The Universal Christ
God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very S ...
Always and Only the Incarnation Christianity’s unique trump card is always and forever incarnation. This is why the only heresie ...
concrete events and persons, dialoguing with my own past decisions, on and on. I learned that if the quiet space, the questions ...
Permission to Go “In” and “Down” If you think I am emphasizing the experiential too much, just remember that both Jesus and Paul ...
visit tombs, create customs till they become sacrosanct traditions. We kiss holy rocks, paint art, create sacred architecture, w ...
the Christ in a collective sense, not just his ascension but also ours. Look at texts like Colossians 2:11–15 and Ephesians 2:4– ...
Respect, Wonder, Reverence This change of perspective, to bottom up and inside out, can take the form of religious language or t ...
10 The Feminine Incarnation From now on, all generations will call me blessed; for the Mighty One has done great things for me, ...
Christian people who appear to have honored Mary much more than Jesus? After all, the New Testament speaks very little of Mary. ...
Mary became the Symbol of the First Universal Incarnation. She then hands the Second Incarnation on to us, while remaining in th ...
Humanity has always been receiving the Christ in every culture and age, and women are most naturally imaged as the receivers of ...
process of divinization. This is hugely important. The Mary symbol brought together the two disparate worlds of matter and spiri ...
Saying Yes to God The point is that in some ways, many humans can identify with Mary more than they can with Jesus precisely bec ...
our psyche, our cultures, our patterns of leadership, and our theologies, all of which have become far too warlike, competitive, ...
11 This Is My Body Life is the destiny you are bound to refuse until you have consented to die. —W. H. Auden, “For the Time Bein ...
today it sounds naïve, off-putting, and even cannibalistic. The very word John uses here, sarx, is the same word Paul uses throu ...
body, heart, mind, and whatever we mean by “soul.” Love affairs never happen just in the mind. Only presence can know presence. ...
The Universal Incarnate Presence As if eating his body weren’t enough, Jesus pushes us in even further and scarier directions by ...
congregation that barely seems interested in the message. Seeing it as a miracle is not really the message at all. I can see why ...
“Given for You” The other momentous phrase that Jesus repeated at the Last Supper is the phrase “for you.” In the accounts of Ma ...
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