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Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 9 – God All In All
If the Christian vision of ultimate reality does not revolve around a concentration camp in the midst of paradise, what does it then involve? As I discussed earlier in the series, God is seen as everywhere present, filling and sustaining all things. Although that is both the present and future reality, that glory is now [...]
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Celiac and the Cost of Cheating
I thought I would pause in my series on the Didache to reflect on this video by Dr. Vikki Petersen that I think relates to what I tried to express yesterday. In it she is answering a question from a woman who suffered severe weight loss as a result of celiac. (From what I’ve read, [...]
Posted in Celiac, Faith Also tagged body, Celiac, Christian, Didache, disease, gluten, Gluten free, gluten free diet, God, Jesus, reality, spirit, union with god, way of death, way of life 2 Comments
The Didache 1 – The Two Ways
This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways. I’m not the sort to separate the crunchy physicality of the Christian story from its spirituality. Yet, as I’ve read this opening [...]
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Not the Fast I’ve Chosen – Part 9
I closed my train of thought in my last post with the idea that, though God has not given me celiac disease for any reason whatsoever, he has been quietly at work preparing me and giving me the tools, should I care to employ them, to stand and perhaps even grow in the face of [...]
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Not the Fast I’ve Chosen – Part 2
Before I continue in the direction I pointed at the end of my first post in this series, I want to spend a little more time on the intertwined, interlocking, and interpenetrating nature of our body, mind, and spirit. I know it is often a foreign idea to those shaped within our American culture, but [...]
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