Please consider your spirit*. Because it is experienced, at least part of the spirit resides in our bodies. When one has a spiritual experience, it is such because one’s physiology is engaged. In other words, spirit is something a human body does. Quite likely, other animal bodies do it too. One’s spirit is engaged inContinue reading “Your Spirit”
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Baptizing a House
Time is our one, truly unrenewable resource. Times of stress and other factors drastically alter one’s sense of time. In this pandemic, many people have expressed difficulty tracking time and finding meaning and productivity within all of the time they’d like. Days seem to slip by. Weeks sometimes vanish and one wanders what one didContinue reading “Baptizing a House”
Christ and the Monomyth
What is happening when someone sees a vision or dreams a dream? To be sure, many are the times that a cunning person has beguiled the simple yet earnest person by ascribing dubious actions to a vision or dream without basis. We must hold, however that some visions and dreams are a real experience onContinue reading “Christ and the Monomyth”
Monastic Desires: Vision
I’d like to weave the narrative that I live in a community of people mutually supporting each other and the common good through listening, growth, and stability. In short, I’d like to live a re-imagined monastic life. Monasticism is a global phenomena having arisen independently on virtually every continent. What I mean here when IContinue reading “Monastic Desires: Vision”
Eternal Life
Time is of the essence. Time is money. Almost everyone I know is paid by the hour, day, month, or year. Even those who aren’t, who are paid by the project, can often readily compute their estimated hourly wage. Almost in a way of checking to see if they are holding their place in theContinue reading “Eternal Life”
Repentance for Today
Repentance is a uniquely difficult pill to swallow. It is not absolution, contrition, remorse, guilt, conversion, rehabilitation, reformation, or responsibility. It is, however, closely related to all of these. Repentance is a verb describing the reorientations of the desires of one’s heart in a way that actions are expected to follow. Repentance is the learningContinue reading “Repentance for Today”
Mary Magdalene
Above all, what made Mary Magdalene significant for the early Church and the Middle Ages was the warm and vivid image of the beautiful and sinful woman repenting in tears and learning the secrets of the heart of God by her silent receptivity before the mystery of Love. -Benedicta Ward, SLG July 22nd is a dayContinue reading “Mary Magdalene”
Monastic Future
I want to live in a community of people mutually supporting each other and the common good through listening, growth, and stability. In short, I’d like to live a re-imagined monastic life. Monasticism is a global phenomena having arisen independently on virtually every continent. What I mean here when I reference ‘monasticism’ isn’t so muchContinue reading “Monastic Future”
Should Paul Have Gone to Jerusalem?
The book of Acts describes the actions of the people who had personally known Jesus, and their associates, after the Ascension. This group of people starts off as a small, mystical, economically diverse Jewish sect based in Jerusalem and the surrounding region keeping pretty much to where Jesus of Nazareth had traveled. Then Paul showsContinue reading “Should Paul Have Gone to Jerusalem?”
Daily Office: Monastic Prayer for Ordinary People
Think about your unconscious dialogue. You know, that little voice that’s like a running commentary and supervisor over what you’re doing. Sometimes we call that executive function. I think it can be something more primal. That voice determines Who You Are. It dictates actions and sets values. In the way a river carves its own bed,Continue reading “Daily Office: Monastic Prayer for Ordinary People”
Joshua David Kingsley 