Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

In my opinion, all theology consists of collections of opinion about opinions (Hearsay). Roman Catholic opinion is different from Protestant opinion. Reformed opinion is a form of Protestant opinion that can be sub-divided into a myriad of somewhat related opinions. The same goes for Methodist and Baptist opinion, Pentecostal and Etc. opinion. Philosophy also consistsContinue reading “April 26-B, 2023”

If the good we call good were good, and if the right we call right were right, societies around the world would be equitable, racism and sexism, etc. would not exist, and everyone would live in the service of the best interest of one another. Third World countries would not be ransacked and vandalized byContinue reading “April 23-B, 2023”

We all face situations that call for a response from us. Some are serious situations, some are recurring situations, some are trivial, some are life changing… Our place is to know what is called for and to respond as well as we can out of the gifts of our original nature and the innate virtues/specialtiesContinue reading “April 22-A, 2023”

Orthodox Christian Theology has been around from well before the beginning of this country. “God” is assumed to be, taken for granted as, the background prop holding things together. “The Father Almighty.” “The Maker of Heaven and Earth.” “Garden of Eden,” “Sin,” “Atonement,” “Forgiveness,” “Hell,” “Blah, Blah, Blah…” All of it has been invented/inherited throughContinue reading “April 21-B, 2023”

“We are on the brink of something great!” What a difference for our country and the world if the Republican Party 60 years ago had made that the foundation of every Platform in every election cycle! And lived to make it happen! But it was not to be. The foundation of every platform in everyContinue reading “April 21-A, 2023”

Some ways of being in the world are better/worse than other ways of being in the world. Being Jesus is being ourselves with a particular spin on it. Being Jesus is also being the Buddha, and being Lao Tzu, and Chung Tzu, and Lei Tzu, and Wen Tzu… and all those who have known whatContinue reading “April 20-B, 2023”

We need more time! If we only had more time! Everything would become clear with time! That is the fundamental illusion. Jesus perpetuated the folly with his, “Wisdom is known by her children” line, and even if we extend the theory to the level of the grandchildren, or the great-grandchildren, wisdom still lies unrecognized byContinue reading “April 18 – A, 2023”

Photography is being where the photos live and waiting for them to appear. I stalk photographs like a leopard stalks a warthog. I troll for photographs the way shrimpers troll for shrimp. I get up early to be in place before sunrise, and stay out late to catch afterglow following sunset. I wait, and wait,Continue reading “April 17-A, 2023”

Wu Wei is action without effort, doing without thinking, without striving, without trying. “Do or do not!” said Yoda, “There is no TRY!” That is Wu Wei, doing or doing not as required by the moment, by the here/now. That is how we live in every moment. Being wholly “of the moment” as one “thusContinue reading “April 16-A, 2023”

On a large enough scale, nothing we do matters, and on a small enough scale, everything we do matters. I recommend living small. Live on the level where our next breath counts for something! Live on the level where what we think determines, or, at least, strongly influences, what we do, and where what weContinue reading “April 14-B, 2023”

We live our way into the presence of That Which Has Always Been Called God. And no one can tell us exactly how to do that. Those who know can tell us generally how to do it. Joseph Campbell said, “Follow your bliss.” That is as much as can be said. Beyond that, “The TaoContinue reading “April 13-B, 2023”

If you want to keep up with my other probing of reality, I’m also to be found at: 04/13/2023 – A and: https://www.clickasnap.com/jim-dollar –0– The path to transcendence is called the Tao. It is that simple and that complex. Transcendence is the heart of the matter. “The Tao that can be said is not theContinue reading “April 13-A, 2023”