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Tricia Gates Brown
Tricia Gates Brown is a candidate for ordination in the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, answering a call to chaplaincy, and is the author of the novel Wren. Her blog is part of the CCBlogs Network.
Our problem isn’t just loneliness—it’s species loneliness
How human isolation from the rest of the world keeps us from thriving.
Crossing Rio Grande
No time for modesty when they say
take off your clothes. And here
you dress in the dark, keep eyes
closed making love with your wife....
Letting story shape us
"Being a Christian involves living within the tradition and letting it shape our lives. It means letting these stories have their way with us." — Marcus Borg (emphasis added)...
Seeing God’s Spirit everywhere in the world
The Spirit didn’t come down at Pentecost. Eyes were opened to God’s presence.
Seeing beauty amid our brokenness
Our spiritual lives are like kintsugi pottery—mended with gold leaf along the cracks.
Sin is about not knowing who we are
Mystics understand what moralists do not: God pulls us like a magnet to our essence.
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