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ron cole
Victoria, British Columbia
trying to live faithfully...search, revealing, and building the Kingdom
Interests: in, writing, poetry, painting and music. a thinker, stretching the limits of theology...to where i grasp, and try to reach for the radical scandalous divine redemptive imagination of jesus. trying to live out the missio dei, the reality that the mission of god is to live out the reality of the gospels in every moment, of everyday life. i'm content, that my truth has become more mystery than certitude. i can only conclude that life is found when i live in, in the midst that everything that that mystery is. that mystery is jesus, that is where life is found.
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Jesus, coming to terms with truth, an alternative story...
Posted Nov 22, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Trail Running...finding a pool of Tranquility.
Sunday we had a big blow over here in Powell River. Ferries cancelled, tired punk rock bands riding out the storm in the historic Rodmay Hotel in Town Site. Visitors get upset by this interruption caused by mother nature’s rudeness.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Fabric of reality...
Posted Nov 19, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Pastures of possibility
Posted Nov 18, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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If we belong to the sun and its warmth, to the bud...
Posted Nov 16, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Beyond winning missions, to friendship...
Posted Nov 16, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Everywhere and everything...
Posted Nov 16, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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That is so beautiful Hope. It is kind of that full circle of life, that the age old wisdom really is becoming children again. To live fully in those wonderfilled moments, exposed out in the wide open spaces and speak simply from the heart. And we simply know because we are pulled along by heart strings.
I was once lost, and now...
“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yours...
I was once lost, and now...
Posted Nov 15, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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I'm back...
Posted Nov 10, 2017 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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My House of Faith...
Posted Sep 13, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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religion, beyond religion...
Posted Sep 12, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Where I'm at ...
Posted Sep 10, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Beyond "our" windows of truth...
Posted Sep 10, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Never a truth...but, and experience to be lived
Posted Aug 30, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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What if...
Posted Aug 30, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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If the Question...
Posted Aug 29, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Beautifully said, Erin. " When it's too late to love, or to love well." I think violence is a result of the lack of imagination, especially redemptive imagination. What happened in Ferguson was a complete breakdown in humanity. The violence, or death of a white person will not bring about any kind of justice for the black community. As much as we think the civil rights movement has changed the landscape of America, it hasn't. We are seeing a re-segregation in America, especially in communities like Ferguson. Marginalized, stereotyped, poverty and rampant unemployment, and a sense of powerlessness. Most white people have no connection or relationship with this reality. Justice, or a non-violent redemptive resolution can only come about in a middle ground of understanding. Yes, it will be extremely difficult...but, maybe that is the non-violent fight.
Iraq/ Syria is something much more insidious. It is fundamentalism, and fanaticism. This is what bothers me so much about "religion ", and one of the biggest reasons I left the church. When the premise of your religion is soley based on belief, you have drawn a permanent line which can not be moved and must be defended. We are seeing some change by progressives, but just to a point. Usually there is still that fundamental mark that can't be touched. So leadership has do again pursue the depths of human imagination to find something truly redemptive...something that embraces something abundantly human, not religious. Sure it is a great risk to move beyond belief...to something profound life giving, and engaging. But if the majority pursued this path, I think there would be hope. ISIS is radical, fanatical extreme religious faction...using extreme violence to strike fear in the soul of a religion. Can love change them, likely not...as you say to late to love. But, I think the Muslim community everywhere needs to tell of a different islamic religion of compassion with the loudest voice possible...change the tide. We need to fight them also to stop them. But, maybe to there will be a time of somekind of reconciliation. If it can happen in Rwanda...it can happen anywhere. Anyways, Erin sorry for rambling on...but, your " when it's too late to love, or to love well ", kindled some great conversation. Peace.
Disarming faith...tough love
Let’s not forget the Christian demand of discipleship: “Love your enemies.” Central to the Gospel announcement of Jesus is the nonviolent love of those who would oppose us: sometimes physically and other times ideologically. At the center of discipleship is love–love for God and for neighbor...
larger, more vivified and unified life...
Posted Aug 24, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Illuminating the surface of things...
Posted Aug 23, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Oh, you are so right Erin. After early in my life of spending 10 years in the Army, almost going to Vietnam and witnessing the whole aftermath of a needless war...and the cost on generation of young men. And then what is going on in the world today...Iraq, Syria, Afganistan and eastern Ukarain. It's a mess of broken humanity.
Do we just write of the seemingly impossible words of Jesus, this scandalous god-man. I think we know in our hearts, there is profound truth there. Maybe the wisdom, and the hard journey is moving as close as we can to that place. I think war, the I idea of just wars has become a default switch to affirm our theological thinking. Maybe if we really thought of more redemptive ways, stretching our human imagination to resolve our diffrences for the common unity of humanity would be a step in that direction. Our history definitely tells us war, and violence never end our human conflicts. Surely our existence, our future will depending on moving in the direction of non-violence. I think the hard words of Jesus...require a whole lot more imagination on our part.
Disarming faith...tough love
Let’s not forget the Christian demand of discipleship: “Love your enemies.” Central to the Gospel announcement of Jesus is the nonviolent love of those who would oppose us: sometimes physically and other times ideologically. At the center of discipleship is love–love for God and for neighbor...
Disarming faith...tough love
Posted Aug 22, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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On the margins...humanity becoming the miracle
This is one of my favorite stories is the gospels ( John 6:1-15 ), everytime I read it, it is like a sun rise that slowly and mysteriously illuminates the landscape of reality to endless possibilities. It continuosly breaks the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 13, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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Speaking the Unspoken...
It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its potential damage to the quality of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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What if on the other side...nothing.
Posted Mar 20, 2014 at Ron Cole : off the map...navigating life.
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