Working With Oneness: New Metaphors for God

I’m back from some holiday/vacation days, so let’s get back to thinking about how we think about the God-Everything Reality more as oneness than twoness (review). *** When I was in high school, Jethro Tull came out with a popular album, Aqualung. On the...

Holiday Break #1

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Today I’m helping Denise cook and clean.  Then next week, we’re going away for a week (woo hoo!). I’ll resume posting in December (only to take another holiday break later in the month).  

Working With Oneness: Human Trafficking (2)

For my young friend off to combat human trafficking (last post), seeing through the lens of oneness or twoness makes a big difference in how he will marshal his efforts; experience his world. When we frame reality in the traditional “twoness” way, we join the majority...

Working With Oneness: Human Trafficking (1)

If, as I’ve suggested over the last several posts, “oneness” is a better lens for looking at our religion than “twoness,” the implications go deep. A young man in our community is off to Central America to work with an organization combating human trafficking. Before...

Gabor Mate: The Human Face of Addicition

I used to think of addiction as the experience of people “out there.” Addiction happened in crack houses with people who were far away from me and my middle-class life. But anybody who’s been paying attention realizes that is just not the case....