Tag: Formation
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A Questioning Community
The community of people who together are attempting to live harmoniously and responsibly with regard to God, who is the fundamental reality of all things, and who is life itself, is what we mean by the church. This mystery of the energy, essence, and power of love, which creates all things and binds them in…
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Christ Within
Somewhere inside of me. Something within you. The image of the invisible God, who is Christ, shapes something of who we really are. I say “something” and “somewhere” because I cannot quite put my finger on it, find adequate words for it, or identify the God-in-us reality of which Paul speaks. Christ in you, the…
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Hidden Spirituality
Do we know if we are spiritual? Yes, in the sense that being spiritual is our natural and created vocation. We are made for relationships with one another, with all creation, with God in and through everything else, and even ourselves. We have the capacity and are oriented for a spiritual walk in life, and…
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Describing Spirituality
In the scriptures, spiritual maturity is compared to seeing rather than blindness (John 9:39). It is described as being awake instead of asleep (Ephesians 5:14), in the light as opposed to in darkness (Ephesians 5:8-9), and alive rather than dead (Romans 8:10). Among the many metaphors, it is also to be well-watered instead of parched…
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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…