Your courage is inspiring; God bless you! You are in my prayers.

Sadie:

Though I agree that it may be a little hyperbolic to call that letter "hate mail," it certainly has the potential to be "annoy-me-right-out-of-my-equanimity mail"--which you, by your measured and temperate response, didn't allow it become. Well done!

Well said, Jenifer.

The Incarnation shows the same thing, though a lot of Christians seem to have a way of forgetting that. That's an interesting thought about Tantra.

Thanks, nimitta. Yes, I don't know why these virgin birth stories keep creeping in; Lao Tzu supposedly came down on a falling star, etc. Though I think the resurrection story is meant to convey a genuine spiritual truth in concrete terms. And I think Jesus posed a lot more threat to the established order than the cleansing of the temple conveys--in fact, I suspect that was the least of it. But yes--it's obvious that you have contemplated Jesus deeply; thanks for sharing the fruits of that contemplation.

Off and on. :)

Me, too, Jana!

Thanks, Swami Mike; I think so, too.

Maybe we're all God's children, only Jesus wasn't anything else.

Oh, yes--utilize is a little bloated for us Edwin Newman disciples.