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Author: Alisa Ruddell

Alisa Ruddell is a homeschooling mother of four who lives in Charlottesville, VA with her husband Steve. She loves classic literature, reading aloud to her children on the couch, and listening to Charles Dickens novels while going about her household chores. Writing helps her to connect the dots between everything she reads and her day-to-day life.
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Philosophy

From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part four

Read part three. Why You Can Thank Medieval Nominalism for Your Modern Neuroses Your problems aren’t just your problems, and they won’t be solved overnight, … Read More ›

Posted on December 21, 2021December 22, 2021
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Philosophy

From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part three

Read part two. Of All Evil I Deem You Capable Jung said each of us must possess the utmost possible knowledge of our own wholeness, … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2021December 5, 2021
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Philosophy

From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part two

Read part one. A Tale of Two Elephants: Metaphors for the Unconscious Because you are a hybrid creature, a mixture of the mortal dust of … Read More ›

Posted on November 30, 2021December 1, 2021
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Philosophy

From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part one

Jung believed that dream symbols had the value of parables. He said that dreams do not conceal, but rather teach in the best way they know how — not in words but in images.

Posted on October 29, 2021October 29, 2021
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Philosophy

Safety Not Guaranteed: A Christian’s Coming to Terms with Evolution

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” William James … Read More ›

Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021
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Philosophy

Curiosity, Courage, and Compassion in the Underworld

A few years ago, suffering and death took a sledgehammer to my neat little map of reality.

Posted on June 16, 2020June 11, 2020
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Religion

A Meditation on the Face of God

Each year when Advent begins, my heart circles back to the Incarnation, to the mystery that is God’s body. As a part of my practice … Read More ›

Posted on January 4, 2018January 1, 2018
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Religion

Weaving: The Secret of Life

“She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth– ” The woman of Rainer Maria Rilke’s love … Read More ›

Posted on October 10, 2017September 29, 2017

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