When we toss theology and doctrine, all of which was invented by the Church of Rome during the 400 years between Jesus’ crucifixion and the closing of the Canon, with the Church coming up with the catchy slogan, “This is what Jesus did for you and you are going straight to hell if you don’tContinue reading “October 22, 2025”
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October 16, 2025 – B
The Garden of Eden did not exist. Adam and Eve are not real people. The story is about the danger of wanting the wrong things, of caring about things that do not matter. It is a great story. And terrible theology. All theology is terrible. Theology is a collection of opinions about hearsay. There isContinue reading “October 16, 2025 – B”
September 25, 2025
The old Taoists were right about it all. “Circumstances begetting circumstances,”was their explanation for everything being what it is.Circumstances call for what needs to happen next.And we are called, by our circumstances,to size things up and determine what is called for here, now, and do the right thing, at the right time,in the right way,andContinue reading “September 25, 2025”
September 02, 2025
What holds us together?What makes us One?Kindness and compassion come to mind.Psyche and the ideas we share in common. Good faith in/with each other,and the desire to be soulmates along the way.”Good faith” for me means the willing/willful intention to be who we say we are.Integrity, sincerity, authenticity.Beyond that, the Void. No?I participated in aContinue reading “September 02, 2025”
Fall Months, 2025
Being who we are, where we are, when we are, how we are is integrity, being expressing/exhibiting being.Integrity comes easy with rocks and oceans and things that have no choice in the matter. A bumble bee just is. The universe is crammed with things that are what they are and can’t help it or doContinue reading “Fall Months, 2025”
August 21, 2025
I’m thinking Psyche is something all life shares/has in common. All living things are one in this way. Consciousness is more or less aware of that connection. Emptiness/stillness/silence (one thing not three), or meditation/reflection, enhances/deepens/expands that connection, and we work together in the service of what is called for here, now, for the mutual goodContinue reading “August 21, 2025”
August 01, 2025
The church was before the Bible.First the church then the Bible. The Bible says what it says because that is what the church wanted it to say. And the truth needs to be known so that then we can get to the truth.The truth is quite different from what we have been told,because what weContinue reading “August 01, 2025”
August, 2025
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”
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”
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