How so I respond when someone says, “Science and Religion Conflict.”
Acts 17:24-29
Today’s the first Sunday of Lent. We begin a journey, a long journey towards that moment in our lives when we move through death and into new life. We begin to examine our faith. Historically, that’s one of the things that the Church did [...]

Marc Gafni – Lonely to Beloved (Audio approx 8 MB – right click to download)

Receiving the Divine Through the Third Person of the Trinity [1]
My first identifiable experience of God came one clear night on a mountain, while laying on my back, staring into the cosmos. “How big is it,” I asked and kept asking? And it kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger until I shuddered in fear, [...]

Love is Strong as Death
Song of Songs 8:6-7
I’ve been preaching over the last few weeks from the Song of Songs; I’ve been letting the Song interact with what I’ll call major Christian doctrines.  So a couple of weeks ago we talked about the Trinity, as if the sexual could be a window on the divine [...]

Who is God? A Reflection from the Mainline Protestant Tradition
Our creeds agree; if it’s not Trinitarian, it’s not Christian, which is odd when you consider that we Christians pretty much ignore the Trinity. Why? Frankly, the doctrine doesn’t make sense, which is probably good because you can’t make arrogant theological claims if you don’t [...]

The Trinity and the 3 Faces of Spirit(1)
The Doctrine of the Trinity is the essential Christian doctrine; it intends to describe both the nature of God and God’s connection with all creation. Strangely, outside the Christian academy, it is virtually ignored. I’m looking to engage the doctrine within an “integral frame” hoping we can once [...]

A Basis for Inter-Religious Theological Discourse in an Integral Frame
January 25, 2010
We live in dangerous times – one of those rare moments in history when humanity will need to evolve or die. Given that, I am convinced that a pathetically weak amalgamation of religions, based on the lowest common denominator – some sort of vague [...]

Eros and Thanatos; Agape and Phobos
Song of Songs 7:16-8:1
I have been preaching on the Song of Songs these last few weeks, and I’ll preach on it today and next week. Then on February 14th, Valentines Day, Rabbi Marc Gafni, who’s been sort a conversation partner of mine as I’ve been walking through this, will be [...]