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The Mythology of Uniformity

As one reader noted, with full consciousness I subject the intellect to the Spirit. The mind was granted by God to serve the Spirit. Western Christianity typically presumes to intellectualize the Spirit, and that’s backwards, because it subjects the Spirit … Continue reading

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Our Catholic Friends

We don’t have to be enemies; we can turn a benign eye on any institution. The Roman Catholic Church is highly varied internally for the simple reason that it covers the whole world. The central identity is the institution and … Continue reading

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More Virtual War

Our enemy is neither human nor human institutions. I’ve noted in the past the grand overlap between Christian Mysticism and the practice of faith online. Ambition will destroy your work. Our objective is to fight our own fallen nature. Not … Continue reading

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Network of Souls

If my religion is called “Kiln of the Soul,” then any covenant community of faith arising from that religion should be called the “Network of Souls.” I’ve offered discussion of DIY Religion in general and DIY Christianity. Both are tightly … Continue reading

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Pain Is Gain

It wasn’t working right. My “new” laptop was behaving inconsistently with Xubuntu, so I had to test other options. Every time there was update, it broke something. Win7 certainly didn’t work; the manufacturer’s drivers kept breaking the file system and … Continue reading

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Irrelevant Church

This is going to sound arrogant; I can’t help that. I am very leery of people who chatter so much about leaving the churches. Most of them are trying to escape something prodding their inflamed conscience. They mutter on and … Continue reading

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Quantum Truth; Behavioral Deception

One of our biggest mistakes as humans is classifying people. We have a jillion labels we use and it makes us feel so very intelligent when we can describe where someone fits in the catalog. The overuse of Meyers-Briggs matrix … Continue reading

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Static Site Changed

My old static website, Kiln of the Soul (closed as of 2020), is now in its new form. All the archives are now backed up on my system and on a couple of external storage devices. They are still available, … Continue reading

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Woolgathering

Reviewing things I’ve seen in the past few weeks provokes a few thoughts about faith. The biggest barrier remains the vast pool of cultural thought patterns, by which false images become associated with Scripture. People understand the words well enough, … Continue reading

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Warm Deception

More than once I’ve awakened to a pounding heart and the stinking sweat of terror. Not merely from some bad dream, not simply a too vivid movie scene in my memory, but the very real threat of death crawled through … Continue reading

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