HeyJaredGhostly Counsel
True myth, deep magic. An Anglican priest's quest to retrace ancient paths in Japan and England, finding common ground between Christian metaphysics and traditional Eastern wisdom for defence against secular technocracy.
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The Arhats Laugh (opens the original)
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The Nondualist Heresy (opens the original)
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Is the Christian “dualism” between our creator God and His creatures fundamentally incompatible with Japanese religiosity? Travel plans stopped me from writing last week, so here is a substantial article for you based on a chapter of my PhD thesis. I hope it will be of interest not just to Buddhologists, but to anyone interested in Japanese religion and the critiques and assumptions facing Christian mission here. In other news, I’ve been interviewed on the Holy C of E podcast about <a href="http
An Apostolate on the Offensive (opens the original)
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Greetings, readers, and thank you as ever! This is part two of a series I started some time ago on mission in Japan, long promised and I hope eagerly awaited. In other news, on the mission front, I have just been to look at a Japanese-style room available for rent in a shared space for start-ups. There’s an independent cafe and bookshop there specialising in philosophy and selling local craft beer, a perfumer making her goods from local ingredients, an acupuncturist and maybe soon, a little plac
What we’ve lost (opens the original)
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My dear readers, If you have not already joined the 100,000+ who subscribe to Gospel Simplicity, the podcast and YouTube channel hosted by , then I heartily commend you so to do. Austin is a young and fairly new Anglican of sound theological learning, who invites a refreshingly ecumenical cast of interviewees not for argument, but for genuine conversation. He’s not one of these apologists out to “own” anyone else. In this alone, he represents something of the best
The Black Icon (opens the original)
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