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Tag: Love

Public Theology & Spirituality

Undamning our Love

29 Aug 202031 Aug 2020
A point of clarity before you begin reading this essay. This essay's "origin story" is important to understanding the point, trajectory, and intent of this essay. Along with the Facebook…
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Liberation Christophany

25 Jan 20204 Nov 2020
A Christophanic Hermeneutics  The work of Raimon Panikkar cultivates a dynamism for the Christian faith that motivates all humanity to recognize the goodness that they already know deep within our…
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A Doctrine of Original Love

5 Dec 20194 Nov 2020
Sitting in a quiet room of a retreat center tucked into the woods, men and women gather to hear three simple words, “You are loved.” As the words pour forth,…
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Love Long Learning

4 Nov 20194 Nov 2020
Each Monday began with the same question, “Tell us at least one high and one low since last week.” Snaking around the room, everyone would turn and face each person…
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Cosmically Incarnated Christ

19 Sep 20194 Nov 2020
As a child I was not close with my father. Suffering from poor health and a heart attack that occurred early in my childhood, my father rarely had time for…
Camino de Santiago

I Miss My Dad

19 Jun 20194 Nov 2020
Stage 16: Carrión de los Condes to Terradillos de los Templarios Official: 26.13 km // iPhone Step Count: 25.6 km **I have been wrestling with the following reflection for several…
Camino de Santiago

Do you love me?

7 Jun 20194 Nov 2020
In tonight’s Gospel, we hear Jesus ask Peter three times the question, “Do you love me?” Understanding John’s Gospel and the intent of his writing, we understand that the author…
Public Theology & Spirituality

Oh… So you’re religious?

18 Dec 20184 Nov 2020
Recently I was speaking with some people about faith and religion, and the question that I dread, inevitably was asked, "Do you believe in God? Are you religious?" I dread…
Public Theology & Spirituality

“Go back to wherever the fuck you came from!”

12 Dec 20184 Nov 2020
If I were to reimagine the infancy narrative of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke using modern language, I might consider the switch from, “There was no place…
Public Theology & Spirituality

Won’t Be Home for Christmas

10 Dec 20184 Nov 2020
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Happiness and cheer! Around each corner, timeless songs echo through the air. Smiles seem to be wrapped with a bow upon the…
Public Theology & Spirituality

Can you notice the difference?

10 Nov 20184 Nov 2020
Sitting in a small, un-air-conditioned room in the sweltering heat of a summer in Shanghai, China, as I was entering my senior year of college at Xavier University, I posed…
Public Theology & Spirituality

What do you do on Father’s Day, when your father is gone?

16 Jun 20174 Nov 2020
I have not been home for Father’s Day for most of the last 10 years, so by and large Father’s Days consisted of a short phone call or maybe a card.…

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