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August 2023

August 29, 2023

Why Progressives Need To Stop Rescuing Their Evangelical Friends/Family

After working with over a hundred people who are deconstructing their faith over the last...

August 25, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Bring Forth What Is Within You

SAYING 70 Jesus said, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring...

August 22, 2023

What If God Isn’t Love?

I have a friend who always challenges this assumption that God is Love every time...

August 21, 2023

Why Jacob Is A Metaphor For The Religious Mind

A friend brought up the character Jacob from the Bible in conversation with me last...

August 19, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Blessed Are the Hungry

SAYING 69: Jesus said, “Blessed are those who have been persecuted in their heart; these...

August 04, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Show Me The Stone

SAYING 66: Jesus said: “Show me the stone which the builders rejected; it is the...

July 2023

July 28, 2023

Why The World, and the Church, Rejects The Message of Jesus

It's quite common for Christians to bemoan the fact that the "World" - meaning non-Christians...

July 28, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: The Parable of Separation

SAYING 65: He [Jesus] said, "A [kind] man owned a vineyard, and put it in...

July 21, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: The Commerce of the Kingdom

SAYING 64: Jesus said, "A man was receiving out-of-town visitors. And having prepared the dinner,...

July 07, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: To Those Who Seek Mysteries

SAYING 62: Jesus said, "It is to those who seek my mysteries that I reveal...

June 2023

June 30, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: That Which Is Integrated

SAYING 61: Jesus said, "Two will repose on a couch: one will die, one...

June 23, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: A Place of Rest Within Yourself

SAYING 60: [The saw] a Samaritan carrying a lamb as he went into Judaea....

June 16, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Look For The Living One

SAYING 59: “Jesus said, "Look for the Living One while you are alive to His...

June 10, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Blessed Is The One Who Labors And Finds Life

SAYING 58: Jesus said, "Blessed is the person who has labored and found life." This...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Finding The Corpse

SAYING 56: Jesus said, "Whoever has become acquainted with the world has found a corpse,...

May 25, 2023

Embracing Mercerism: The Futuristic Religion of Philip K. Dick

In his novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, author Philip K. Dick imagines a...

May 19, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Refuse To Be Divided

SAYING 55: Jesus said, "Those who do not hate their fathers and their mothers...

May 12, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Blessed Are The Poor

Saying 54: Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor, for yours in the Kingdom of God.”...

May 05, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: The Benefits of Spiritual Circumcision

Saying 53: His disciples said to him, “Is circumcision beneficial or not?” He said to...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: He Who Lives In Your Presence

Saying 52: His disciples said to him, “Twenty-four prophets spoke in Israel, and they...

April 20, 2023

The Shocking Truth About Jesus, Horus and Mithras

Let me start off by telling you a story first. See if you’ve heard...

April 15, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: The New World Has Already Come

Saying 51: His disciples said to him, ‘On what day will the repose of the...

March 2023

March 27, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Blessed Are The Whole Ones

Saying 49: Jesus said, “Blessed are the whole ones and the chosen for you...

March 24, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: If Two Make Peace

Saying 48: Jesus said, "If two make peace with one another within a single house...

March 23, 2023

Top 10 Reasons To Deconstruct Your Faith

I came across a fascinating article the other day in a most unexpected place -...

March 17, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Riding Two Horses?

Saying 47: Jesus said, "A person cannot (at the same time) mount two horses...

March 10, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Becoming Little

Saying 46: Jesus said, "From Adam unto John the Baptist there has been none...

March 03, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Shadows and Light

SAYING 45: Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees, nor are figs...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

INNER CIRCLE: Neither On Earth Nor In Heaven

SAYING 44: Jesus said, "Whoever utters blasphemy against the father will be forgiven. And whoever...

February 21, 2023

The Kingdom Is Within You

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he...