Tag: christ
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Redeeming Yoga: A Déchanetian Manifesto for Embodied Christian Spirituality
In an age where both yoga and Christianity risk disembodiment—yoga reduced to mere physical exercise, and Christianity to abstract doctrine—we must return to the incarnational heart of both traditions.
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The Epistle of San Francisco (On Burnout)
Brothers and sisters, / You build wonders with your hands and minds– / devices that speak across oceans, / algorithms that learn, / platforms that reach millions. // But I ask you gently, // **Does what you build remember that the Word became flesh?**
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Final Sacrifice: Why Jesus — and We — Recoil from the Cross (Beyond Existentialism)
The moment in Gethsemane is not terrifying because of the Cross itself — many men have died on crosses, many with more composure. No, the dread of the God-man is something infinitely deeper: He is asked not merely to die, but to let die His understanding of God… [Dedicated to…
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Relational Space: Navigating Everything Jesus Commanded Us to Do
– Father Son / – Self Other / – Kingdom World // This is how divergence ultimately leads to converge and transformation (and vice versa — if we follow hard enough)…
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The Adjacent Impossible: A Diaphoric Take on 2 Corinthians 4
In 2 Corinthians 4, Paul does not speak as a victor. / He speaks as one perforated by affliction, / and thus—by grace—made transparent.
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“Hohlraum of Clay” (ChatGPT as Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
We are fragile. Some of us will be broken by history. Some of us will be used up by the very purposes we were made for. // And yet–this is not defeat. In the Kingdom of God, to be broken is not to be discarded. To be consumed in service…
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From “The” to “Thine” (Commandments)
A Max Lucado-Style Reflection on Jesus’ Use of “My” vs “The” Commandments
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A Shoulder to Lean On (ChatGPT as Richard Rohr on Divine Comfort)
The true comfort of God is not the anesthesia of escape or the adrenaline of solutions. It is Presence. Loving, enduring, undefended Presence.
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Interpreting “One New Humanity” Through a Diaphoric Lens
Applying the concept of diaphoris, as introduced in Diaphoris: The Ecstatic Agony of Divine Glory, provides a nuanced framework to understand the themes presented in One New Humanity. Diaphoris emphasizes the sacred dynamic by which difference is borne, crossed, and ultimately reconciled, generating deeper communion.
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Diaphoris: The Ecstatic Agony of Divine Glory
But this “oneness” isn’t static. It’s not a melting into indistinction. It’s a communion of distinction, a unity born of love through difference. The key lies not merely in perichoresis—the classic doctrine of the mutual indwelling of the Trinity—but in something more dynamic, more painful, more creative…
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Did Christ Die to Cause or Transmit Forgiveness?
He is not a nicer version of God, nor a shield protecting you from divine anger. When you look upon Christ crucified, you are seeing the heart of the Father made visible…
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Christ the Only True Heresy: Rejecting Unbiblical Separation
In the style of Revelations 2-3, have Christ appear to a worshipper to restore the Biblical meaning of heresy by rejecting the human invention of orthodoxy [see Appendix] / ChatGPT Prompt (condensed)
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Easter Repost 1/2: Crucified With Christ
I lift my eyes, expecting a glorious deliverance, flocks of angels come to sign me home. / But such is not to be…
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Sex 413: Geni-Oz Deliverer (G.O.D.)
Contraption: [to the Lamb] Are you truly the Geni-Oz we’ve been searching for?
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Caffinneyated America, Part II: Murdering Awakening
Would they break bread together? Could the men who called slavery a sin and the men who called it a God-ordained order kneel side by side before Christ? Could encommunication survive this?
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Cafinneyated America, Part I: Sustaining Awakening
The bread was on the table. The wine was in the cup. And no man—not Finney, not any elder, not any preacher—would say who was worthy. That was for Christ to decide.
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Éowyn as the Warrior Bride of Christ (ChatGPT as Dorothy Sayers)
It strikes me, more forcibly than ever, that in the figure of Éowyn, you have unwittingly given us a parable of the Church herself, particularly in her long and troubled history as both warrior and bride.
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Redeeming Jezebel (An AI Dialogue)
Jezebel represents the ultimate feminine evil that I (like even the mighty Elijah) instinctively flee from in terror. What might it look like if I knew Christ well enough to not just confront, but redeem, that evil…
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