Mountain Meditations on Faith, Doubt, and Divine Comedy
On the sacred art of honest doubt
I've long believed that Doubt is the truest expression of Faith. If you're certain, then faith has nothing to do with it...
Read Full Meditation →A meditation on Jung's mass inversion and divine comedy
The great psychologist Carl Jung wrote of a profound dream in which he witnessed a "mass inversion" - a cosmic reversal where the highest became lowest and the rejected became the chosen. In this vision, the outcasts and forgotten ones sailed not downward to damnation, but upward to salvation in vessels that defied all earthly logic...
Read Full Meditation →On symbols, consciousness, and the radical meaning of the crucifix
So, people may read stories from my past or musings from my present and conclude I am not a believer in Christ. That, of course, depends on who you think Christ is. I am a believer in the Christ who functions within the human psyche as the Potential–facultas– to save us from ourselves...
Read Full Meditation →On salvation, faith, and the meaning of John 3:16
So, the principal question that concerns most of us before converting to Christianity is, "How can I be saved from Hell?" Maybe we should be asking about the character of God. Maybe we should be asking what true worship looks like. Or maybe we should be asking about the mystery of the Holy Trinity. But most of us are concerned about our eternal destiny...
Read Full Meditation →What does faith in Christ entail?
Perhaps the famous question posed to Peter in the second chapter of Acts can help us sort that question out. After Peter told the crowd they were responsible for crucifying Jesus, they asked Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" And Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized..."
Read Full Meditation →The Possum Preacher is still preparing his sermons...