I am in favor of sexual health.  For some this means learning more about their sexuality and sluffing off a more prudish attitude. For others it may mean looking deeper within and learning how to say "no" to every temptation.  When the heart chakra is blocked during sexual activity, the person remains unsatisfied and the … Continue reading Second Chakra Blockage and Sexuality in the Media →

The following is how I often experience Centering Prayer.  For me, CP is the most effective meditation technique for delving into the very being of the Creator.  I'm not good at it, if one can even become good at such a thing, and I've only been doing CP for 2 years now. I sit upright … Continue reading Experience of Centering Prayer →

Sacred Wounds Only the wounded physician heals. --C. G. Jung [1] When life is hard, we are primed to learn something absolutely central. I call it God's special hiding place. The huge surprise of the Christian revelation is that the place of the wound is the place of the greatest gift. Our code phrase for this … Continue reading Sacred Wounds: Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation →

For the past few days, I have wanted to write down some reflections on what it is like for me to be in union with God.  This is not brag nor to boast, for I know experientially that union is gift and not of my merit.  When one speaks of union with God, it is … Continue reading The Experience of Union →

Our Living School faculty member James Finley was blessed to have Thomas Merton as his teacher and spiritual director from 1961 to 1967. Jim summarizes what he learned from Merton: "I looked on Thomas Merton as the living embodiment of the mystical, contemplative heritage of my own Christian tradition. . . . This ancient tradition … Continue reading Moving Beyond Tribal Religion: From Richard Rohr’s Daily Reading →

A.C. : One of the deep thinkers about “substituted love” was Charles Williams, the premier Inkling with CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.  http://library.taylor.edu/dotAsset/e8ae1cdc-8f2b-42af-8ade-eeee73fe6a86.pdf Is there a way to understand Jesus' Passion on the cross as indeed a sacrifice but not as an atonement?  Atonement Theology, which necessitates and angry, wrathful God who demands payment for … Continue reading Substituted Love and Atonement Theory with A.C. Comments →