Zen Baptist

We are Awareness awarenessing. We generally identify only with the small "a" awareness. We are like a pen writing upon a page. Th...

There are those who worship God "out there" and those who reject God "out there." The worship and the rejection are two...

When one does not cut God off by putting Him as "out there," the Christian concept and experience of grace is highly similar if n...

This world is friction. Walk is friction. Talk is friction. Thinking is friction. Relationship is friction. Even love needs a lubricant. Th...

Our physical body has a skeleton, a framework for supporting it. So does our spiritual body. The spiritual body's frame is called a rel...

Cosmotheophilosphy 101. Some believe there is a Divinity. Some believe there is not. My question is: Who is this believing? Who is this bel...

Jesus gave me love. Buddha opened my mind.

To my Christian friends who may not know: Buddhism is not a religion and Buddha is not seen as a god. He was walking along after his awaren...

Amongst all the cosmic realms, the realms of conscious awareness, we live in the Realm of Desire. Three forces keep us here. One is wanting...

Orthodox christianity is based upon sin being obliterated through sacrifice. Relational christianity is based upon ignorance being oblitera...

No answers exist "out there" that are not also "in here." The outer infinity and the inner infinity are the same infini...

A theology is a developed system of religious belief and theory. What many folk who say they rely upon the New Testament writings about Jes...

On Conversion. A simple way to experience conversion (change of consciousness state) is, if you are sitting down stand up, or if you are st...

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" (Psalm 8:4) Or as the genderly correct...

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. (Psalm 19: 2) During the night, we dissolve our bounds. We open to ...

"Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and...

Most of you won't be at all interested in this, so go on about your business. If Eastern-Western dialogue is to succeed, Buddhism and C...

Since I am in what is sometimes called the advancing years and sometimes the declining (no wonder we Geezers get confused), I am looking t...

"Today we have a visiting minister. A Sufi joins our Zen Baptist journey. I would like the congregation to welcome Nasruddin , who has...

The Bible is the story, the mythos, the journeying of my own soul. It tells of internal dynamics. All its voices are the voices within me, ...

"Lift up your heads, O ye gates!" (Psalm 24:7) Stop just plowing along on the horizontal. Open to the vertical. Lift up your s...

"For God has consigned all men to disobedience so that He may show mercy to all." (Romans 11:32) I know this verse is conventio...

This imagery, a painting (Christ Our Pilot) by Warner Sallman, had powerful effect on me as a boy and young man. I looked at it from time...

(Excerpt from " The World's First Ever Baptist Crime Novel ") In his deep inner being, Gregor knew that he had doomed h...

We exist on the cross of time and space, nailed to the spot. And yet we are eternally resurrecting, forever transforming. The I we are toda...

After the Minister of Music had done his job of assisting the individual consciousnesses of the folk showing up for Sunday morning service ...

From where do we come? Some are not bothered by such a question. Nor ever want to be. Living in the here-now and/or in the buzzing arena ...

Saying for those with calcified spiritual kidneys: Let those who are a paragon of virtue cast the first stone.

How does the Pope's resignation affect the Baptists? Hunh? What pope?

Read Psalm 2 this morning. Interesting difference between the Tanakh (Hebrew-English) and the King James (Christian) versions of verse 7. Ta...

"And David danced  before the Lord with all his might"  ( 2 Samuel 6:14) Each of us sets up our own little structure of what is...

First Gear: Hinayana Christianity (Small Path). I live in a split world, a subject-object world. Here is "me" and there is ...

...the ongoing battle since my childhood...the unwillingness to knuckle down (knuckles dragging on the ground) to the dogma of the social n...

We Christians have made an icon of Jesus. But an icon is to be seen THROUGH, not gazed AT. An icon is a window, opening to the boundless su...

In the 2012 elections, the blue counties seemed more likely to contain cities or university towns. The red counties tended to be more rural...

I did not make myself. The Great God did. I am not making myself. The Great God is. If I try to make myself, a self-made man, I become a ...

Each of the world's religions is a bead on a bracelet rosary worn around God's wrist.

There is only one Creative Impulse (rather, an impulsing, moving as It does in rhythmic pulse) producing abundant Life on earth, our solar ...

"It is he who has made us and not we ourselves" (Psalm 100:3) Whether you decide to call "he" she, thou, it, father, mot...

"I am made all things to all men" (I Corinthians 9:22) does not mean that one is a gutless chameleon, shifting with whatever aris...

What we do not seem to get is that we are the Unborn borning. An interflow. A mutual co-arising. We differentiate ourselves, proclaim our s...

A difference in understanding of "the rapture" and of "the afterlife" I seem to have with some of my good Christian fri...

I do not know why people have so much trouble with the idea of Jesus being married. Is he not often spoken of as the bridegroom and we are ...

We are nozzles on the hose of flow of Spirit into this world, the flow of the Life Force. We adjust the nozzle to various settings with whi...

If you are thinking about clinging to Jesus to effect your own sorry salvation, clinging like a barnacle to a boat that will take you to the...

To be a Christ-ian does not mean to be a follower of Christ. It means to BE a Christ. All bread you eat is your own flesh. All wine you dri...

Everything you hold on to is an idol -- a juju doll created by the necessities of your fear. No clinging! And especially no clinging to not ...

All consciousness structures requiring belief in a past or future are hereby revoked. Only now exists. Political and religious consciousnes...

I cannot and will not wear those too-tight Jesus shoes that orthodox Christianity seeks to force upon me -- especially the evangelical our-...

In the well-written and informative announcement by Anamchara Books of their publication of my forthcoming book, Zen Baptist , it is said t...

A religion is a world view which has swallowed the heads of its members. A political party is a world view which has swallowed the heads of...

The only way Christianity as a religion can redeem itself from the swamp into which it has fallen is for Christians to turn away from the d...