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September 2013

September 20, 2013

The Difference Between Religion and Spirituality

While the Christ Path blog goes through a re-visioning process, we will be sharing some...

September 16, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: Creating Communities in the Service of Life

And so we reach the last of our excerpts from Occupy Spirituality exploring the ways...

September 13, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: Redefining Leadership as Dynamic, Democratic and Authentic

As we’ve interviewed the young people of the Occupy generation, we’ve witnessed them giving birth...

September 11, 2013

Spirituality: Where Seriousness and Playfulness Meet

We’ve looked at passion, practice, prophecy and purpose – all elements of the spirituality that...

September 06, 2013

Spirituality Combined with A Call to Action

For many fundamentalists, religious practice revolves around one inward-looking question: Am I saved? As the...

September 04, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: A Dance between Body, Mind and Soul

If the spirituality of the Occupy Generation as an ongoing dialogue between experience and concept...

September 02, 2013

Faith in the Occupy Generation: Balancing Concept and Experience

We started this series of posts by looking at the first of seven themes that...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Bypassing Institution for Essence: Young People Seek a More Authentic Spirituality

What is the spirituality of the younger generation? Are they falling away from God as...

August 28, 2013

Do You Dare to Stand Near to Jesus – Near to the Fire?

We are continuing our exploration of the Gospel of Thomas with logion 82, where Jesus...

August 23, 2013

A New Generation Birthing the Beloved Community

As America marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and the historic speech...

August 21, 2013

Unveiling Jesus’ Reality: Not the Usual Transcendental Twaddle

Now we will turn to logion 77: “I am the light which is above them...

August 19, 2013

Why Being a Good Girl or Boy Will Not Get You Up There to Heaven

So we are continuing our journey of radical transformation through the logions of the Gospel...

August 14, 2013

Are You Prepared for the Shattering Risk of Finding the Divine – in Yourself?

Over the next seven posts, I will introduce selected logions from the Gospel of Thomas,...

August 12, 2013

The Gospel of Thomas – A Road Map to Transfiguration

I am not writing to you today as someone who wants to present a scholarly...

August 09, 2013

The Kingdom of God is US – Each and All!

So Jesus was shaking up both the political and religious institutions of his day with...

August 07, 2013

Shaking up Empires and Priesthoods for the Sake of the Kingdom of God

So – we’ve looked at Jesus’ deconstructing the false gods of his day. But why...

August 05, 2013

What Are the False Gods of Our World?

Jesus talks a lot about false gods. He’s talking about idolatry all the time, and...

August 01, 2013

A Radical Vision for a New Generation

"'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people....

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Don’t Spend Years Studying Jesus – Put His Teaching into Action!

So in what way was Jesus a prophet? There are so many ways…but let’s look...

July 29, 2013

Encountering Jesus from a New Perspective

So who was Jesus the revolutionary? To answer that question, we need to look at...

July 26, 2013

Unmasking the Shadow Force that’s Driving Our Economy

Before I move on to look at Jesus as a revolutionary, I want to take...

July 24, 2013

What Would Jesus Protest Today?

In my last post we looked at the men and women who are risking their...

July 22, 2013

Look Around – You Can See What Jesus Saw, Today

There’s such a depth and breadth to what Jesus did and called forth in his...

July 19, 2013

Are We Reading the Jesus Story for Inspiration –
or Incitement?

I want to welcome you to the conversations of the second Christ Path Seminar –...

July 17, 2013

My Personal Encounter with the Christ

So we’ve looked at some personal experiences of walking the Christ Path…but what might it...

July 15, 2013

Walking the Christ Path Through Life and Death Experiences

I’ve shared two stories with you on the experience of walking the Christ Path. The...

July 12, 2013

Healing Hands and Mended Ankles – Walking with the Beloved

In my last post, I said very grand things about the transformative power of an...

July 08, 2013

Walking the Christ Path in Transformation: Fierce Compassion

So we’ve looked at the four paths of Creation Spirituality – the awe-inspiring, wonderful cosmic...

July 05, 2013

Walking the Christ Path in Transformation:
Com/passion and Celebration

So out of the awe and wonder and cosmic connection, and the grief and loss...

July 03, 2013

Walking the Christ Path in Creativity and Transformation

So now we’ve looked at two of the paths of Creation Spirituality as we walk...