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Yesterday we spoke about getting “drunk on God’s home, the universe” (from Thomas Aquinas’ one-word commentary on a psalm). Before going to bed last night
For too long Westerners have been alienated from the universe, stuck in our human-centered world. The new cosmic story can help us overcome that alienation.
I’ve been teaching for years that the via positiva for Westerners is more difficult to get than, for example, the via negativa. We love to
In a healthy environment, our first spiritual moments are moments of awe and wonder, and delight. The mystics call this the Via Positiva. When we
We have been discussing our experiences of the Divine as we undergo our oneings, our breakthroughs, our ecstasies even on an everyday basis. We have
If God is near and vitally present in all that exists, all of life, we see why ecstasy is the experience of God. Speaking theologically
Sister Jose Hobday, the Franciscan sister and Native American whom I cited a previously regarding the spiritual leadership of gay and lesbian people, told me
Marcia Falk proposes that the “Song of Songs,” may have “something new to teach about the redemption of sexuality and love in our fallen world.”*
We will soon be moving on from our discussion of sexuality as a natural ecstasy and a God experience. But we cannot ignore the political
One glaring example of the shadow side of sexuality that is alive and well in our times can be religion’s negative teachings around it. A
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