Marginal Christianity

October 6, 2015 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie Do you ever have those days? Days where Jesus is right beside you? And do you know those other days, those panic-stricken days it seems he’s up and left, you can’t remember if he’s ever been there, and you don’t know where to look, let alone whether you will find him? I began those reflections in a previous post . And maybe it’s just a season, but these days the latter are more prevalent than the former. And I just don’t know why. I could write for days and days about Jesus. I could write for days about the faith and the tradition of which I’m apart. I could write for aeons about the things I’ve been reading about him, how they’ve impacted me, how they’ve changed my worldview, my way of walking in this world. But these days I don’t feel as though I have a prayer of recovering the sense of Jesus’ imminent presence in my life. Read more at http://www.empireremixed.com/2015/10/06/return-to-the-table/

http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/word-made-fresh In All Things Michael Baxter  | Jan 5 2015 - 12:47pm | 0 comments Bachalpsee Lake in the Swiss Alps (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) For many years now, I’ve resolved to include in my Advent and Christmas reading Caryll Houselander’s The Reed of God , but the usual distractions have prevented me, until this year. It’s a simple, modest little book of meditations on Mary and the Incarnation and what it all means in our ordinary everyday lives. The mediation I read early this morning, on the unity of body and soul and the importance of the sensible environment, seems particularly pertinent in light of the imminent release of the pope’s encyclical. Houselander writes:   Human nature—body and soul. That means so much more than the word 'flesh' conveys at first hearing. It means flesh and blood, nerves, the five senses, the sensitive soul, thought, feeli...