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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie)

@creationspaths.com

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Seeking truth in science, diversity, and wisdom through Creation Spirituality and Christopagan Druidry. Hosted by @cedorsett.com and @queereyeonscifi.com

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 12/10/2026

"Love is not just hugs, sunshine, and rainbows. Love sustained the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Love marched on Washington. Love stands in the breach when all feels lost and shouts, "you shall not pass.”" bit.ly/4e0NQTj #CosmicChrist #BodyOfChrist #FaithAndJustice

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Christ in Every Face, a Gift in Every Hand

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 09/10/2026

"That's what it means to be a Christian after all, to see the face of Christ everywhere we look and to remember what we do to them we do to the Christ we claim to follow and worship.” bit.ly/4e0NQTj #CosmicChrist #BodyOfChrist #FaithAndJustice

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Christ in Every Face, a Gift in Every Hand

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 09/10/2026

"They need us to be angry so they can paint us as unreasonable. … They need us to be afraid so they can keep us locked in our homes of our own accord, doing nothing. True love casts out fear. … We are strongest together.” bit.ly/4e0NQTj #CosmicChrist #BodyOfChrist #FaithAndJustice

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Christ in Every Face, a Gift in Every Hand

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 09/10/2026

"There's no such thing as a small talent and a big talent, because we are all one body. We need all of our talents to accomplish the task. None of us are individually called to save the world. Together, we can and will save the world.” bit.ly/4e0NQTj #CosmicChrist #FaithAndJustice

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Christ in Every Face, a Gift in Every Hand

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 08/10/2026

"We are not alone. We are one body, one vine with many branches, not even the fires of hell can burn us away. Be strong and of good cheer. Together we can move mountains.” bit.ly/4e0NQTj #CosmicChrist #BodyOfChrist #FaithAndJustice

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Christ in Every Face, a Gift in Every Hand

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 08/10/2026

"Remember my beloved siblings, we do not see the face of Christ only in the ones that we love and in the places we honor. We see the face of Christ in our enemies and love them. bit.ly/4e0NQTj #CosmicChrist #BodyOfChrist #FaithAndJustice

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Christ in Every Face, a Gift in Every Hand

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 07/10/2026

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 06/10/2026

A Creation Spirituality reflection on the Cosmic Christ: seeing Christ in all who suffer, and how every gift we bring joins one body in the work of justice.

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 22/09/2026

Happy Autumnal Equinox from Creation's Paths! As we celebrate this second harvest time let us give gratitude for all that we have to harvest. Let us not harvest fear and dread this year, leave those in the field for the Cailleach. Today ask yourself How are you finding joy? What are you harvesting?

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 17/08/2026

Standing above others is a mirage on the desert sand. You feel it like heat in the air, and the longer you walk toward it the further off it goes. No one is great. No one deserves obedience. No one can demand service from a friend. #Embodiment

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The Body Was Never the Trap

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 16/08/2026

If you want to touch the face of God, caress the face of your beloved. When you hold another's hand, you hold the hand of God. Every body is the shrine of the Godhead. There is no relationship that is not a relationship with God. #Embodiment

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The Body Was Never the Trap

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 15/08/2026

“Behold the killing and violence of life. How can this world be good when life lives off death? How could a good God create such things?" #Blessing #Embodiment bit.ly/3RRwsZD 1/2

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The Body Was Never the Trap

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 14/08/2026

He was born blind, and the crowd assumed someone had sinned. Jesus made mud from the ground, washed his eyes, and what actually opened was everyone else's sight. He says it plainly. I was not broken. The community around me was broken. You were not born broken either.

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The Body Was Never the Trap

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 14/08/2026

“Wisdom controls ignorance by showing more of the nature of reality with each revolution around the wheel. Wisdom turns the wheel and hands itself back to faith to continue the turning of the wheel.” #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 12/08/2026

“Concentration controls distraction,” “Its power is deep focus that sees only the matter at hand without extraneous details worming their way in." #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 11/08/2026

Effort controls acedia, the desire to stay put so nothing good or bad can happen. A thought you never enact cannot change you. Faith that never leaves your head grows no fruit to testify for it. Move. Let the wheel turn. #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 11/08/2026

"I looked within and saw my own wheel turning, and the five powers driving the wheel in its motion. Then something awakened within me. I realized that viriditas is a faculty and verdure is a power." #MaryMagdalene #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan

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The Wheel That Turns in Us

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 11/08/2026

"Mindfulness is a way of seeing, a way of living, and a way of being. ... It calms the mind and soothes the heart. It turns the wheel so life may be lived honestly and sincerely.” #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 10/08/2026

"Gratitude is the root of compassion and the heart of wisdom which gives thanks for the world as it is." #MaryMagdalene #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan

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The Wheel That Turns in Us

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 10/08/2026

Mary listened to a teacher from outside her tradition and lost nothing. He said faith and she thought emunah. He said mindfulness and she thought hineini. Neither flattened into the other. Receiving was never converting. #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 10/08/2026

"Effort spawns many effects into the world and they will be what they are. So long as the action is wise and moves you toward compassion and awakening, then the effort is holy and good.” #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 09/08/2026

"This is not a mere belief but the confidence that comes from testing and practice." #MaryMagdalene #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan

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The Wheel That Turns in Us

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 09/08/2026

"Faith is the trust in practice we develop over time." "Faith controls doubt, not because it is blind or demanding, but because it is tested and found to be a truth that helps us in life." #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 09/08/2026

You were taught that faith means believing without testing. Faith is what you receive on trust and then carry into the world to see whether it holds. If it cannot survive testing, it was obedience wearing faith's clothes. #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 08/08/2026

Blessing and blessed is the light of the world that gives us wisdom. #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan bit.ly/4fMzSWw

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 07/08/2026

Faith is not what you believe. It is what you tested, and carried out into the world, and found good. #faith #MaryMagdalene #FiveSpiritualPowers #Viriditas #Christopagan

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The Wheel That Turns in Us

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 28/07/2026

Relationships do not end at death. Mary Magdalene did not offer that as consolation. She said it as testimony, standing on a road she had walked toward a tomb and was now walking away from. #MaryMagdalene #GreeningGospel #ChristianMysticism open.substack.com/pu...

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 27/07/2026

Joanna came from the courts of earthly power. She turned wealth into mercy, privilege into service, mourning into witness. Empire poured out its wrath, hoping to put out the light. The light is still here. So is she. #MaryMagdalene #GreeningGospel #ChristianMysticism

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The Heart That Beats in Us

One Heart, Five Witnesses, and the Word That Cannot Be Buried

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 25/07/2026

With each beat of her heart, an angel ran up through her body, then down again. Heaven and earth passing through one woman. You do not have to go anywhere to become the place where that circle turns. #MaryMagdalene #GreeningGospel #ChristianMysticism

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The Heart That Beats in Us

One Heart, Five Witnesses, and the Word That Cannot Be Buried

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 24/07/2026

New essay in the Greening Gospel, published in the week of the feast of Mary Magdalene. I keep coming back to the moment Mary Magdalene turns around. #MaryMagdalene #GreeningGospel #ChristianMysticism

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The Heart That Beats in Us

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 24/07/2026

You don't have to choose between the cross and the oak. In Essay 6 of the Greening Gospel, Calvary is just another cutting of the same tree that's been rising back up since before Eden. #TreeOfLife #Viriditas #ChristianMysticism

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The Tree of Life

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 22/07/2026

Tend the greening of your own heart. Don't fence in the grove where you live, and don't covet the light given to somebody else's. That's the whole teaching, really. #TreeOfLife #Viriditas #ChristianMysticism

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The Tree of Life

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 21/07/2026

A king once burned every grove he could find and still lost everything at Megiddo. The lords of Babylon keep making the same mistake. The tree they cut down has never once stayed dead. #TreeOfLife #Viriditas #ChristianMysticism

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The Tree of Life

Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 21/07/2026

Standing stones at Shechem. Oaks at Mamre. A tent that glowed like fog. Long before churches, the holy showed up in trees and tents and stones, and it still does. #TreeOfLife #Viriditas #ChristianMysticism #druid

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The Tree of Life

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 20/07/2026

Before Eden, before the beginning, one pole was driven into the deep and it rooted there. Every tree of life since, in every soil, is that same root wearing a different trunk. Essay 6 of the Greening Gospel is a vision of what's growing beneath us all. #TreeOfLife #Viriditas

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The Tree of Life

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 17/07/2026

"The Christ is wild, free and flowing through all that is, was, and ever shall be. He cannot be held, but joined in the dance." #WildChrist #MaryMagdalene #Viriditas #CosmicChrist

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The Wild Christ and the Solidarity of the One Life

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 15/07/2026

"He is the vine, and I am the greenness of the leaves." Not two beings meeting at a tomb. One greening life moving root to branch, no boundary between the anointer and the anointed. Christ as sap, not statue. #WildChrist #MaryMagdalene #Viriditas #CosmicChrist

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The Wild Christ and the Solidarity of the One Life

Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 14/07/2026

Fear, greed, and the lust for power nailed him to a cross and crowned him with thorns. It didn't work. "No weapon forged against him could destroy him." Babylon still tries. The tomb still comes up empty every time. #WildChrist #MaryMagdalene #Viriditas #CosmicChrist

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The Wild Christ and the Solidarity of the One Life

Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 29/06/2026

The dry season has a name: siccitas. There is a teaching for it. Not comfort. A practice. Holy boldness that arises from joy when the drought has taken everything else. Even here. Precisely here. www.creationspaths.c... #JohnTheBaptist #HolyBoldness #PropheticCall

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The Prophet in the Wilderness

Light, Shalom, and the Prophetic Way from Babylon to the Jordan

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 28/06/2026

John left the security of the priesthood when he could no longer look away. Not because he was certain. Because the suffering was too visible to ignore. That is what holy boldness looks like. Not confidence. Clarity. www.creationspaths.c... #JohnTheBaptist #HolyBoldness #PropheticCall

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The Prophet in the Wilderness

Light, Shalom, and the Prophetic Way from Babylon to the Jordan

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 26/06/2026

The prophet is not the light. The prophet is the lens. Not the source. Not the gateway. The one who focuses what is already shining. The Light is already in you. The question is what you are pointing it at. www.creationspaths.c... #JohnTheBaptist #HolyBoldness #PropheticCall

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The Prophet in the Wilderness

Light, Shalom, and the Prophetic Way from Babylon to the Jordan

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 26/06/2026

"It is not that everything happens for a reason, but that in this precise moment we have a call to holy boldness." www.creationspaths.c... #JohnTheBaptist #HolyBoldness #PropheticCall

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 21/06/2026

Simca is not my private joy. It is not my precious joy. It is our joy, born in community. It is the dog's whole body wagging when the astronaut comes home. It is the laugh at the wake when someone tells the right story. It resists by refusing to stop.open.substack.com/pu... #PrideMonth #Christopagan

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The Queer Gospel of Liberation

The stone the builders rejected was always the cornerstone.

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 19/06/2026

Certainty is such a bad place to be acting from because when you're certain of something, you don't ask questions anymore. And you're not going to question where those answers came from. Let go of certainty. That is the path. open.substack.com/pu... #PrideMonth #Christopagan #QueerFaith

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The Queer Gospel of Liberation

The stone the builders rejected was always the cornerstone.

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 19/06/2026

If you feel alone today, look at all the hands that made you. Not all of them were gentle. Some left bruises. But love, justice, joy, and hope are still the hands that heal. You were made by a thousand kindnesses, even if you can't see them all yet. www.creationspaths.c... #Impermanence #love

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Everything Changes. Nothing Is Permanent. Hallelujah.

Mother Christ Teaches the Way of Hevel and Simcha

Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 19/06/2026

There is no separate self in the same way there are no separate rivers. Different banks, different days, one water moving through all of it. The breath you just took was never only yours. Hevel. Mist. Breath of breath. All of it borrowed, all of it given, all of it home.

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Everything Changes. Nothing Is Permanent. Hallelujah.

Mother Christ Teaches the Way of Hevel and Simcha

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 19/06/2026

The scripture says Jesus is the stone the builders rejected, on which the temple of God is built. If the Cosmic Christ is the stone the builders rejected, what does that make the rest of us? We were never the castoffs. We were always the cornerstone. open.substack.com/pu... #PrideMonth #Christopagan

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The Queer Gospel of Liberation

The stone the builders rejected was always the cornerstone.

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 17/06/2026

They wanted us afraid. They wanted us divided. They needed us to fight each other so we would not see what they were doing. The culture war is not a moral disagreement. It is a mechanism. The question is not who is right. It is who profits from the division.

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The Queer Gospel of Liberation

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 17/06/2026

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Creation's Paths (usually Charlie) @creationspaths.com · 15/06/2026

God is not a being. God is a process: creating, connecting, healing, loving, becoming. So are you. That is what Mary Magdalene said when someone asked her what God is. Viriditas is the flow that makes it possible.

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A Vision of Viriditas

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