Category: Travelers
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Physical Spirituality
I suggested last week that much of our spiritual journey depends on awareness, specifically the awareness of the intertwined essence of our physical-spiritual nature. Our embodiment in human form and participation in a material world is not a problem to be solved by escaping into the spiritual, but is rather the location for our actual…
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Spiritual Awareness
The nature of our spiritual existence is that the unseen has more significance for our lives than what can be seen, though the physical world is the context in which we experience that which transcends and is beyond it. We encounter and are encountered by what exceeds what the natural world offers, but what is…
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Toward Spirituality
When we do not know how to sense the movement of God’s Spirit, we end up relying on what is visible, on our own human movements, desires, and senses. If we cannot perceive the invisible, we inevitably create something we can see, a tangible version of what we imagine. The essential truth about our spiritual…
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Jesus’ Refusal
So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. John 6:15 When Jesus fed the multitude, the people wanted to make Him king. To do this would require force. They would have to “seize” Jesus, because He wanted…
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Tillich’s Absolute Faith
For those most in the grip of the doubt and meaninglessness of our age, we have seen that none of the answers which served in past eras offer respite from despair. To take seriously our limitations, our ignorance both collectively and individually, our weakness, and human finitude, is to enter the darkness of existential anxiety.…
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Modern Doubt: Options
In this modern era, everything can be questioned. Traditional answers have no power to convince the skeptic; we no longer collectively assume and share a coherent reality, and we are capable of doubting any proposed order to our existence. Anyone who really pursues these questions comes to recognize the possibility of meaninglessness, of nothingness beneath…