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5 months ago

The Descending Current of Love: Presence, Immanence, and The Depth That Heals

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14May

LOVE THAT GROUNDS: INTRODUCING THE DESCENDING CURRENT Some forms of love do not lift us upward but bring us inward and downward—into the body, into memory, into the palpable here-and-now. They deepen us. They help us settle into presence. They ask us not to rise above life but to be fully in it. This is the Descending Current of Love: the movement of spirit not toward escape or transcendence, but...

5 months ago

On the Mountain with Kalen: A Dialogue on the Two Currents of Love

By Joe Perez, M.Div.

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ASCENDING WITH HETEROPHILIA, DESCENDING WITH HOMOPHILIA The sun was just beginning to descend behind the western ridge, casting golden light across the rocky plateau where Kalen O. Tolán and a small group of students had gathered. They had hiked together in silence most of the afternoon, breathing in the clarity of alpine air and the vast stillness that comes only at high elevation. Now they...

5 months ago

A Note on Terminology for Same-Sex Love and Desire

By Joe Perez, M.Div.

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13May

THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE Language is never just about precision—it’s about poetry, power, and presence. At Soulfully Gay II, we take the words we use seriously, especially when they touch on something as intimate and sacred as same-sex love and desire. And so today, I want to share a few thoughts about the terminology we’ll be using throughout this project. Let’s begin with a simple observation: our...

6 months ago

Gayness as Self-Immanence: An Insight As Seen From Many Angles

By Joe Perez, M.Div.

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GAYNESS AS THE GROUND OF REALITY What if the love that a gay man feels for another is not only a personal experience, but also a key to understanding the structure of reality itself? That question has haunted me—in the best way—for many years. My work in queer theology and spirituality begins with a simple proposition: gayness, or more precisely homophilia—the love of sameness—is a metaphor for...

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