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November 2019

November 01, 2019

James Baldwin: Prophet of Love

James Baldwin is a prophet for troubled times. Baldwin was a black, gay, renowned novelist...

September 2019

September 27, 2019

A Few Ordinary Mystics and a Declaration of Conscience (Guest Post by Roy Hoagland)

I love the moniker “ordinary mystic.” It resonates with me. In contrast, the word “mystic,”...

September 19, 2019

Retrieving Angels, or Why Faith Must be at Least as Strange as the Universe

The universe is strange.  Here are a few paraphrased facts from an article I stumbled across: If you...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Prayer and Orgasm Have More in Common Than You Think (Guest Post by Kelly Deutsch)

I can’t remember the first time it happened in prayer. But I remember the first...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

When Art Disrupts Religion, by Philip Francis (Book Review)

Note: This article appears in SEEN Journal, Issue XVII, a publication of Christians in the Visual...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

Teresa of Avila, the Interior Castle, and Heavenly Dwelling Places

The soul is a castle, according to 16th century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila, in...

March 16, 2019

The Dark Night of Sense and the Problem with More – Kosmos Journal

The below is excerpted from my article in Kosmos Journal's Fall 2018 issue. It can...

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