Being in raised in an extremely Liberal Protestant Church I was taught that spiritual practice consists of maybe sometimes reading the Bible or whatever, praying before bed, and serving our fellow human through agitating for social justice. That social justice...
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Don't worry! I've still got lots to say about our two most recent shows with Dr. Glen Fairen about the Dead Sea Scrolls and Marcion, but lets take a little diversion to talk about a topic on my mind a lot: Gnosticism is the religion of NOW!
Any adherent of ...
view Our most recent Talk Gnosis show is all about Marcion of Sinope, a man mostly remembered, if remembered at all, as an arch-heretic... BUT he's easily one of the most important leaders and philosophers in all of Christian history! I could spend blog post after ...
view The Rosicrucians! The most famous “secret” order of them all, Rosicrucianism inspired a thousand other esoteric movements, the greatest minds of 17th century Europe, and the hearts and souls of hundreds of thousands of contemporary spiritual seekers. We penetr...
view Because the scientific world view has gotten us as a race pretty far (I'm fond of space travel, the Internet, and vaccines) at some point we decided to apply it to everything. But maybe, that's not always aa great idea. Fundamentalists are derided as superstit...
view Previously on Blog Gnosis: Some of our earliest Christian texts seemingly end with no resurrection scene. This seems pretty shocking and depressing to us now. And what does it mean? Is it some kind of hint that the resurrection didn't happen, or at least, not ...
view Every month on Talk Gnosis we'll be exploring a single topic so I'm going to do my best to keep these blog posts in the general drift of the subject at hand. Our August show is The Body with AJC Bishop Mar Timotheos, where we cover an incredibly fascinating an...
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