• "The Matter Of Who We Are Always Precedes What We Do"

    “Thus, sin is not essentially an action but rather an identity. Sin is a fundamental stance of wanting to be what we are not. Sin is thus an orientation to falsity, a basic lie concerning our own deepest reality.”

    James Finley

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Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman

Connecting the Dots

Even questions about who we are, what is our true self about? And why didn’t relationships work? Why were our parents so angry and controlling or sad and distant from their children? Many of us have been asking these questions since we can remember and haven’t gotten any answers.

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Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman

The Final Act on Ontology

God’s ontology? The call to holiness is meeting up our ontology with God’s ontology. I came across this idea recently and remembered it like it was yesterday.

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Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman

One Life at a Time

We generally speak on the phone once a week. We have been talking once a week for over twenty years. We usually met in a coffee shop on a Wednesday in Boise, Idaho. Same one, for twenty years. Then I moved, and he got divorced, and I was divorced and moved to Colorado, where I have settled in for the time being.

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Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman

Weekend With a Friend

Reflection on a weekend spent with an old friend that I hadn't seen for several years and the exercise in "creative dialogue" we were able to engage in with each other with reflections on a narrative created by Thomas Merton, one of the great mystics of our time.

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Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman

Knight of Faith

"The Knight of Faith is the only happy man, the heir to the finite while the knight of resignation is a stranger and an alien." Kierkegaard

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Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman

The Invasion

A spiritual invasion of the planet had its genesis in an earlier time. Take a look at the flood narrative/story/history. Archeology suggests the flood occurred about 5,000 BC. Read the account. It describes a time when humanity had lost its way. Humans at the time created a society (or it was created for them) that exhibited no moral compass.

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Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman

The Revelation

What began as the Sam Harris interview triggered a revelation that many of us have been aware of the truth but still had many doubts. That changed for me hearing this interview. It spoke to the fact that I have been on the right path to the truth most of my life. And the people doubting and criticizing me all my life we just wrong. It's how the lost operate.

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Ask, Seek, Knock

Choices that took a while to make were so difficult. One hopes choices that will alter your future for the best.

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