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Daily Teaching for Sunday, August 5th

I recently changed the name of Christ Enlight, my ministry that seeks to teach the truth that Jesus was primarily a Jewish wisdom and enlightenment teacher who never taught salvation as we have come to understand it, to Compassionate Heart. … Continue reading

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The Empty Tomb: Exercises in missing the point.

Was your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandmother born? How do you know? You can’t produce her birth certificate, because in those days they didn’t exist. You can’t produce anyone who witnessed her birth. You probably don’t … Continue reading

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New Blog Talk Radio Episode

Listen to my new episode The Sunday Morning Message at http://tobtr.com/s/2794601. #BlogTalkRadio

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Keeping the Baby but Changing the Bath Water

Most of you have probably heard the old expression, “throwing the baby out with the bath water.” It’s often an apt phrase, and many a reform movement in many a field of human endeavor has done precisely that – managed … Continue reading

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Why We Need the Cosmic Christ

I remember when I was first exposed to Matthew Fox. It was in the late 1990s, and I was serving and Independent Catholic Parish that was one of those Intentional Eucharistic Communities that split from Roman Catholic parishes at a … Continue reading

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Who Made Up THAT Doctrine?

Have you ever wondered where doctrine comes from? The really big ones came from what are called the Ecumenical Councils, a term that is a little misleading today because these councils were called ecumenical not because different denominations participated in … Continue reading

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Welcome

Welcome to the Christ Enlight Blog! What I will outline here is a whole new approach to being a Follower of Jesus. I quite intentionally didn’t say “Christian”, because I truly believe that what passes for institutional Christianity is something … Continue reading

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