Closing The Circle

Last year somehow Ti Kuan Yin Tea from Prince of Peace became my favorite tea, and then, in the fall, a Chinese student showed up for my Sun...

This was a very nice interviewing experience, it flowed naturally like a dialog, and hopefully this gives people another way of looking at t...

I've blogged here before about the Jefferson Bible, and of course I dealt with it extensively in my book, Closing the Circle. My earlier...

The Devil made me do it. God made me do it. I was guided to do it. In hoc signo vinces. (In this sign you will conquer) Ich hab' e...

In high school, the Gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam (and yes, it was founded in 1328), I had the joy of taking optional classes of Hebr...

What danger can assail the wholly innocent? What can attack the guiltless? What fear can enter and disturb the peace of sinlessness? What ...

I talked about role play in my last post, but there are many ways that we can engage in this, and you don't always have to act it out. ...

My friend Annelies reminded me that it was time for some serious fun and sent me this youtube link from the end of Monty Python's Li...

I would like to weave together some thoughts on the process that turned Jesus into a Christian, posthumously. I think it is always a good, ...

Gary Renard's work is at the center of Closing the Circle , because it is in his work that the connection is laid between the traditio...

That sort of a comment has been quite common in the discussions around the Thomas gospel. By now we know enough to understand what happened...

Are the names truly all the same? Yes and no. Gary Renard's teachers tell him in The Disappearance of the Universe , to use the name...

Surely those words are a very lovely way to refer to the Voice of Reason within. Abraham Lincoln said that, in fact he appealed to this noti...

If it wasn't going to be Closing the Circle , perhaps the title of the book should have been Joining the Y , but while on the one hand t...

Visitors to the Yahoo! group on The Disappearance of the Universe will recognize the name of Martha Lucía Espinosa immediately, and know ...

Closing the Circle is (going to be) a book about the continuity of the teachings of Jesus, which in turn belies the discontinuity of our w...