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Elaine, How I Love Thee
Music to accompany this post.The last few weeks I have been falling in love with my wife all over again. It is like a spiritual awakening. I am seeing her with fresh eyes. I see the wrinkles forming...
Defining Spirituality
Borrowing some from Rolheiser, I would define Spirituality as what we do to sort out and express the divine madness in our souls. The restless longing of the dreamer, the quixotic refusing to accept...
Spirituality meets pavement
Of all the spiritualities Rolheiser talks about, it is the spirituality of sexuality that has stuck with me most. Through it, I have seen how I can refocus my madness, my eros, into a life giving las...
The Environment: a field for biblical social justice
I've been discovering that to help bring about real social justice I need to focus first of all in changing things in my sphere of influence. This means removing myself from systems that perpetuate i...
Is there sex in heaven?
Holy Longing talks about a heavenly sexuality. I have been thinking along these lines for a while, so here is a good chunk of what Rolhieser said:Janis Joplin was once asked what it was like being a ...
What if this Lon Kauffman print was about Social Justice?
I imagine the horizon line is the edge of what Anaxamander called the boundless. Or as Rolheiser puts it, the turbulent silent power of God that underlies all that is. That line is the thin veil, the...
The silent power of God
What is the purpose of pentecostal power? If it is mystical, then what is the purpose of contemplation? It desires to do. Foster calls the charismatic stream the power to do while the holiness tradi...
Tilting at windmills
In Holy Longing Ronald Rolheiser suggests that Social Justice is different from personal charity, that if we are to engage in Social Justice, we must address the systemic concerns of injustice rather ...
Defining Spiritual Formation
Rolheiser suggests that Private prayer, private morality, social justice, mellowness of heart, and involvment in a concrete community are “nonnegotiable essensials” to the formation of classic Chr...