Early Interfaith Dialogue: Pseudo-Dionysius vs. the Pseudo-Contemplative

The Set-Up: From Outsiders to Mainstream Culture Welcome to the fourth century. Christianity has come a long way. The Jesus-followers are no longer a first century sect of Judaism struggling to define their faith. After a couple centuries complete with waves of persecution, the Edict of Milan (313 AD) significantly decreased the likelihood of martydom.

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Christ Lives in Me: Contemplative Christianity in the New Testament

A Bad Rap: Mysticism’s Fall From Glory Contemplative (mystical) Christianity is clearly present in the New Testament and is at the heart of the Christian faith. Contemplative Christianity (Christian mysticism) was all the rage up through the 1400’s. That’s a solid 15 centuries of being “cool”. Generally, folks embraced the concept of having a deep-hearted

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This Year’s New Year’s Resolution: “Somebody has to save our skins”

Don’t Get Cocky My boys are back into Star Wars recently. They just watched “Solo” yesterday morning, so I have all things George Lucas on the brain. Leia’s line and the inspiration for the title of this post is not far from the truth, though. Between COVID, climate change, racial injustice, political corruption, and a

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