Thorns and Love
Robert BrewerHave you ever felt that you didn't fit into conventional organized religion? That may be because you experience spirituality like poetry, and the divine like a spring or fountain, and feel the spirit on the winds. So do I.
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The Value of Sensation
William James described religious experience as something deeply rooted in sensation, arising in moments of awe, unity or surrender before intellectual explanation, rather than as doctrine. Similarly, Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued that perce...
Dreams and Allegories
I woke with a line from Joni Mitchell’s song Big Yellow Taxi circling in my mind: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Sleep would not return, so I rose.
In the kitchen, as the coffee brewed, I...
Visionaries
Some people experience life as being more than merely mundane. They sense, at times, that reality has depth; that something shimmers beneath the visible surface. They see ‘between the lines’ or apprehend the full truth of a fleeting scene....
Truth-Telling
This is true, which is why some people experience difficulties with Christianity. The Gospel narratives and the stories of the Hebrew Bible do not align neatly with lived experience. When read literally, they often defy reason and observati...
What is Authentic Christianity?
I’ve been sketching an alternative story in which the Christ figure begins as a deliberate theological-literary construction. First, a Hellenised Pharisaic philosophy with an architect named Saul, then a tragic narrative layered with mythic...
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I’m a European, born in England, and 70 years of age. I indulge my true passions: people-watching, reading, and writing. My Substack is free and has all the details you’d ever want to know (and maybe some you didn’t!).
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