ReImagining
Christianity

The idea of pilgrimage as prayer permeates many spiritual traditions, yet is a concept that is frequently overlooked in works on prayer. Of all the spiritual traditions that hold to this concept, perhaps none made it as integral to their faith as did the ancient Celts.

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When Jesus delivered the Lord's Prayer he did so in Aramaic. Our English versions leave much unsaid.

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Nothing can be lost unless it first already had a home. Nothing, no one can be lost if they did not already belong. Nothing, no one, can lose their worth just because they are temporally not where they belong.

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Both David Bently Hart and George MacDonald hold to some sort of purgatorial remediation. I think such a view contradicts the concept of God as Pure Love.

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We take a look at two of Jesus’ parables: The Parable of the Mustard Seed and the Parable of the Good Samaritan—a parable about a miniscule seed and a despised outcast. At first glance they seem to be unrelated. What does a miniscule seed have to do with an outcast?

I suggest, everything.

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The problem comes when we allow the masculine nature of God to over shadows the feminine nature of God. So, I thought Mother’s Day might be a good time to look at the feminine side of God.

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George Fox believed way to look at the words of Jesus is to accepted them at face value, not to load them with preconceived theological understanding. This is how we are going to approach the story of the Prodigal Son.

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This is what I find exciting about Celtic Christianity! Celtic Christianity reminds us that we –animate and inanimate – are family. Celtic Christianity reminds us that we have a responsibility for the well-being of the entirety of creation.

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The problem with re-imagining Christianity is that we often seek to re-imagine it within the same old traditional Christian paradigms. {A premise for reimagining new paradigms.]

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A good friend recently asked if I believed God still gives revelation that rises to a level equal to the authority of written Canon (Guest Essay).

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The marriage of Christian fundamentalism and market fundamentalism (Guest Essay).

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