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Christianity as a Set of Insistent Questions

Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

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Is It a Trama or a Transcendental Experience?

When i was 14 and discovered thomas merton, the journal he wrote at the monastery, he was talking about that. And so that drew me to the monastery, and spent six years there at cloisterd monastery. Then, when i was sexually abused there by one of the monks, had kind of a breakdown on my trum it came back, and i left the church. But then i found i had it, like mercy, like ere all were infinitely love broken people. I would sayth an mi, i don't want to put words in your mouth, but i want to test a hypothesis here. It seems to me you had this powerful, direct experience of god

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