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Showing posts with label 14.Religions.Covenants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 14.Religions.Covenants. Show all posts
2025-03-05

The Inclusive Gospel of School Chaplaincy

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Especially on Christian High Holy Days like Ash Wednesday, I am asked how School Chaplains proclaim the Good News of Jesus in the midst of a...
2024-08-19

The Incarnation and divine embodiments

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The Truth of the unique top-down Kenosis of God who becomes incarnate in the person of Jesus of Nazareth does not need to be in conflict wit...
2024-06-18

World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts

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If you are a Religious Practitioner, Spiritual Person, Student of Theology, or just love understanding how people make sense of the world an...
2023-09-08

The Particular Exclusiveness of Generic Deism

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As a chaplain, there is a view I often run across among non-religious, college-educated folks in postmodern western culture that Christianit...
2023-06-26

Imagining a Divine Covenant with Artificial Intelligence

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What if God made a Covenant with Artificial Intelligence in a way similar to God's many Covenants with different groups of people in Scr...
2023-05-21

The Magi In My Life

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This is an Epiphany sermon based in the story of the magi from Matthew 2.1-11 , as well as the Episcopal School of Dallas virtue of “Opennes...
2023-02-19

Christ's Way and the ways of religion

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  For years I have been teaching on Global Religions and Comparative Theology, with a particular passion for talking about how Christ relate...
2022-07-26

Should we rethink the dates of the New Testament?

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Recently, New Testament scholar Jonathan Bernier has put forth a powerful proposal about  " Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament ...
2022-06-30

Weekly World Scripture Readings

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From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through the faithfulness which is in Christ Je...
2021-11-24

Religious Fascination

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I am fascinated by religion, and the process by which humans have created structures and norms and beliefs and practices which allow us to c...
2020-01-15

Three Ways to teach World Scriptures

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In the modern era, there seems to be two major ways of teaching Scripture: As Oracle and as Literature. The Oracle view treats one set of...
2019-12-18

Consumerism, Yoga, and Meditation

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Over the last two decades there have been a vast number of studies which document the effectiveness of mindfulness and meditation on ever...
2019-05-17

Visions of Ultimate Reality

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Ultimate Reality and Visions of Truth The goal of our spiritual journey is to explore what is True, pursue what is Good, and practice wha...
2018-02-24

The Cosmic Christ

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In the restless sleep of the flu, I was awakened with this running through my mind...
2018-01-22

Religion and Incarnation, Exclusivism and Inclusivism

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In this short essay, I would like to fill out a few aspects of what it means to have an inclusivist vision of religions in relation to Je...
2017-12-17

A Theology of Jesus and Aliens

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I recently got into a discussion with someone about the growing evidence that our planet has been visited by Extraterrestrial Beings fo...
2017-09-13

Following Jesus without God?

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As many who read this blog know, I am a Christian priest who serves as a school chaplain and head of religious studies at an Episcopal Mi...
2017-08-25

Eyes to see

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If you don't believe In the East's endless cycle of Samsara In the West's Fall into Original Sin In Nietzsche's Eternal ...
2017-06-16

Holy Crap

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This is a poem inspired by Philippians 3.8 and it is not for the easily offended. So if you are easily offended, please read something el...
2017-01-30

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?

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I see this question a great deal on the interwebs, lots of people ask me my educated opinion, and there are dozens or hundreds of books w...