Downright Awestruck [SSL 301]

Today we are probing our sense of mystery and wonder.
Have you encountered AWE lately?
The people, book, and article mentioned, and more info and photos can be found at PART II: https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/142762862


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Feature photo is from NASA. The first is MSH 11-52, a supernova remnant blowing a spectacular cloud of energized particles resembling the shape of a human hand, seen in data from Chandra, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), and ground-based optical data.

Dancing at the Midnight Hour [SSL 300]

Today, is about dancing in the darkness. Thriving in the middle of chaos. A review by Jordan T. Jones about a book by Rev Dr Otis Moss III. Don’t miss the links and photos at PART 2: the companion page 


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Alternate Ascension Day [SSL 298]

Today, I’ll bring a little something from my own experience and a theologian of the last century, Sergius N. Bulgakov regarding the coming of the Kingdom. 

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How to Eat Angel’s Bread [SSL 297]

Today, we read from Fr. Gabriel Bunge book on what Evagrius Ponticus (345-399 CE) meant by Angel’s Bread (the virtue) to combat the vice Dragon’s Wine. See companion page (PART 2) for the book link, additional audio, and a personal reflection.

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Where is God in the Genocide? [SSL 296]

The Doors to the Sea was written by David Bentley Hart after the horrific Indonesian tsunami in 2004. Today I’ll be interacting with a portion of it that explains ideas of Providence, Evil, and God’s will, better than anything I’ve come across.

Please, find the companion page (PART 2) for the article link, the book link, more on the author, and my personal reflections.


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