Kenneth Kovacs

Kenneth Kovacs

@kenkovacs.bsky.social

Exploring the depths. Presbyterian minister (PCUSA) in Baltimore. PhD@univofstandrews. Missing Scotland. Jungian Psychoanalyst, CGJung Institut-Zürich (IAAP). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈

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Kenneth Kovacs
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In 1945, Carl Jung wrote to a correspondent: "The approach to the numinous is the real therapy... you are released from the curse of pathology." What would it look like if the Church took that same approach to its mission?

kennethkovacs.substack.comMaking Room for the NuminousWhat would the Christian faith look like if the Church understood itself not as a possessor or guardian of the sacred, but as its steward — a container for encounters with the Holy?
Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

In 1945, Carl Jung wrote to a correspondent: "The approach to the numinous is the real therapy... you are released from the curse of pathology." What would it look like if the Church took that same approach to its mission?

kennethkovacs.substack.comMaking Room for the NuminousWhat would the Christian faith look like if the Church understood itself not as a possessor or guardian of the sacred, but as its steward — a container for encounters with the Holy?

Kenneth Kovacs reposted

Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

What would the Christian faith look like if the Church understood itself not as a possessor or guardian of the sacred, but as its steward — a container for encounters with the Holy? kennethkovacs.substack.com/p/making-roo...

kennethkovacs.substack.comMaking Room for the NuminousWhat would the Christian faith look like if the Church understood itself not as a possessor or guardian of the sacred, but as its steward — a container for encounters with the Holy?
Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

What would the Christian faith look like if the Church understood itself not as a possessor or guardian of the sacred, but as its steward — a container for encounters with the Holy? kennethkovacs.substack.com/p/making-roo...

kennethkovacs.substack.comMaking Room for the NuminousWhat would the Christian faith look like if the Church understood itself not as a possessor or guardian of the sacred, but as its steward — a container for encounters with the Holy?
Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

What are you waiting for? Most of us are waiting for something—a call, an answer, a breakthrough, a new beginning. But what if waiting isn’t empty time? What if it’s where God is most deeply at work? catonsvillepres.org/sermons/acti...

catonsvillepres.orgActive Waiting – Sermons – Catonsville Presbyterian ChurchActive Waiting Seventh Sunday after Pentecost/12th July 2026 “[T]hose who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like...
Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

The Reverend Dr. John Witherspoon deserves to be as well known as Jefferson, Adams, and other founders. Witherspoon believed that the cause of justice and liberty within a nation requires the cultivation of moral character, particularly in its leaders. substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.comJustice, Liberty, and Human NatureJohn Witherspoon insisted that the health of a nation depends upon the moral character of its people and its leaders. Can freedom survive without character?
Kenneth Kovacs
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Just finished James K. A. Smith’s deeply moving and beautiful text. Smith makes a new case for what Karl Rahner said decades ago, “The Christian of the future will be a mystic, or not exist at all.”

Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

Follow me on Substack: On the Way. Let's venture together. "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." ~ T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," Four Quartets substack.com/@kennethkova...

substack.comOn the Way | SubstackA peregrino on the way. Exploring the depths. Presbyterian minister. Jungian psychoanalyst (C.G. Jung Institut-Zürich/IAAP), missing St. Andrews. "What is a life, and what is it for?" ~James E. Loder
Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

"Remember Juneteenth... remember the people whose 'boundless dreams [of freedom] took flight' before we were born, before they themselves were free, who taught us to imagine a better future and demand absolute equality.” ~Historian Annette Gordon-Reed

Kenneth Kovacs
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“The church is called to be the kind of reality at the finite level that God is in eternity.” ~Colin Gunton (1941-2003), The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (1993) Here is the link to last Sunday's sermon: catonsvillepres.org/sermons/comm...

catonsvillepres.orgCommunion – Sermons – Catonsville Presbyterian ChurchCommunion Trinity Sunday | 31 May 2026 One of the greatest revolutions in Christian thought occurred when early Greek church fathers, writing in fourth-century...
Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

“The church is called to be the kind of reality at the finite level that God is in eternity.” ~Colin Gunton (1941-2003), The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (T & T Clark, 1993)

Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

"Remember: if you want to make progress on the path and ascend to the places you have longed for, the important thing is not to think much but to love much, and so to do whatever best awakens you to love." ~Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle (1588)

Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social

To follow Jesus, to be baptized into the flowing waters of our baptism, is to be swept up in the flow of God’s love, invited to be a partner in the dance of God, invited to participate in the divine relationship of God’s life-giving love. Come, Holy Spirit! Come! catonsvillepres.org/sermons/gett...

catonsvillepres.orgGetting Into the Flow – Sermons – Catonsville Presbyterian ChurchSixth Sunday of Easter/ 10th May 2026   With Pentecost coming in two weeks, the lectionary turns to the person and work of the Holy Spirit.