Grace
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The Axis Mundi: Why Christians are Revolutionaries
The term, axis mundi, isn’t used much in common parlance. Just so we are on the same page, I include the Wikipedia definition which is accurate enough for my purposes: The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, the center of the world, world tree), in certain beliefs and philosophies, is the world center, or the connection between Heaven and Earth. Nearly every major religion has such an intersection. The Old Testament has Mount Zion where Moses saw God. Jacob’s ladder is also such an intersection. Mount Kailash is sacred to the Hindu, the Innuit create totem poles, and even Feng Shui attempts to orient the home towards the sky in a practice called geomancy. Christianity…
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At the Foot of the Strong Tower; a Revelation of Light
My youngest calls me by my first name. Many mothers would find this disrespectful, but it is needs must with us. You see, I don’t always answer to Mom. I’m a writer, and so I spend a lot of my time in the whirl of ideas in my head. For some reason, the word, Mom, doesn’t always pierce my consciousness. But float out the name, Alice, and my attention is yours. I have been a parent of six for thirty years, so I have no excuse or reason why this would be so. Fortunately God is not as scatterbrained as I am, and He has names for us to call…