Monthly Archives: October 2019

Here and Now: Inclusion

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Steve Harper

​When we live in the present moment with the fullness of our true personhood in play, we experience inclusion and offer it to others.  We are included in everything, and everything is included in us.  As Richard Rohr has put … Continue reading →

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Holy Love: Church

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Steve Harper

Expanding on the hermeneutic of love in the Church beyond what I write in the book means enlarging the idea of the Church as the Body of Christ.  I write some about it this in the book, but today I … Continue reading →

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Here and Now: True Personhood

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Steve Harper

​Living here-and-now makes all of life formative, and it evokes the emergence of our true personhood.  By not being tethered by the past (e.g.”What I should have been or might have been”) and by not being pulled into the future … Continue reading →

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Holy Love: Christ

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Steve Harper

​The fourth vantage point for seeing the hermeneutic of holy love is Christ, the one who reveals the creator (“whoever has seen me has seen the Father,” John 14:9), the one who made the creation (“ everything came into being … Continue reading →

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Here and Now: Suffering

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Steve Harper

​There are other positive things we could note about living here and now.  But it would be a mistake to think that the blessings of present-moment living are limited to them.  We must include suffering as a portal for our … Continue reading →

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Holy Love: Covenant

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Steve Harper

The third vantage point for seeing the hermeneutic of holy love is the Covenant.  When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we say “thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”  This is the creator/creation … Continue reading →

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Here and Now: Gratitude

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Steve Harper

​David Steindl-Rast introduced me to gratitude as a sign that we are living in the present moment. He wrote, “Our eyes are opened to the surprise character of the world around us the moment we wake up from taking things … Continue reading →

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Holy Love: Creation

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Steve Harper

Creation is the second vantage point for seeing the hermeneutic of holy love. We live in a God-made world (Genesis 1:1).  It is reasonable to assume that there would be congruence between who God is and what God has made.  … Continue reading →

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In-Sight: Surprised into Transformatiom

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Steve Harper

​A writing project I am engaged in has taken me back into the books of E. Stanley Jones.  I have spent large amounts of time re-reading them. I have been reminded why he is the overall major influence in my faith … Continue reading →

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Here and Now: Freedom

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Steve Harper

​In last week’s post, I wrote about the importance of simplicity in present-moment living.  Such simplicity is the means for another quality of here-and-now living: freedom. It is the freedom that arises when we are available to life here and … Continue reading →

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