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Progressive Christian Reflections by Chris Glaser: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. My "Dark Night of the Soul". Reading Walter Brueggemann’s contrasting of Psalms 73 and 139 in an essay entitled, “The Cunning Little Secret of Certitude,” in his book The Covenanted Self. See a previous post. I remembered how Psalm 73 saved me from my own “dark night of the soul” that followed the ending of what I thought would be a lifelong relationship within weeks of my mother’s death in 1999. That year I scrutinized myself, and not just in relation to the death of the r...
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Progressive Christian Reflections by Chris Glaser: May 2014
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014. A minister for whom I was to read the scripture for his sermon delayed giving me the reference until, minutes before worship, I asked again. “Oh, I’m glad you reminded me,” he said, “Let me find it.” And he began thumbing through his Bible for the reading with which he seemed to have spent little time. Another minister once told me he had tried “that meditation and prayer stuff,” but rather proudly announced he had never really “got it.”. A college religious studies professor rem...
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Progressive Christian Reflections by Chris Glaser: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. There Is Simply Too Much to Think About". The world is too much with us; late and soon,. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 8211;William Wordsworth, 1802. The world is too much with us, and there has never been so much world. 8211;Saul Bellow, 1959. 8211;Saul Bellow, 1975. And think of us now, forty years later, awash in the internet, 24/7 news cycles, and countless means of communication! My readers bear witness to those themes in everything from the media to politic...
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Progressive Christian Reflections by Chris Glaser: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. The Scariest Book I've Read. I will be speaking on “Generosity in Three Movements” during the 11 am worship of Georgia Mountains Unitarian Universalist Church. This Sunday, Nov. 2, and leading a free workshop on. The Cloud of Unknowing immediately following the service. (Pizza will be served, and remember that Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 am that morning, so we “fall back” an hour.). And Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Feel likes romps through a garden. I have always taken he...
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Progressive Christian Reflections by Chris Glaser: Cuddling with Jesus
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013. I can imagine red flags going up for my more progressive readers, fearing I’ve gone evangelical on them with a title like “Cuddling with Jesus.” And my more mainstream readers may fear I’m getting too familiar, even sexual, with our spiritual leader. In my book, As My Own Soul: The Blessing of Same-Gender Marriage. In his book, The Man Jesus Loved. Theodore Jennings translates the passage this way:. This is the casual intimacy between John and Jesus, but it affords John the opp...
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RIDE ON! | Insights Outside The Walls
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Insights Outside The Walls. As I Understand God – Spiritual Meditations of a Gay Man Outside The Religious Norm. June 7, 2013. This week I visited Cedar Point, my favorite amusement park. It was great! If you like roller coasters Cedar Point is certainly one park you have to experience. After every ride on a roller coaster one of the workers says: Ride on! I wanted to ride on! This is the way I want to ride on with life. Who knows? And posted in Uncategorized. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! Uarr; Grab thi...
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Insights Outside The Walls. As I Understand God – Spiritual Meditations of a Gay Man Outside The Religious Norm. June 7, 2013. This week I visited Cedar Point, my favorite amusement park. It was great! If you like roller coasters Cedar Point is certainly one park you have to experience. After every ride on a roller coaster one of the workers says: Ride on! I wanted to ride on! This is the way I want to ride on with life. Who knows? June 3, 2013. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! I know it takes lots of pract...
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PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! | Insights Outside The Walls
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Insights Outside The Walls. As I Understand God – Spiritual Meditations of a Gay Man Outside The Religious Norm. June 3, 2013. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! I am reminded again that relationships with God and others take practice. We may initially resent our parents or others who lovingly prod and push us to be the best that we can be. In retrospect we may find that they have given us a great gift! But sometimes I get so tired of practicing taking the time to meditate and pray whether alone or with other...
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Once, We Were Heroes
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Mark S. King. A Place Like This". November 28th, 2010. Once, When We Were Heroes. My brother Richard smiles a lot. He has an easy laugh. But there was a time, years ago, when he held a poisonous drink in his hands and begged his dying lover not to swallow it. A time when Richard held the concoction they had prepared together and wept. Richard has a charming store in my hometown today, where he sells collectibles and does theater in his free time. The drink was consumed over twenty years ago. There is a s...
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