Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
If I may, I'd like to add some observations of my own to the discussion. The essence of Christianity is much different, alas, than what we see on the surface. And as others have pointed out, it's har… (View Post)
I can relate to this quite deeply. The "problem of suffering" has been the main source of an ongoing faith crisis for me for several years now. In my tradition, suffering is actually good f… (View Post)
(Quote) Well, yes. But in St. John's Gospel, we are told that Christ is the Eternal Word, or Logos, and is the "light that enlightens every man", and whose "life is the light of men.&q… (View Post)
If you want a living and deep tradition of Christian mysticism, I personally wouldn't bother with the Gnostics. Pick up a copy of the Philokalia and go visit an Eastern Orthodox church, and/or a mona… (View Post)
(Quote) Too easy? Hmmm, not Christianity as I understand it. "Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect." "Deny yourself." "Carry your cross." "Take the lowest… (View Post)