Certainty of Compassion in Uncertain Times
I feel the tears in my city and from people everywhere who have become untethered from the promise of security. … a voice is speaking. “It is I, the compassionate.”
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:21:48-05:00August 13th, 2020|Tags: Early Christian Texts, Secret Revelation of John|
I feel the tears in my city and from people everywhere who have become untethered from the promise of security. … a voice is speaking. “It is I, the compassionate.”
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:15:15-05:00June 11th, 2020|Tags: Early Christian Texts, Injustice, Racial Justice, Secret Revelation of John|
But it’s neither a form of escapism, nor privilege for a favored few. It requires faithful living with the gifts of the spirit, not the alluring attractions of materialism.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2020-03-05T01:41:44-05:00March 5th, 2020|Tags: Celene Lillie, Early Christian Texts, Genesis, Reality of the Rulers, Savior, Secret Revelation of John|
I might actually call her [Eve] a female Christ figure. She’s violated like Christ on the cross. There is a healing or a resurrection that happens. An interview with Dr. Celene Lillie.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:17:03-05:00January 23rd, 2020|Tags: Faith, Letter of Peter to Philip, Odes of Solomon, Secret Revelation of John, Sentences of Sextus, Testimony of Truth|
I understand study leads to loss of faith. But I also want to bear witness to the way this study can be the source of deeper faith and trust.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:18:03-05:00January 9th, 2020|Tags: Empowerment, Hypostasis of the Archons, Reality of the Rulers, Secret Revelation of John|
Dr. King drew on Biblical imagery for his conviction in this empowerment, and he would undoubtedly have appreciated the powerful message in support of his cause from the then-unknown extracanonical texts.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:11:58-05:00September 18th, 2019|Tags: Climate, Extracanonical Texts, Gospel of Thomas, Secret Revelation of John|
One of the biggest problems in our global concern with climate change is the fact that people are angry and divided over the right course of action.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-05-14T23:58:37-04:00September 5th, 2019|Tags: Extracanonical Texts, Gnosticism, Salvation, Savior, Secret Revelation of John|
In the Secret Revelation of John, the disciple John asks the Savior a crucial question: does everybody get saved? No, if we look at it one way. But yes, if we look at it another way.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:05:55-05:00April 25th, 2019|Tags: Climate, Early Christian Texts, Ecology, Secret Revelation of John|
"Maybe it’s not too great a leap of faith to consider that the Creator of the world would be able to revive it (transform it / save it) when we allow the Spirit of Life to transform us first."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:08:19-05:00December 1st, 2018|Tags: Healing, Secret Revelation of John|
This was the God I learned in Jesus. Someone in the second century knew something very important about this God that encourages me even now.