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Dream Work & the Unlived Life
In my previous article, Living the Unlived Life, I explored the process of navigating the middle passage on our way to engaging our...
Michael Simmons
Jun 11, 20248 min read
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Living Our Unlived Life
Living Our Unlived Life “Living our unlived life is the most important task in our mature years, to be achieved long before a tragedy...
Michael Simmons
Jun 11, 20245 min read
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Recovering From Divine Codependency
This article looks at how core Christian beliefs perpetuate unhealth and codependency with the Divine through unconscious repetition...
Michael Simmons
Jun 11, 20248 min read
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I'd Rather Be Whole Than Good: Healing the Ego-Shadow Split
Ego-Shadow Split “I would rather be whole than good.” - C.G. Jung The underlying draw for individuals to enter shadow work is their...
Michael Simmons
Jun 11, 20245 min read
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We Must Transgress to Grow
“Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples are fasting, but yours are not?” Jesus...
Michael Simmons
Nov 3, 20224 min read
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Possessed by Trauma, Healing Complexes
Jesus and the disciples went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit...
Michael Simmons
Jan 31, 20225 min read
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Companioning Our Shadow: Emotions & Relationships
Course Offering: I'm offering a 2 hour virtual course on October 15th 9am-11am PST titled: Companioning Our Shadow: Emotions and...
Michael Simmons
Oct 4, 20214 min read
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Mistaking the Divine
This is a short reflection I wrote for my community at George Fox University. Sharing here as a reminder to keep walking. Be honest, what...
Michael Simmons
Jul 23, 20212 min read
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Do You Believe in God?
Do you believe in God? Yes. Yes because I’m afraid of no. Yes because I do not know who asks, or why they ask. Yes because yes keeps...
Michael Simmons
Jul 2, 20212 min read
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My Body Given For You...So You Don't Eat Others
“And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”...
Michael Simmons
Jan 1, 20213 min read
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This Land is Your Land: On the Legacy of Displacing
I am a Pacific Northwest transplant. I have no roots here, no heritage, no family. If you ask me who I am, I’ll tell you about my partner...
liz0958
Oct 11, 20205 min read
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Surprised by Laughter
When did you last laugh? Do you remember it? It’s been some time since I had a real deep and soul cleansing laugh. You know the kind of...
Michael Simmons
Aug 25, 20203 min read
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From Loneliness to Solitude: Pursuing Social Justice From Within
“The movement from loneliness to solitude is not a movement of growing withdrawal but is instead a movement toward a deeper engagement in...
Michael Simmons
Jul 15, 20205 min read
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My IG Story Tells Me So.
In these days we are witnessing the ultimate behavior modifying endeavor: those of us in the initial stages of our racial identity...
liz0958
Jun 17, 20204 min read
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White, Woke, and Wanting: Why Being a Dissenting Oppressor Isn’t Good Enough
I have been thinking much on my own process of being a racist in recovery. - Two months ago I was pulled over for holding my cell phone...
liz0958
Jun 1, 20204 min read
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Tongues of Old
Pentecost was never about something new, but about something very old, ancient in fact. Pentecost was about hearing the good news that...
Michael Simmons
May 31, 20204 min read
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Re-sensitized
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything,...
Michael Simmons
May 24, 20202 min read
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Beyond 2.23
It’s been 30 days since Jesus was murdered on Good Friday. About 7 weeks prior, on February 23rd, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in broad...
Michael Simmons
May 10, 20205 min read
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Curse and Confess
As social media has been flooded in the last week with the realities of systemic racism in America, I’ve been questioning why - why now?...
liz0958
May 9, 20203 min read
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Another Prayer For A Privileged People
Our Father who art in heaven, rend the heavens and come down. Holy is your name. Holy and whole making, full of justice for Ahmaud and...
Michael Simmons
May 7, 20203 min read
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