HeyJaredYael Dubin, MD, PhD, PCC
I'm a theologian, an IFS practitioner, and someone who grew up in my mother's dive bar watching God show up in strange places. This is where I write about all of it. The sacred, the stuck, the slowly-becoming-whole. Paid subscribers get every word.
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The Rupture (opens the original)
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I’ve had many challenging years in my life, but 2011 was by far the worst. I was in seminary, writing a thesis on divine love, when the worst possible thing happened to someone I love. This chapter is about how my theology of love, and the notion of sin as blindness, were field-tested by truly traumatic circumstances—and about the long road to recovery afterwards. Read more
And Then the Light Went Out (opens the original)
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Heaven turned out not to be a place we arrive at on some future date, but a place available now, to anyone. Including me, at twelve, on my canopy bed.The light of awareness was so bright when I read those passages about the kingdom of heaven already among us. When I put it together that the kingdom of heaven was inside us and that we were simply blind to it in ourselves and in one another. If we could see it, the world would look different. We would structure society differently, and individuals
Seeking Salvation in a Shot Glass (opens the original)
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As a child, I was very confused by the notion of salvation. When I started reading the Bible for myself, what I took from the text turned out to be fairly aligned to the notion of salvation as commonly understood. Well, at least as understood two thousand years ago.Salvation, back then, wasn’t about the afterlife, contrary to what the church teaches.But once I learned about quantum mechanics and the human body I learned something even more radical. Salvation is a full-body participation sport. I
Heaven Is Already Here (opens the original)
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Last week: a library book about her mother’s disease became a question that would define my whole life — would I become my mother? If there were a version of “salvation” that could prevent that, I was all in.When I was twelve, I really didn’t understand what salvation was. I didn’t understand truly who Jesus was either. I knew Jesus was the son of God, and that was about the extent of it. I knew that he came to do something good for us, and that was about the extent of it. But I didn’t understan
Life: A Gift or a Sentence? (opens the original)
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Today is the first installment of Chapter 3: Seeking Salvation in a Shot Glass. If sin is blindness and God isn’t mad to begin with, then what is salvation about?One sunny summer day, bored with children’s literature, I thought I would brave the adult stacks. Browsing the stacks, I stumbled upon a book that, maybe more than any other book, would change my life. I’ve never read it, even to this day. The book was Nancy Friday’s My Mother, My Self. I turned to the jacket and read the premise of the
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