Essays
Embracing Our Humanity
Handouts to Presentation by Katie Skurja at Open Table Conference November 1, 2020
The Three Faces of Victim by Lynne Forrest
When we step out of our oneness with the triune God, we end up living in a dysfunctional relational dynamic called the "Drama Triangle". Click here
Oneness vs. Separation click here
Tale of Two Trees click here
Come Let Us Reason Together
The path of spiritual growth involves many stages of death and resurrection. Every time we find our box is too small to hold a new understanding about God, self, other, or creation, we undergo a death of sorts as we break down the comfort of the container we have been living in to make room for the new.
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The Many Paradoxes of God
Healing our shame and living from our Imago Dei requires embracing paradox in God, ourselves and others. Access Katie Skurja's 3-part essay below:
Part 1: Understanding paradox is essential to spiritual growth
Part 2: When we fail to hold paradox, we slip into heresy
Part 3: To accept that we are created in the image of God is
to accept furious opposites about ourselves