A Little Reminder

Going through some tough times these days. With a small bit of breathing room, I took a journey to one of my favorite haunts – Half Price Books.
I was looking through their spiritual books, and had picked out a paperback to look at. As I turned, I caught sight of a book that had been [...]

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Those Pesky Mystics

If you want to see fireworks, don’t wait till July 4th, just drop the word “mystic” in with fundamentalists or those who, usually out of fear, have earnestly cast God in their own, rather limited, point of view.
Case in point. I noticed someone visited this site from a link I’d never seen before, and when [...]

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The World Said No

Want to understand a bit more about why Jesus of Nazareth was in his life and remains today so powerful for people?
That insight, I believe, doesn’t lie in the repetition of various creeds and dogmas, and especially not in the emphasis on Jesus’ death to the exclusion of his life and teachings, a mistake that [...]

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What Is It About Jesus?

Put in the name Jesus for a Google Search and you come up with 40,600,000 pages. How do others stack up?
Internet 1,170,000,000Islam 38,200,000Weight Loss 31,500,000Cell Phone 29,300,000Poker 27,6000,000The Poor 16,800,000George W. Bush 16,100,000Paris Hilton 11,600,000Shakespeare 11,000,000Christianity 8,760,000Beatles 7,830,000Buddha 3,410,000Buddhism 3,170,000Allah 2,090,000Chocolate Chip Cookies 1,210,000Christian Mystic 69,700
So, what does all this mean?
Haven’t a clue! Feel free [...]

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What’s The One Book……

Jorge Luis Borges once said, “To rearrange a library is to quietly practice literary criticism.” I have a few shelves of books around the house, and as I pass by I sometimes wonder which one would be the one I’d keep. Fortunately, I’ve never had to make that decision, but I did come up with [...]

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Oops, I Did It Again

As St. Paul says, “That which I would not do, I do; and that which I would do, I do not.”
Ain’t it the truth?
Paul represents one particular stream of Christian thought, although historically we know there were many, many interpretations and understandings of Jesus in the very first years after his death. Quite simply, Paul’s [...]

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Will The Real Brian Robertson….

All of us have difficult days, we all have our share of problems and stress. Myself, in particular. I wonder then, and quite often, if people who find their way to this website (and I’m grateful to each of you) may get the wrong idea about the person behind the site — myself.
There was an [...]

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Devils and Angels

‘The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you, he said. They’re freeing your soul. So, if you’re frightened of dying and… and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life [...]

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The Poetry of God

I paid another of my very, very regular visits to PoetSeers, a site that offers an astonishing collection of the poetry of Christian mystics, as well other remarkable samples from a variety of traditions.
One poem, which I talk about on the site, really grabbed hold of me. It is what I would call a “re-imagining” [...]

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