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Symbols and the Divine Feminine
A recent post in this series on knowing God talked about the nature of symbols and how the ways we experience and speak of God can participate in the divine life, while never limiting or defining it. Symbols are great, and all of our language for God is symbolic. But we have to be careful … Continue reading Symbols and the Divine Feminine
Symbols and the Knowledge of God
Our language about God is symbolic, but what do we mean by 'symbolic'?
Entertaining Angels (An Integral Reading of Genesis 18.1-15)
In the most recent post in this series on Knowing God, I talked about the strange stories in the Scriptures about what it's like for humans to meet God, and how these stories all resort to playful, or even nonsensical, use of language to get across just how much of a jumbled and contradictory paradox … Continue reading Entertaining Angels (An Integral Reading of Genesis 18.1-15)
The God Who Can Be Known
I took a break from this series on knowing God over the last couple weeks of Advent and for the season of Christmas. So, I thought that it would be wise to take a step back and see where we've been so far and where we're going. The first few posts in this series focused … Continue reading The God Who Can Be Known
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