired of being an ego. Having an ego. I’m tired of filtering everything through myself. Granted, as one of melancholy temperament. It is far too easy for my brain, when it notices the symptoms Beck describes, to seek reasons for sadness, depression, darkness…and to find them. Bad Quaker Bible Blog.
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SEYM Peace & Social Concerns Committee - Meeting Updates
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St Pete for Peace Update. Quakers in the News. Blogs by and about Friends. The Good Raised Up. What Canst Thou Say? Simon St. Laurent. The World in Action. Christian Alliance for Progress. Faith in Public Life. National Directory of Faith Groups for Justice and the Common Good. Annenberg Political Fact Check. Help microfinance small businesses. Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Interview with Michael Weinstein. Network of Spritual Progressives. A Quaker Response to Poverty. St Pete Meeting distribut...
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Plainly Pagan: November 2013
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The Quaker Journal of a Rural Neurotic. Thursday, November 21, 2013. Dear Dr. XXXX,. The round trip to XXXX was almost seven hours long. I arrived immediately before my panel presentation and left at its conclusion. I could not afford to pay for a hotel room and therefore could not stay for the dinner. I could not, in fact, stay for any of the conference apart from my own presentation because of a lack of time and funds. Best wishes, etc. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lone Star Ma Blog.
