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
The story of Moses and the burning bush is etched in the minds of most of us who grew up in Sunday School or hearing Bible stories from our parents. Its beats are so familiar — Moses is tending sheep in the wilderness when he sees a bush burning with fire but not being burnt … Continue reading Naming Fire
Our language about God is symbolic, but what do we mean by 'symbolic'?
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 past posts in this series on knowing God have insisted on two paradoxical things: First, that our words, concepts, and experiences can never adequately describe God, and second, that God can nonetheless be known. With this in mind, the best word to describe God is probably Mystery. Contrary to what popular literary genres might … Continue reading Mysterious Encounters
Matthew Root 