Learning from Barbara Brown Taylor

The new science requires a radical change in how we conceive the world.  It is no longer possible to see it as a collection of autonomous parts, as Newton did, existing separately while interacting.  The deeper revelation is one of undivided wholeness, in which the observer is not separable from what is observed.  Or, in Heisenberg's words, "the common division of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer world, body and soul, is no longer adequate." 
   

Is this physics or theology, science or religion?  At the very least, it is poetry ...  Where is God in this picture?  God is all over the place.  God is up there, down here, inside my skin and out.  God is the web, the energy, the space, the light - not captured in them, as if any of those concepts were more real than what unites them - but revealed in that singular, vast net of relationships that animates everything that is ... God is the unity - the very energy, the very intelligence, the very elegance and passion that makes it all go ... As Joseph Campbell once asked, what if the universe is not merely the product of God but also the manifestation of God - a "eucharistic planet" on which we have been invited to live?   
  
~ Barbara Brown Taylor, "The Luminous Web", p 69-75 
  
SACRED CHRISTIAN WRITINGS: "There is one body and one Spirit ... one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all."  Ephesians 4:4-6 
  
TALK ABOUT IT:  What is your (favorite) image of God? 
  
DO IT (INNER PRACTICE):  How do (can) we practice living as a manifestation of God?
  
DO IT (OUTER PRACTICE):  How do (can) we practice engaging all persons and things as manifestations of God? 
  
LEARNING FROM BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR: CHURCH OF RECONCILIATION