My most formative religious experiences were a series of mystical experiences. They began to occur in my early thirties. They changed my understanding of the meaning of the word “God”-of what that word points to-and gave me an unshakable conviction that God (or “the sacred”) is real and can be experienced. These experiences also convinced [...]
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1 Jul 10
16 Mar 10
Without questioning, faith is idolatrous. Just as patriotism without questioning risks becoming idolatrous nationalism, so faith without questioning risks becoming idolatrous religion. To explain: when faith is defined as unquestioning acceptance of “tenets or traditions,” whether drawn from the Bible or doctrine or both, then the object of faith is no longer God, but the [...]
9 Mar 10
I pray all the time. I do not mean “every minute,” but many times a day. My understanding and practice of prayer are grounded in my understanding of God, the Sacred. I see God as a presence, as the one “in whom we live and move and have our being,” to quote words attributed to [...]
16 Feb 10
I believe that God is present everywhere, in everything – that the universe is shot through with the radiant presence of God. Thus we are always “in God,” even as God is more than the universe. But to say that God is everywhere and in everything does not mean that God is the cause, directly [...]
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