Tag: Love
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What are In-Divide-You-Alls?
What are In-Divide-You-Alls? I have never met an individual. I’ve met people who live as if they’re individuals. And I’ve tried and failed to be one in an effort to understand a concept that fundamentally makes no sense to me. But I’ve come to see that it didn’t work because I just can’t feel my…
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Is This the Face of Fear?
Someone responded to a poem I wrote by saying I was an ignorant religious person, divisive, and a bad writer. I’m not fishing for compliments. So, don’t worry about filling my bucket. Rather, I’m just wanting to look at this philosophically. What I’m thinking about is the question of how or if one should try…
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Diversity and Subcultures: Lessons from the Bronies
Recently, when speaking at a TEDx MileHigh Rethink Event, I shared a humbling experience I had with the Brony subculture back in 2013 that helped expand my awareness of cultural formation and how gathering or collectivizing around a certain set of values helps people transcend divides. Although “corporate culture” has made its way into the…
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The Case for Living Loveward (Full Sermon)
There’s something about the illusion of the better and easier and more predictable yesterday that often keeps us from going toward the unpredictable but more liberating future that awaits us just on the other side of doing something different. And it is toward this that I believe is the call of living Loveward.
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Living Loveward Ch. 5 – Love Never Fails
In reflecting on Abraham’s potential sacrifice of Isaac, Søren Kierkegaard said, “To love God without faith is to consider oneself. But, to love God with faith is to consider God.” As I walked and contemplated how I interpreted that statement in light of everything else he said, I felt inspired to talk about how—despite appearances…
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Living Loveward Ch. 4 – Love is Wild
Love is not safe or predictable. In truth, it is mysterious. And it is Wild. In this video, I try to communicate the awesomeness of this awareness. Don’t freak out. But True Love is ferocious in ways that we find it hard to comprehend. Welcome to the wildness of Love.
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Loving Loveward Ch. 3 – Love is a Mystery
Why do you love anyone? I bet you have a lot of “reasons” and most of us want to know the “reasons” people love us. And yet, most of us want “unconditional love “ which is essentially love for no reason. In this video, I invite listeners to consider the possibility that the Greatest access…
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Living Loveward Ch. 2 – Certainty Kills Relationships
Most of us imagine that if we just had certainty, all of our relationships would run more smoothly. Like most love myths, it’s probably not true. In this video, I challenge hearers to ask ourselves if we really want what we say we want from our relationships.
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Living Loveward
For most of us, love is not possible until we first feel safe. In this video, I explore why I think this is and challenge us to explore facing the fear that often prevents us from receiving the love we long for. Another post that connects to this awareness is The Sin of Overprotection. I…
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The Great Fullness of Be Longing
What does it mean to belong? In my opinion you can get a sense of its meaning if you looked at the featured image on this post or on the attached video. The image is of what appears to be graffiti art of these little dots of a variety of colors coming together to create…
