Not in Bondage – Sep. 28, 2021
“We cannot literally go back in time and undo what we did. And yet, repentance is precisely that process by which we can — in the moral realm, if not in the physical realm — we can go back to the deed, we can find that part of ourselves that led to doing the transgression, […]
Truth Over Deception – Sep. 27, 2021
“Sin is about pretending that something is true when in fact it is not. Idolatry is pretending that something is divine and worthy of our devotion when in fact it is not… Repentance is about choosing truth over deception.” –Louis Newman, On Being interview with Krista Tippett [The readings this week are excerpted from Krista […]
Cutting Our Losses
If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to hell [Gei-Hinnom], to unquenchable fire!* As someone who doesn’t believe in hell, or in the kind of God who would send people there, what do I do with […]
Co-creators – Feb. 5, 2021
“When you look at our continent [of South America], where more than two thirds of the people live in sub-human conditions as a result of injustices, and when you see that the same situation is repeated all over the world, how can you help wanting to work towards human liberation? Just as the Father, the […]
