What is belonging?
What enables belonging?
And what enables the specific belonging to the concept mystery commonly referred to as “The Kingdom of God”?
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Belonging is coherence.
It is Home. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for May, 2009
The “Kingdom”: of God?
Part of a syncroblog on the “The Kingdom of God.” For other posts, see below.
“In essentials, unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things, charity.”
Most people agree that these words are deserving of full acceptance. But I’ll guarantee that despite their elegance, determining what exactly constitutes “essentials”, always seems to prove their undoing.
However, as far as Christians go, one notion that holds a considerable place as an “essential” is that of the “Kingdom of God.” This is after all the deep uniting theme that emerges from the known words of Jesus. The Kingdom of G-d, (Gk Basileia tou Theou) is for many the overarching raison d’être – the fundamental descriptor of G-d’s purpose in history, a notion bigger than say “salvation” or “Church”. Read the rest of this entry »
OM : re-imagining the Logos
Before Time itself was measured, the Voice was speaking. The Voice was and is God. This celestial voice remained ever present with the Creator; His speech shaped the entire cosmos. [John 1, The Voice]
OM. The eternal Word is all: what was, what is and what shall be, and what beyond is in Eternity. All is OM. [Mandukya Upanishad]
Exclusivism cries foul on my right, and pan-anythingism beckons on my left. Christianity demands that I conform to its interpretations of “the way, the truth, and the life”, as Eastern philosophy calls me away from māyā, my illusions. But I engage the fracas, because I believe a re-imagining is not an optional extra. And specifically, re-imagining the bankrupt Modern Christian tradition. Read the rest of this entry »
