February 2024
"Chi Rho"
Book of Kells (Irish, ca. 800 ce.)
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An odd thought just occurred to me: f I were a Seventh-Day Adventist, I probably would not be eating the braunschweiger sandwich that I am now eating for lunch. Although not a 7th-Day Adventist it did get me thinking ...
We’re more likely to see God’s story in the lives of the marginalized than in the statecraft and political decision-making of the powerful." -Daniel K. Williams (April 26, 2022, "Current Magazine")
Where we look for the Side Street God Determines the God We find. But, Who? What? is the Side Street God?
The primordial myth of Creation, common to all peoples, tells of a mighty melody – the very breath of God – that sang Creation into existence. To the Celts of old she was known as the The Oran Mór,1 “The Great Melody.”
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not you will never really change. -D. H. Lawrence. That's what living in the Borderlands is all about.
Celtic Christianity can be summed up in two words: death and resurrection. They are the same experience from two perspectives. Both build upon the constant Celtic theme: “redemption through pilgrimage."