The one thing people always say when they find out I’m divorced, circumcision, nazism, hippies at the folk fest, Roman soldiers’ sacrament, and hula hoops

Tillich’s concept of the Courage to Be can help us as we contemplate the abyss of non-being. We also discuss my eating disorder, process thought, and Barth vs. Tillich on atonement.

The wound is where the light enters you- Rumi

Tillich and C. S. Lewis sexual relationships are examined as a sign of post-traumatic chaos

As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.—Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried

Post-Traumatic God Episode 6: The Reformers and the Shattering Effects of War

Homicide in war is not reckoned by our fathers as homicide...Perhaps, however, it is well to counsel that those whose hands are not clean only abstain from communion for three years. —St. Basil the Great

Then Pilate wondered if he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. Mark 15:44

“Hell rages around us. It’s unimaginable” Paul Tillich in WWI

The courage to be is found in the god who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt and fear — Paul Tillich. Find Matt Williams on iTunes music or www.retiredarmychaplain.com