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Brennan Manning and Christian Mystics

I’ve been sick most of this week with some weird springtime cold. My allergies are acting up pretty bad too. Alas, I intended to work on another N.T. Wright post this week but didn’t have the energy or time.

In the last couple of weeks I have been on a bit of a Brennan Manning kick so I thought I would include this very brief, but very interesting comment of his. This clip comes from his participation in the Soularize conference last fall.

Do you think he is right? If so, what would a modern Christian mystic look like?

What do you like about what he said? What bothered you?

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What I Said Some Time Ago

“I shall not find Christ at the end of my journey unless he accompanies me along the way.” - Esther De Waal, Celtic Way of Prayer
“Our chance to be healed comes when the waters of our life are disturbed.” – Elizabeth O’Conner, Call to Commitment
"It is not allowable to love the Creation according to the purposes one has for it, any more than it is allowable to love one’s neighbor in order to borrow his tools." - Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
"It has always been more difficult to come to terms with Jesus as the way than with Jesus as the truth. It is more difficult to realize the ways our thinking and behavior get fused into a life of relational love and adoration with neighbor and God, God and neighbor." - Eugene Peterson, "Christian Century", Nov 29, 2003
"Past is past. Past is not present. Did is not do. Was is not is." - John Wesley Weasel in Book of the Dun Cowby Walter Wangerin.

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