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 Aqedah

The Aqedah

I’ve lived with this story most of my life. It’s been immortalized in my mind since the day of a Sunday School lesson. I was five years old or less when my dear Sunday school teacher placed the sketches of Abraham with his knife and Isaac bound laying on a stone altar on the blue flannel board for my young eyes to see. She said Abraham was a man of faith because he was willing to sacrifice his son to the Lord. I thought she must be mad. I refused to believe she knew what she was talking about because this didn’t (in my young mind) have anything to do with the Jesus who loves children of all nations and all shades of flesh.