Category: Theology for the Rest of Us
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The Arc of Humanity’s Faith: The Heroine’s Journey
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Perhaps this is the invitation for our time: not to fight for which path is right, but to walk together into the larger story.
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Adam and Eve as the Story of Becoming Human
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Joseph Campbell said that myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. Myths are not lies. They are not about proving whether something happened. A myth can rise from history or from fiction; either way, its work is to tell the truth about being human. It gives…
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The Heroine’s Journey: The Art of Watering the Soul
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Most people know the Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell’s famous “monomyth.” The hero is called to adventure, leaves home, finds a mentor, faces trials, defeats a monster or shadow, seizes the prize, and returns with a gift for his people. It’s a story of linear conquest. A straight line moving outward…