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Day1 Key Voice blogger and author of the new book, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, Carl McColman sits down with Day1 host Peter Wallace to discuss the ideas and history of Christian mysticism, contemplative prayer and what connections there are to the Emerging Church movement.
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Fish and Eggs, Snakes and Scorpions

Luke 11:1013

Proper 12 (17) - Year C

July 25, 2010

The Rev. Dr. Graham Walker, Jr. (CBF)

"As he finished praying, one of his disciples said, 'Lord teach us to pray as John taught his disciples to pray.'" The disciple approaches Jesus as a matter of observation and comparison.

This one disciple articulates what we all know privately within ourselves; we are an ambiguous construction of earth and spirit.  We are as grounded as the adamah (the red clay) out of which we are drawn and we are as free as the nephesh (the wind) that fills our lungs.  We are grounded spirits, the middle point of creation as Plato describes us.  One testimony to this inner ambiguity is our felt anxiety over how we should then live.  There seems to be no inner gyroscope to provide balance and orientation in our human life. 

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