by Doug Hammack | Mar 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve done a lot of posts lately about rethinking the images of God that inform our spiritual lives. To sum up, we’re exploring what kind of spiritual journey we experience if we begin to describe God with non-person images- We’re using movement and presence...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
I just finished a series of posts and will start another soon. In it I’ll think about why so many of us don’t pray any more. Maybe if we approach prayer through the lens of a oneness spiritual worldview, there is some relevance there for us. But I need to...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
We’ve spent a few weeks in these posts, talking about how different images of God produce different emphases in our spiritual lives, and call us to walk different paths on the spiritual journey. I conclude this series of posts, with some thoughts on how thinking...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Regular readers will recall that we began this series of posts, looking at Psalm 139. It speaks of being unable to hide from God’s presence. We saw that when we think of God as a Cosmic Big Brother, this can be a troubling concept. However, when we think of God as...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
John Donne’s words about the tolling of the bell are familiar to many. But I had never heard the quote’s background. Donne penned the words for a funeral in the 1500’s. Here is a the quote in context: “All of mankind is of one author, and is one...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
In these posts, we’re comparing and contrasting two different ways of thinking about God; the “guy-in-the-sky” image of God, and the “Ground-of-All-Being” one. Our starting point was Ps. 139. It is an ancient spiritual poem that hits on a word theologians...
