YouTube: Introduction To The Whispering Messiah, read by Rev. Doug
In this opening reflection from The Whispering Messiah, J Douglas Bottorff invites us into the quiet tension between two voices within the Gospels—Jesus the evangelist and Jesus the mystic. One calls for belief in his person; the other points to direct experience of God’s indwelling presence.
Through the lens of contemplative Christianity and the timeless wisdom of the mystics, Bottorff traces his own awakening to that subtler voice—the whisper beneath the hymn of orthodoxy—that calls us inward, beyond doctrine, to the living Presence itself.
If you’ve ever felt caught between faith and spiritual experience, this message offers a path toward reconciliation and renewal. It’s an invitation to listen—not merely to what has been said about Jesus, but to what he himself heard.
J Douglas Bottorff 