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Weight of Words
Weight of Words 150 150 Nicole

A Picture Worth … It is likely irrefutable, if given adequate time to reflect, that the childhood chant, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” is categorically false. Words do hurt, and they can be used to wield a great deal of power. How we use our words matters.…

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Borderless Love
Borderless Love 150 150 Nicole

Writing about the implications of the event of the crucified Christ is kicking my butt. Everything about who we are as human beings after the fall screams control. We rail against anything that seeks to dominate us. I should say: I bristle under the push and crush of another. It is true, pride is certainly…

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Body Politic of Compassion
Body Politic of Compassion 150 150 Nicole

[Theology is] considered as a reflection of . . . faith and of the moral force of the Word, for the work of liberation from injustice and from sin, in its structural as well as personal dimension. Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments…

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Gift Exchange
Gift Exchange 150 150 Nicole

von Veh Crucifixion-III The wound inflicted on world history by the coming of Christ continues to fester.                              ~Hans Urs von Balthasar The Word spoke. The Word speaks. The Word became flesh at a fixed point in time and space, yet, the…

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The Wound of Mission
The Wound of Mission 150 150 Nicole

heroin galleryMy Lenten discipline this year to meditate with Julian of Norwich on my crucified Lord has been a profound experience for me. It is deepening my sense of the breadth of God’s love, and with it, God’s persistent—stubborn, insistent—patience. It is reworking my notion of what I am as part of Christ’s body. Frederick Bauerschmidt’s…

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Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly 150 150 Nicole

Alice through the looking glass The Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar sees Julian’s revelations of the crucifixion as a theo-drama to help us understand (or approach understanding) the action of the Trinity at the cross; this element of infinite divine freedom that created finite freedom and where they meet, interact. Considering the paradox of…

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The Word Has a Name
The Word Has a Name 150 150 Nicole

Every expectant parent is faced with countless preparations and decisions before a child is welcomed into the home. Some are tedious, most elicit myriad opinions, but one will most certainly affect the child for the rest of his or her life: choosing a name. It is often drawn from a parent’s lineage, sometimes chosen for…

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Mynde of His Blessyd Passion
Mynde of His Blessyd Passion 150 150 Nicole

  Sculpture at Platz der Synagoge as seen from the inside looking straight up. Göttingen, Germany. It is fitting that I have been compelled to study the visions of Julian of Norwich at this time. A major paper is due this Friday on her life and work. What I did not consider when I chose…

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Joy and Affliction
Joy and Affliction 150 150 Nicole

In this third week of Advent we are reminded of the joy that comes with understanding the significance of Jesus’ birth. It is with a fair bit of disorientation, however, that I approach this meditation as the week has issued circumstances that are far from joyful: An Aunt who is close to death; a beautiful,…

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Peace and the Amplituhedron
Peace and the Amplituhedron 150 150 Nicole

After our first Sunday of Advent conversation, Lysander and I continued to wonder at the implications of God’s creative intention in the beginning: What if we have always had the ability to do magic, but God hid the knowledge of it from us because God knew we would not use it with an understanding of…

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