The Universal Christ

life and death—we struggle to see God in our own reality, let alone to respect reality, protect it, or love it. The consequences ...

or in the rest of the physical universe. That has been our major impasse up to now. Jesus was supposed to be the code breaker, b ...

this universal pattern perfectly mimics the inner life of the Trinity in Christian theology,*4 which is our template for how rea ...

Jesus, Christ, and the Beloved Community The Franciscan philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus (1266–1308), whom I studied ...

No nationality can control or limit this Flow of such universal love. These are the ubiquitous gifts of the Christ Mystery, hidd ...

2 Accepting That You Are Fully Accepted I am making the whole of creation new....It will come true....It is already done! I am t ...

was, I am” (John 8:58). Jesus of Nazareth would not likely have talked that way, but if these are the words of the Eternal Chris ...

author says, “He has given us something very great and wonderful...you are able to share the divine nature!” This is Christianit ...

Seeing and Recognizing Are Not the Same The core message of the incarnation of God in Jesus is that the Divine Presence is here, ...

By the time Paul wrote the letters to Colossae (1:15–20) and Ephesus (1:3–14), some twenty years after Jesus’s era, he had alrea ...

Light and Enlightenment Have you ever noticed that the expression “the light of the world” is used to describe the Christ (John ...

promise of eternal resurrection. Christ is the light that allows people to see things in their fullness. The precise and intende ...

God. After the incarnation of Jesus, we could more easily imagine a give-and- take God, a relational God, a forgiving God. Strob ...

recognize,” “one who came after me, because he existed before me” (John 1:26, 30). He came in mid-tone skin, from the underclass ...

Loving Jesus, Loving Christ To be loved by Jesus enlarges our heart capacity. To be loved by the Christ enlarges our mental capa ...

it’s why you, whoever you are, can experience God’s unadulterated care for you in your garden or kitchen, your husband or wife, ...

3 Revealed in Us—as Us To turn from everything to one face is to find oneself face to face with everything. —Elizabeth Bowen, Th ...

God’s wisdom really is according to a plan from all eternity” (3:10). He describes the experience as being like if scales had fa ...

prophets. By definition, they do not represent the system, but draw their authority directly from the Source in order to critiqu ...

En Cristo Paul summarizes his corporate understanding of salvation with his shorthand phrase “en Cristo,” using it more than any ...