A Way Back to Soul – Part 11

Today I’m blogging about “authority,” and it’s going to take more than one post to cover… I’m convinced that many people throw out the spirituality baby with the religious bathwater over what they perceive to be ridiculous arguments related to authority.  Authority is a way of talking about who you decide is right when there [...]

A Way Back to Soul – Part 1

A few weeks ago I was talking with some pastors about faith, and the loss of it.  We had all bumped up against those who had once believed in a loving God as described by the Christian tradition, but who had awakened to the realization that they had drifted away from that belief. I’m not [...]

Free Seminar: Anxiety, Depression, and the Spiritual Journey

Hello Friends, On Thursday evening, June 18, the Waco Partnership for Psychological and Spiritual Care will be hosting my seminar titled “Anxiety, Depression, and the Spiritual Journey.” Information and the RSVP link can be found HERE. WPPSC is dedicated to fostering conversation about the integration of psychology and spirituality, and to raising funds to subsidize [...]

Be Curious

Presence guides us to a healthy sense of self-restraint and self-sacrifice, enabling us to play with our attachments, to confront our own prison.  We may learn to slip out of the stranglehold of egoism, which is based in desire and in the thoughts generated by desire.  In being present ot the play of desire we [...]

Knee deep in a river, searching for water…

We are knee deep in a river, searching for water.  We are part of an invisible river, but we are so distracted by outer things and what we imagine they could mean to us that we lose contact with the source of our own being. Kabir Edmund Helminski, Living Presence (1992), p. 25 When I [...]

How does an “Authentic Self” vote?

The past few Sundays I’ve been teaching a Sunday School Class at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church here in Waco on the topic of “Monday through Saturday Spirituality.”  Key concepts I’ve worked from: God created us to be peaceful “Authentic” Selves that participate God’s redemption of a broken world by living lives of sacrificial love. Anxiety [...]

Responses to “Marriage as Formation”

Greetings from beautiful Leakey, Texas, a tiny burg that lies along the Frio River. My family has been spending the week of the fourth with a passle of friends from Austin for nearly 15 years! I received more comments on my last blog entry, Marriage as Formation, than on anything I’ve written so far. Some [...]

Marriage as Enrichment

Formatting issues abound in Blogger – line spacing issues… weird font size changes, etc…. I’ve looked into other blogging platforms, and concluded that Blogger has about the same number of issues as the others. If there are any experts out there who have figured out how to minimize the formatting problems with Blogger, I’ll be [...]

Here we go…

I’m  just trying to figure this stuff out!