The church was before the Bible.I know that I have said that already,but it is not catching on,and it is the most outstanding bit of revelation that has ever come along, and people are like, “Okay, but that doesn’t impact my life at all.”People are happy where they are.Revelation only works with people who haveContinue reading “August, 2025”
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July 30, 2025
The church was before the Bible.The church was 397 years (or better, between 367 and 401) before the Bible. Exactly when is a bit murky, but clear enough to be appalling.Let that sink in.The church–and this would be the Church of Rome,which became The Roman Catholic Church–had 397 years to get the Bible “right” inContinue reading “July 30, 2025”
July 24, 2025
“God doesn’t help us, God doesn’t hurt us. We live our own lives.” — Rebecca Dollar, 3rd grade.”A little child shall lead them,” Jesus telling it like it is.The children know. And, we know. But we dismiss what we know because of what we have been taught.”That we are sinful to the core and goingContinue reading “July 24, 2025”
July 18, 2025
The church came before the Bible–specifically the Church of Rome which took the lead in establishing the official version of the Bible in 397 CE. Which gave the Church 397 years to fine-tune the version of the Bible that was declared, by the Church, to be “The Word of God,” but which actually was theContinue reading “July 18, 2025”
June 05, 2025
Think of this image as theology broadcast to thousands of people of a scene that never existed anywhere in real, actual, time.In real, actual time, the tree in the middle is the only one that is real and actual. At the time I took its picture, it lived across the street from my house inContinue reading “June 05, 2025”
May 16, 2025 – B
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) said, “The last leave-takingis leaving God for God.” Eckhart was a German Catholic who was found guilty of heresy and died (perhaps murdered) before his sentence was served. It takes a heretic to see/speak the truth, it seems.The leave-taking I have in mind is leaving the God of the Bible and theologyContinue reading “May 16, 2025 – B”
May 10, 2025
Sustaining, maintaining, regaining our balance and harmonyis the key to a well-lived life.Art, music and nature, trance states, babies and petshelp to center and focus us in order to do what is called for”on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.”And, That Which Has Always Been Called “God.”I say “That Which Has Always Been CalledContinue reading “May 10, 2025”
April 13, 2025
Next Sunday will be Easter Sunday.For forty years and six monthsI stood before some congregationand talked about the resurrection of Jesus.What I said changed considerably over that time.I am proud to be able to say that,because the overriding trend is for it not to change at all over the spanof 2,025 years.Do you believe JesusContinue reading “April 13, 2025”
March 17, 2025 – B
Reading through my old writings, I came across this gem of a dollarism:”One of the 10,000 Spiritual Laws states, ‘Our idea of God is not God.’ the Bible can be seen as the history of the evolution of the idea of God. If we read the Bible carefully, noting inconsistencies, contradictions, incompatibilities discrepancies and divergentContinue reading “March 17, 2025 – B”
December 26-B, 2024
It is well within the Reformed tradition—the Reformed Jewish tradition, that is–to see Jesus and John the Baptist as classical prophets of Judaism, come to proclaim “Now is the time!” To turn the light around and understand the present moment as the time and place for reformation of the religion of the forefathers and theContinue reading “December 26-B, 2024”
December 14, 2024
Jesus saying, “The Father and I are one,”and “In as much as you have done it to the least of these,you have done it unto me.”And Paul saying, “It is no longer I who live,but Christ who lives in me.” Sets the table for us to realizewe are one with Paul, one with Jesus, oneContinue reading “December 14, 2024”
November 17, 2024
1) All of the outstanding people of every age share the same “gifts of the spirit”with each other,namely, their original nature(different, though “the same” in all people),their innate virtues(What they did best and enjoyed doing most)and their intrinsic intuition.These are the things that set us all apart,yet make us all one.And no one,including Jesus andContinue reading “November 17, 2024”
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