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2020-07-11T02:06:20-07:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The Empire Is Not Good News

Last updated on: July 11, 2020 at 2:06 am By Jordan Hathcock

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.-Dr. Cornel West How are we (I.e., American “Christians”) supposed to *act* in our current climate where the pandemic reigns, systemic racism runs rapid and the economic state is at its worse sense the... Read more

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2020-05-14T04:54:23-07:00

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Jubilee State Of Mind

Last updated on: May 14, 2020 at 4:54 am By Jordan Hathcock

Central to God’s covenant with ancient Israel (the spiritual ancestors of Jews, Christians, and Muslims), these laws describe and prescribe what the new life beyond “Egypt”—at that time seen as a symbol of bondage, economic exploitation, impoverishment, and slavery—is to be like. They embody God’s dream, God’s passion for a different kind of life on earth, here and now, in this world. – Marcus Borg What do we do when we are placed in a time with so much uncertainty... Read more

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2020-03-08T23:07:06-07:00

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The Rites to Freedom

Last updated on: March 8, 2020 at 11:07 pm By Jordan Hathcock

Ritual is simply a set of practices in a period of chaos so we can experience the chaos safely. –Jason Coker In a time of unrest and chaos, the tool that seems to work most effectively is the practice of rites and rituals. Now, this can be (and most likely is) triggering for most of us who have experienced unhealthy spiritual practices. Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS) is something more and more people are dealing with and I know its... Read more

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2020-02-03T22:17:54-08:00

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Curative Icon

Last updated on: February 3, 2020 at 10:17 pm By Jordan Hathcock

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world’s main religions? – Polly Toynbee When we Westerners create our icons, we do delve into the human figures throughout our history. There is something to say about the way an icon moves us to heal and liberate ourselves and the people around us. An icon can also have the opposite affect: Imprison and damage our... Read more

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2020-01-10T00:13:35-08:00

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The Empire Creed: Lex Talionis

Last updated on: January 10, 2020 at 12:13 am By Jordan Hathcock

With the most recent events regarding the U.S. and the assassination of Iran’s Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, it’s hard not to feel the weight of the endless war games that come with countries “eye for an eye” agendas. This is nothing new. Throughout human civilization we have seen the non-stop vicious cycle of destruction when violent military actions is ensued upon others due to the law of retaliation mentality. When will we ever learn? Coming from the American perspective,... Read more

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2019-12-27T20:38:05-08:00

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The Old is in the New

Last updated on: December 27, 2019 at 8:38 pm By Jordan Hathcock

We don’t want the Christian tradition to become an antique shop just preserving old things. We want to build on old things and allow them to be useful in different ages, vocabularies, and cultures. We want our faith to be ever new, so that it can speak to souls alive and in need right now! – Richard Rohr During the holiday season, we can see the old ways of tradition booming forth within each culture context. In most Western societies, the... Read more

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2019-11-08T05:17:10-08:00

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Bust-up…It’s Prophetic!

Last updated on: November 8, 2019 at 5:17 am By Jordan Hathcock

“A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”- Alan Watts When exploring the comedic landscape, be it stand-up or just laughing with buddies, what we discover is total-unsaturated freedom. I mean, come on! You know you cannot deny when a good joke hits your soul, you... Read more

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2022-03-26T11:54:09-07:00

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Future Tripping Faith

Last updated on: March 26, 2022 at 11:54 am By Jordan Hathcock

“It’s difficult to avoid all the crisis talk that fills the airwaves: climate change, debt, food deserts, clean water, masses of discarded plastic filling the oceans, populism nationalism, racism, shootings, stabbings, the list goes on and on. And apparently it is not just the poor and the middle-class who are feeling the pressures and concerns of all this, we all seem to have lost sight of the future.”- Barry Taylor Within the Christian tradition, the future has always been... Read more

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2019-09-26T20:54:49-07:00

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Rat Race…Selah!

Last updated on: September 26, 2019 at 8:54 pm By Jordan Hathcock

“We criticize anyone who tries to break away from the rat race, because the idea that there is a way out scares us more than dying in the state we’re in” – Cic Mellace How is everybody’s work week going? Loving it, or what? Are you feeling like what you do within your work week is really providing the best for you and others around you? I will be perfectly honest: I don’t. And, I am not alone. Majority of... Read more

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2019-09-09T03:29:03-07:00

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Camaraderie

Last updated on: September 9, 2019 at 3:29 am By Jordan Hathcock

“That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love because there’s nothing in it for anybody.”[1.] It’s hard to imagine not experiencing the amazing journey of friendship. We all can become a little oblivious when it comes to the incredible gift of relationship truly is. Let’s not forget, many individuals don’t even get to experience genuine friendship throughout their lives. As study shows, more and more people are not developing meaningful friendships and thus, not able to create... Read more

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