Afrika Burns

This is my post on the event Afrika Burns for the synchroblog. Afrika Burns is a South African satellite event to Burning Man in the United States. As Wikipedia has a great article on Burning Man I suggest anyone wanting more information to visit their article here or read the section on the Burning Man website here. This was a rich event. You can view a short video here. Rather than provide a description of it I thought I’d touch on my experience of the event along and then go on to provide some thoughts on how it at once critiques Christianity and calls for us to make a contribution.

reflections on embracing the feminine in God: does God have a penis?

 

I was recently asked to comment on my reference to God/-ess when writing and my fragmented attempts to speak of the divine in the feminine.

The beginning of 2007 I decided to speak of the “God” using feminine references – “She” and “Goddess” – rather than the masculine as is usual – “He” and “God”. I did so for the most part to see what came up for myself and secondarily to see what would come up as I did so.

This post includes some of reflections on embracing the feminine in God and includes some of my reasoning personal experiences having done so.

Christians and Yoga

Doug Pagitt and John MacArthur did a bit of head-to-head on CNN on Yoga and Christians. In this blog I aim to explore the foundation below this tension and hopefully shed some light for those being swayed in either direction.