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October 2022

October 02, 2022

The Bento Box Rule of Life

If you were to look through my journals over the last few years, you would...

September 2022

September 02, 2022

Grandma’s Prayers

Praying in Chorus It's difficult to describe, for those who have never heard it, what...

March 2022

March 09, 2022

The God of Darkness

It’s easy to trust the God of light. I am learning to trust the God...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

A Boring Apocalypse: What Does God Experience When I Pray?

Prayer is boring In Luke chapter 9, Jesus goes up a mountain to pray as...

January 2022

January 15, 2022

Does God Have Ideas? 

Theologians—especially premodern ones—often use the language of divine ideas to talk about God’s work of...

November 2021

November 13, 2021

Can There Be a Theology of Poetry?

Therefore the mind finds metaphor. ... How I see better what is there after sitting...

October 2021

October 20, 2021

Contemplation of a Child

The Burning Bush There is a burning bush at the heart of all things, Maximus...

October 09, 2021

The Cross as the Meaning of Suffering

The posts in this column contemplate our diagonal connection to God. I have written here,...

October 02, 2021

Coffee with Maximus: The Five Stages of Contemplating God

Contemplating God The posts in this column speak, directly or indirectly, about contemplating God. But...

September 2021

September 29, 2021

Yahweh: The God beyond Verb Tenses

In Exodus, when God reveals God’s proper true name to Moses, God makes up a...

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