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The Fire Within

Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God

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The Fire Within

By: Ronald Rolheiser
Narrated by: Br. Benedict Young
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For most religious people, the words God and sex never go together. God is conceived of as holy, pure, sexless, and as morally above the raw desires that so powerfully beset us. Sex, on the other hand, is conceived of as earthy and unholy, something we must snatch, and not without guilt, from the gods. Christianity has struggled mightily with sex; so too have most other religions. And yet when we look at sexual desire and ask where it comes from, there can be only one answer. It comes from God. This is a book on desire, its experience, its origins, its meaning, and how it might be generatively channeled. Sexuality is inside us to help lure us back to God, but dealing with this fire inside us is a lifelong struggle. Ron Rolheiser sheds light on this mystery and the journey it takes us on in these tantalizing fragments that help give us permission to feel what we feel and know that God is still smiling on us.

©2021 Ronald Rolheiser (P)2023 Paraclete Press Christian Living Christianity
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I’m no stranger to spiritual books, many way, way longer than this. In fact this was so short I at first passed it by. But I like the author so gave it a go, a fill in for a flight. But it is profound in its simplicity and brevity. Very wise, liberating and honest. I cannot but recommend it here and to many I meet.

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