queerchurch.wordpress.com

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: The Hereafter

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-hereafter.html

February 18, 2013. If you had asked me when I was a child what happens to us when we die, I probably would have said, "We go to heaven." On a superficial level I probably believed that. I imagine I believed that I believed that. Believed, and I lost a lot of sleep over it. The most salient insight that occurred to me I later recognized as what the Buddhist tradition calls. Which is translated in a number of different ways (e.g., "conditioned arising," or "dependent origination," among many others). I cou...

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: February 2013

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html

February 20, 2013. I read the first few chapters of Garry Wills'. Last night. I chuckled a bit when I read about a "heresy" I didn't realize I was guilty of (to add the many others I'm very much aware of), namely that of the Stercoranists. These dangerous heretics asserted that the bread and wine of the Eucharist, after being. Gested, were subsequently. Gested and then excreted. You know, like. So, if they're not digested (and excreted), then exactly what. It's best not to think about it. But accompanyin...

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: My Latest Heresy

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-latest-heresy.html

February 20, 2013. I read the first few chapters of Garry Wills'. Last night. I chuckled a bit when I read about a "heresy" I didn't realize I was guilty of (to add the many others I'm very much aware of), namely that of the Stercoranists. These dangerous heretics asserted that the bread and wine of the Eucharist, after being. Gested, were subsequently. Gested and then excreted. You know, like. So, if they're not digested (and excreted), then exactly what. It's best not to think about it. Some Books I Fi...

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: No Bread, No Bag, No Money in Their Belts: Mark 6.7-13

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-bread-no-bag-no-money-in-their-belts.html

July 12, 2015. No Bread, No Bag, No Money in Their Belts: Mark 6.7-13. Jesus sends the Twelve, in pairs, to proclaim his gospel message about the reign of God. The most striking thing about this passage is Jesus's instructions on how they are to travel: "He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics" (Mark 6.8-9). Because they were doing this for such a short time, I don't think it was quite as...

thewildreed.blogspot.com

The Wild Reed: Lost Hope

http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/08/lost-hope.html

Thoughts and reflections from a progressive, gay, Catholic perspective. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Cried for lost hope. It wasn't that it was wonderful. Hearts and flowers romance. It wasn't remembered birthdays. It wasn't even moonlit walks. In autumn crisp-cool air. It was hope that this man of reality. Would be the man of my dreams. Then, you see,. The shock of honeymoon-learned reality. Could be lived with. It was hope that died. That's why I cried. 8211; From Eternal Springs: An Anthology of Hope.

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: January 2013

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html

January 25, 2013. Rachel Held Evans is a writer I've recently started to take an interest in. I read about her first book,. Evolving in Monkey Town. Some time ago, and put it on my "to read" list, but it's a long list and I haven't gotten around to it yet. But I've visited her blog a few times, and I really like what I've been reading. (That's not something I can say about a lot of Evangelicals! Her post yesterday, "The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart,". So God is God! If I were to drop dead right now, ...

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: I Don't Think It's Time for a "New Nicaea"

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-dont-think-its-time-for-new-nicaea.html

April 2, 2013. I Don't Think It's Time for a "New Nicaea". Mark Etling wrote a thought provoking piece posted on. On Sunday: "Time to reunite all Catholics with a new Nicaea.". My initial reaction was quite positive, so I started to write a post for this blog describing what I liked about it. But the more I wrote, the more I realized that this might actually be, in some ways, a terrible idea. So I scrapped that post. He then writes,. Much of what Etling suggests would create. Division, not less. The ...

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: He Has Abolished the Law: Ephesians 2.13-18

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/2015/07/he-has-abolished-law-ephesians-213-18.html

July 19, 2015. He Has Abolished the Law: Ephesians 2.13-18. The author of this epistle. Makes the startling claim that Christ "has abolished the law" (Eph 2.15). Taken out of context it seems quite shocking, and not at all like anything we find in the gospels. To understand it, we need to read it in context:. By "the law" is not meant the entire Torah. "Do not kill," for example, is still in force. What is meant are specifically those laws that differentiated Jews from non-Jews: circumcision,. God had pr...

integralchristianity.blogspot.com

the way ahead: Bibliography

http://integralchristianity.blogspot.com/p/the-scripture-quotations-on-this-site.html

The Scripture quotations on this site are, unless noted otherwise, from the New Revised Standard Version Bible. References to the Greek text of the New Testament and any passages I translate myself are, unless otherwise noted, based on the Nestle-Aland 28th edition (Aland, et al.). Click here for list of abbreviations. 9679; ● ●. Aland, Barbara, Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo M. Martini, and Bruce M. Metzger, eds. Nestle-Aland - Novum Testamentum Graece. Beasley-Murray, George R. John. San Fr...