God Must Love
Today’s post explores the Big Idea of Essential Kenosis and what it tells us about the nature/character of God.
Tag: God is love
Still Becoming: Renovation
Open and Relational Theology has been a life saver for me, To be able to engage God and the world in ways that are consistent with my experience and intuitive sense of the God-who-is-love via the new eyes of good history, scripture, anthropology, philosophy, science and cosmology. It is affording me a way towards a more whole, very human life in the ongoing journey of becoming love.
“God gives but doesn’t share”
This little saying was in my inbox the other morning. It is a snippet from Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, the story about a person named Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia. Farmer is a physician and medical anthropologist spending his career working to improve healthcare for some of the poorest…
The Logos is Nonsense
In the beginning, was the logos and the logos was with God and the Logos was God…. begins a very familiar verse from John’s Gospel. Lots has been done with the word logos and like many words, it has evolved over time.
Finding Community along the Beautiful Way
For at least the last decade many have been sensing a new reformation taking shape. It started to be a fairly broad critique of what manifests as institutional forms of church and the nature of its structures. Much has been written on this issue and we have seem a steady exodus from western institutional forms of church regardless of stripe.
Facets of Divine Love
The word love has certainly changed over the years. The subtle change has resulted in love moving from an active verb to a possessive noun. Perhaps part of the issue is that in English, we have the one word for love – love. We often add adjectives to describe a particular quality of love but…
Heaven in Hell’s Despair
“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” -William Blake, from The Clod and the Pebble Love is the primary element in the alchemy of the Beautiful Way. It is the creative, restorative force that enlivens and sustains…
O Love, Divine Love
O Love, divine Love, why do You lay siege to me? In a frenzy of love for me, You find no rest. From five sides You move against me, Hearing, sight, taste, touch, and scent. To come out is to be caught; I cannot hide from You. _____________ If I come out through sight…
Intro to the Love Paradigm
The Love Paradigm is like a new set of eye glasses that alter slightly the way we see things. Worldview can be defined as a collection of intellectual, emotional and / or spiritual paradigms that are based upon beliefs about the world, about reality, about truth. These paradigms are like a skeletal system (gives organization…