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The cross, symbols and co-creating beyond literalism
Personal theology

The cross, symbols and co-creating beyond literalism

Posted on 10 August 202610 August 2026 by Sande Ramage

Crosses are everywhere, planted at roadside crash scenes, prominent on churches and flags, decorating jewellery and tattooed on bodies. A colleague reckons the meaning of a cross is, “pretty obvious and fundamental”, but I’m not so sure.   After years…

Belief: a delicate balancing act
Symbolic and archetypal insight

Belief: a delicate balancing act

Posted on 3 June 202210 August 2026 by Sande Ramage

‘I just want to believe’, she said. The group went quiet. ‘Believe what’, I asked. ‘That the organisation will live up to its values’. There it was laid bare. The human desire for organisations to fix the world. To be…

No religion but still soulful
Personal theology

No religion but still soulful

Posted on 25 February 201810 August 2026 by Sande Ramage

The moment arrived. I opened the New Zealand Census webpage, filled in my code and with one click of the mouse became a No Religion, one of the fastest growing groups in our community. To be honest, I didn’t feel that…

Not Christian theology!
Personal theology

Not Christian theology!

Posted on 29 January 201810 August 2026 by Sande Ramage

‘So,’ said my Jungian analyst, voice quiet but interested. ‘You didn’t put your ordination dates in this autobiography.’ I scrambled to find the page and chuckled when I realised that I hadn’t even noticed the omission. An inadvertent absence was…

  • Much of Jung’s criticism of both religious and medical therapy, therefore, was grounded in his conviction that the modern healing arts and the mainstream Western Christian tradition had severed themselves from the healing, that is whole-making, energies of the psyche. John P. Dourley
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