Room for One
Mary asked if I’d found my way through the “narrow gate.” Her question deserved more than the brief answer I gave — so here is the fuller one. It begins with a single word we tend to mishear.
Mary asked if I’d found my way through the “narrow gate.” Her question deserved more than the brief answer I gave — so here is the fuller one. It begins with a single word we tend to mishear.
Words are only one of the languages we speak. A look at symbolism as the bridge between words and reality — and at one symbol, death, sounding the same note at every level, from a garden to the Holy of Holies.
The word we translate as “law” means something aimed at a target. What changes when you see where it was always pointing?
The feast calendar puts Atonement years past the cross. The cross says otherwise. Both are true — and the contradiction dissolves the moment you stop reading it as one straight line.
The feast calendar places Atonement long after the cross. The cross is full of it anyway. Both appear true — how do we hold both?