A Goddess Who Swapped Bodies To Prove Gender Is An Illusion Nearly 2,000 years ago, a Buddhist goddess swapped bodies with a man to prove a point: male and female are empty designations. Here's what she meant.

👉 The goddess appears about halfway through the Vimalakirti Sutra, a Buddhist scripture. Her story seems simple, but it does a lot of doctrinal heavy lifting. Among other things, she tells us that male and female are empty designations that are not as real as we...

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Falling In Love Again: 11 Christian Marriage Practices A reflection on 20 years of Christian marriage, sharing simple practices, faith, and rhythms that help build a strong, lasting life together.

20 years of Christian marriage. Not perfect, but steady.

We’ve learned to say yes again and again through health challenges, raising kids, and building a quieter life.

A few simple practices have carried us.

This is our story.

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An Ecological Stations Of The Cross, 2026 Here is a liturgical resource to practice an Ecological Stations of the Cross as eco-anxiety and eco-grief are on the rise.

Rituals during Holy Week can help us process profound feelings of environmental loss due to war, species extinction, habitat loss, deforestation, and catastrophic weather events. Here is a liturgical resource for an Ecological Stations of the Cross. @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...

Palm Sunday Counters The Violence Of Christian Nationalism Palm Sunday follows on the heels of No Kings protests this year. Jesus's procession was a type of protest and counters Christian Nationalism.

On Palm Sunday, Christians can invoke the Spirit of Jesus to denounce the political and military systems of our time that are driven to commit crimes against humanity by the demonic ideology of Christian nationalism. @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...

Today's Trump-Created Chaos In 14 Quick Headlines Here are the headlines covering some of the Trump-created chaos Americans are facing right now.  Trump and his puppets in the Senate refuse to fund TSA.

👉Here are the headlines covering some of the Trump-created chaos Americans are facing right now. 👀

Trump and his puppets in the Senate refuse to fund TSA. Hawaii is experiencing a massive natural disaster and Trump hasn’t said a word about it, much less done...

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Redefining Success: The 2nd Act Of A California Beachcomber Richard Bode left the "safe route" to find an authentic life by the shore. Discover his 5 lessons on not just listening to your inner voice, but following it.

👉I’ve spent most of my life living in the Northeast, and this time of year I get antsy. By the middle of March, we’ve been teased by a few sunny, 60-plus degree days, the kind of weather that gets me thinking about my happy place: the beach. But just as day turns...
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A Faithful, Killer Roundhouse Kick! Remembering Chuck Norris “When Chuck Norris arrived at the gates of Heaven, St. Peter showed his ID to Chuck Norris” (Ian Spector, Chuck Norris Facts, 2005). "Better is the poor

👉The legendary martial artist Chuck Norris died on Thursday, March 19, at the age of 86 years old. Only a week earlier, Norris was celebrating his birthday. The now-famous line coming from that proverbial day is “I don’t age, I level up” (The Los Angeles Times...

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INNER CIRCLE: All Creation Awaits All creation awaits something miraculous. It’s not the second coming of Christ. No, it is simply this: the awakening of human consciousness..

All creation awaits something miraculous. It’s not the second coming of Christ. It’s not the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. It’s not the fulfillment of some ancient prophecy. No, it is simply this: the awakening of human consciousness.

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Pope, Bishops, Catholic Teaching Go Thumbs Down On Trump War The Holy Father and our Catholic Bishops are, as a group, more than a little dubious about the Trump/Netanyahu Iran War.  I couldn’t find a statement by

👉The Holy Father and our Catholic Bishops are, as a group, more than a little dubious about the Trump/Netanyahu Iran War.

I couldn’t find a statement by any bishop saying this war fit the description of a “just” war. In fact, their statements were unanimous in...

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Lazarus And The Unfinished Work Of Liberation Liberation requires more than individual transformation; it calls communities to participate actively in our unbinding.

👉The command Jesus gives at the tomb in our reading is also significant. Although Jesus calls Lazarus out of the grave, he then tells the surrounding community, 🪢“Unbind him, and let him go.” In our reading this week, Lazarus emerges alive, but still wrapped...👀

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Ryan Gosling On The Hope, Inspiration Of 'Project Hail Mary' In this Reel Faith exclusive, Ryan Gosling discusses 'Project Hail Mary’s undercurrent of faith— in something bigger, others, and ourselves—plus its message of hope over fear.

Just as his character, Dr. Ryland Grace, embarks on his own journey, Ryan Gosling’s story of getting the new Amazon MGM film “Project Hail Mary” to the screen was also quite the adventure. In early 2020, before the world shut down, the book’s author Andy Weir sent...✍️
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It's Ok If I Do NOT Wake Up One Day Do we retain our individuality after death—or simply dissolve into the cosmos? A reflective meditation on mortality, memory, and the meaning of eternal life.

🤔 Assume that we were lucky to choose to worship the right god among 3,000 gods. Also, we chose to follow the right scripture among 1,700 books📕 and the right religion among 10,000 religions. Still, many of these choices presuppose that we have souls.👀

#Cosmicsoup

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Oil, Money & Power. Trump's Iran War Is NOT A "Just War" Trump hops from one lunatic thing to another so fast it’s hard to remember what he did a few weeks ago.  But let’s get into the not-so-wayback machine and

Trump hops from one lunatic thing to another so fast it’s hard to remember what he did a few weeks ago.
But let’s get into the not-so-wayback machine and remember the last time Trump used our military to take over a foreign country.
A few months ago, Trump was...

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Today Is Saint Patrick's Day. Big Deal I never wear green on Saint Patrick's Day. Here's why a trip to Sweden with my son explains everything. Trust Me.

👉Some time ago, I had a brief locker room conversation with a campus security guard who frequently tortured himself at the gym around the same time that I did. He noted how much he was dreading Saint Patrick’s Day the next day.🍀 “I’ll be here dealing with drunk...👀

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Ezekiel 37 Counters White Christian Nationalism The sermon to the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37 preaches to the need for racial restoration and reparations today.

The 5th Sunday of Lent is ideal for countering the racism of white Christian Nationalism. The Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37 echoes across the millennia to our own time urging diligent work for racial justice and reparations. Sermon ideas included. @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...

Rend Your Heart: Reclaiming The Lost Art Of Repentance Stop settling for "cookie jar" apologies. Discover how the lost art of repentance and "rending the heart" leads to genuine hope this Lent.

True repentance isn't a PR move—it’s a wilderness habit.

Repentance is how we find our way back to the heart of God when life (or our own choices) strips everything bare.

A look at Joel in this recent blog post on repentance featured on @patheos.com

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Like A Fiddler On The Roof Becoming Brigham, Episode 7—"Young Brigham Young," Part Two is now up online: Camrey continues her conversation with Susan Easton Black about the

👉With a number of our friends and neighbors, my wife and I went out for pizza 🍕 last night and then on to a superb production of Fiddler on the Roof at The Ruth and Nathan Hale Theater in Pleasant Grove. It was as good a performance as I’ve ever seen at one...🎭

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History Of Required Celibacy Disproves Catholicism? I critique a clever argument claiming that the way in which the Catholic Church implemented compulsory celibacy for clergy proved that its authority is null and void.

Sean Luke, over at the YouTube channel, Anglican Aesthetics, made a rather ambitious and grandiose claim in his video, “This ONE Issue Debunks Roman Catholicism” (7-1-25). It’s a clever historical + ecclesiological argument, but I believe that it totally fails in...
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My Engagements With World Religions: Other Faiths All the faiths of the world show elements of the ray of truth; the more one explores other faiths, the more they can discern those elements.

👉While the focus of my religious engagements, inter-religious studies, and comparative theology has been with Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, I have not limited myself to them. I’ve investigated and read from a wide variety of religious faiths...
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The Women Who Built Israel The matriarchs took action to bring about divine order and fulfill the prophecies.  It was the women who built Israel.

👉 We often assume that the patriarchy ruled Israel. However, while the patriarchs received the promise, it was the matriarchs who saw the future and moved the story forward. 🇮🇱 They ensured the divine plan unfolded as it should. The matriarchs saw Israel’s future...

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The Stillness Ambition: Living The Lead A Quiet Life Verse Discover how the "lead a quiet life verse" in 1 Thess 4:11-12 offers a way of resistance through stillness, hard work, and independence.

To lead a quiet life is a form of resistance against a culture that defines us by what we have and how busy we are.

A Lead a Quiet Life Blog post on @patheos.com

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Secondhand Smoke: Tri Robinson Reflects On Deconstruction Tri Robinson’s Deconstruction/Reconstruction explores how the legacy of the Jesus Movement shaped today’s deconstructing generation.

Just finished Deconstruction/Reconstruction by Tri Robinson.

One idea stayed with me: today’s generation is living with the “secondhand smoke” of the church’s past decisions.

You can’t argue people into faith.

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God Understands Autism On my parenting journey, one of the best comforting mantras I have started to tell myself daily is this: God understands Autism.

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Hard Conversations: We Accept The Already & Not Yet Living between what God has begun and what is still unfolding, we learn to follow Jesus faithfully in the tension of the already and not yet.

We live in the tension of the here-and-now and yet-to-come.

In the middle of unfinished realities, we choose hope for what is possible today while trusting God to reveal the final truth.

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Effects Of Quitting Social Media On My Nervous System And Soul Social media was over-activating my nervous system without me realizing it. Here's what I learned about the effects of quitting social media.

👉 Almost a month ago, I decided for this year’s Lent to dive into Spanish practice and “consciousness hygiene,” and an update on the latter seems in order. 👍

For the sake of brevity, I’ll focus on just one area.👀 Early in the effort to spiff up my consciousness...

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Good News! God Made Me Funky! Headhunters And Jamiroquoi "And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). Reading pop music through a

Reading pop music through a theomusicological lens might seem a bit difficult. One might ask, “How can a song not meant to have a religious perspective be heard with a religious perspective?” Good question. Fortunately, pop culture offers works, from time to time...
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John 9 Counters Disability Bias In Christian Nationalism The story of Jesus and the man with blindness in John 9:1-41 can counter the disability discrimination of Christian Nationalism.

The story of the man born with blindness in John 9 counters the cruelty of Christian nationalism by affirming that those with disabilities are worthy of respect, healing, and justice. @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...

God Does Not Waste Daughters — So Why Do We? If God creates, calls, and spiritually gifts His daughters, then silencing them in the very places He has gifted them should call for careful consideration. Burying gifts is not biblical faithfulness;...

👉My husband and I have five young adult children. Our “only begotten son” is a husband, father, worship leader, and entrepreneur. He is overflowing with purpose, calling and spiritual gifts. We adore our son and are so proud of his leadership.

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Bart Ehrman Decodes The Book Of Revelation: What You Missed Bible scholar Bart Ehrman reveals what the Book of Revelation actually meant to its First Century audience—and why popular interpretations get it wrong.

👉Most Christians have some idea where they will be after the world ends.💥

Many Christians will say they believe that the Bible, including the book of Revelation, is the inerrant, inspired, and unquestionable word of God.

The truth is that most Christians have...

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