The Universal Christ

walking the full journey with me. Now I do not have to pretend that I am God. This is more than enough and more than good, just ...

mystics said is true, Crux probat omnia—“The cross legitimates/proves/uses everything.” (Stay with this Christian maxim until it ...

13 It Can’t Be Carried Alone There is one Body, one Spirit, and you were all called into one and the same hope.... And each one ...

another dog, or pronounced her name. But in those weeks before she died, Venus somehow communicated to me that all sadness, whet ...

lessons. But when I can find a shared meaning for something, especially if it allows me to love God and others in the same actio ...

“One Lump” In the fourteenth century, the inspired, anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing taught that God in Christ dealt w ...

one with the living, whether they’re our direct ancestors, the saints in glory, or even the so-called souls in purgatory. The wh ...

of love, communion, or solidarity with God or others, including the marginalized. We recognized hierarchical or vertical account ...

One Life, One Death, One Suffering The Universal Christ is trying to communicate at the deepest intuitive level that there is on ...

warming. I can speak with a soft and trusting voice in the public domain if doing so will help lessen human hatred and mistrust. ...

14 The Resurrection Journey Everything will be all right in the end. If it’s not all right, it is not yet the end. —The Best Exo ...

the body. Most simply said, nothing truly good can die! (Trusting that is probably our real act of faith!) Resurrection is prese ...

universe is also saying—and grounds it as something more than a mere spiritual or miraculous belief. It must also be a fully pra ...

The Wedding Banquet Jesus’s most consistent metaphor and image for this final state of affairs was some version of a wedding fea ...

ex nihilo, which is precisely God’s core job description: God is the one “who gives life to the dead and calls into existence th ...

“Reality with a Personality” The central issue here is not whether Jesus did or did not physically rise from the dead, which sup ...

negatively connect, to hate, fear, or oppose, is not to meet the Divine Personality. Thus we are strongly warned against such ne ...

What Happened at Jesus’s Resurrection? What happened at the resurrection is that Jesus was fully revealed as the eternal and dea ...

put to the test in exactly the same way as we ourselves” (Hebrews 4:15b), and he can then well serve as our practical model and ...

union] of humanity and divinity that was united in Christ”.*6 Later, St. Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) made it even more specific: ...