Phillip Michael Garner
Paradise has no History

       History does not exist in a paradisical world where time has no meaning. Without birth, death, and all the violence in-between, there is nothing to record for the bliss of every moment is continual, without disturbance. Life in paradise is peaceful, joyful, without need or desire.

Paradise has no History
Phillip Michael Garner
A Theopoetic Contemplation on the Question: ...

Truth is the judgment of the cross on the world, in this world we crucify God daily to our systems as we face our struggle to survive in a hostile world. When truth is silenced, the voice of God is crucified.

A Theopoetic Contemplation on the Question: What is Truth?
Phillip Michael Garner
A Prayer for the Ages of History

The Lord taught his disciples to pray with a model prayer. The prayer affirms the oneness of humanity under the love of God our Father. The prayer teaches us that God’s reality is apart from the daily experience of humanity.

A Prayer for the Ages of History
Phillip Michael Garner
God likes his Children wrapped in a little bit ...

In Scripture, it is not the language of law that communicates God, it is not the philosophers strenuous exercise in dialectics that communicates God - it is the prophets poetry, the wiseman’s story, the language of the song….

God likes his Children wrapped in a little bit of Skin
Phillip Michael Garner
The Question

Perhaps, we should understand that at the root of humanity’s existence is our innate compatibility with the nature of God. Created in the image and likeness of God and bearing a moral conscience are innate aspects of being human that make us compatible with God’s nature.

The Question

The Blues

Reflections on Sorrow

Reflections on Sorrow

The Blues

     The human capacity to turn sorrow into sweetness begins with tears. Blues songs, in a sense, celebrate sorrow as a sweet reality that can only be resolved through a memory held in the beauty of music. The loss of gospel lament to the feel good ditty of this generations praise songs is to replace facing reality with illusion, even illusory religion. Spirituality faces reality and asks the forbidden questions of religion governed by absolutist ideologies. Spirituality weeps along with the God who weeps.