Jack Preston King
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

Mysticism does exist in many churches today, but it stays pretty silent and hidden . . . even among the clergy.

I think if churches would openly celebrate the mystic side of religion the pews would not be emptying. That’s the thing everybody craves, personal encounter with the ineffable. To a large degree that’s what people mean by “spiritual but not religious.” They tried religion seeking the ineffable and didn’t find it there. But they feel intuitively that it exists, so they look elsewhere. The big issue is that religion, which certainly possesses keys to the ineffable, stopped sharing them at some point. My gut sense is that they didn’t do this from a motive of secrecy or control or anything sinister like that, but rather because the church itself forgot their value, and eventually the keys themselves. It’s good to know some are reclaiming those keys in our time.

Thanks, Beth!

Jack Preston King

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