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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Knowledge of the heart: Pagels excerpt #6

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Pagels writes in Why Religion? “The Gospel of Truth , then, is all about relationships—how, when we come to know ourselv...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The mystery of Christ in you: Pagels excerpt #5

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Pagels writes in Why Religion? “When the author of the Gospel of Truth sets out to reveal Paul’s secret teaching, he begins by asking, Wha...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Primordial, life-giving energy: Pagels excerpt #4

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Pagels writes in Why Religion? “Whoever wrote the poem called Thunder, Complete Mind apparently drew on that opening li...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Secret teachings: Pagels excerpt #3

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Pagels notes that Bishop Irenaeus, engaged in missionary work in Gaul in 160-180, “insists   that Jesus and Paul never o...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Children of God: Pagels excerpt #2

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Pagels writes in Why Religion? unlike the Gospel of Mark , which pictures Jesus announcing that ‘the kingdom of God is coming soon,’ as a c...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Sensing a presence after death: Pagels excerpt #1

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Elaine Pagels, History of Religion professor at Princeton since 1982, is best known for her research and books about what are generally iden...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Living light/love stories matters: Cook excerpt #26

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Nick Cook writes: To conclude, I need to return to where we began: to ‘A Matter Of Life and Death’ . In my consulting w...