Questioning what we’ve been taught and digging deeper into what we believe is necessary to form a healthy spiritual life. What questions should you be asking? Join me in this video as I explore the questions we ask about faith as we deconstruct dogma and reconstruct a better-integrated spirituality. The… Read More »Deconstructing Religion to Reconstruct a Spiritual Life
WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? How about this? What would Jesus want us to do? Anyone who seriously reads the New Testament gospels will be uncomfortable when they realize what Jesus actually wants from his followers. The following is a text version of this posting. Some years ago, there was… Read More »What Would Jesus Want?
Many people were raised in conservative religious contexts and as adults grow beyond the confines of their childhood belief systems. Sometimes, a question comes up for them: what if they were actually right all along? This question could reflect unresolved spiritual abuse. In this video, I am discussing how growing… Read More »The Religious Conservative: What If They Are Right?
Killing your ego? Denying yourself? Transcend yourself? Some spiritual and religious teachings seem to convey a sense that there’s something wrong with being the person you are. Yet, psychology stresses the importance of affirming who you are. In this brief video, I explore what it means to have a healthy… Read More »Killing the Ego? Is that Spiritual?
Both religion and spiritual practice are sources of division among people. The divisions are often about what people believe as well as the ways people practice. The divisions are based on a binary set of options: one is right and the other is wrong. Yet, what’s true in all the… Read More »The Universal Truth in Religion and Spirituality
Religion and spirituality: how do millennials understand these topics? I interviewed a group of people from the millennial generation. Here’s what I found out. You may be surprised at how they view both religion and spiritual practice.
We’re having a heat wave. It’s spring and we’ve already had over ten days with temperatures above 90 degrees. That usually doesn’t happen in Atlanta until late July or August. But it’s happened in May. Given the weather, when the workers from the lawn care service arrived late in the… Read More »Faith in Our Communities
The following is a brief excerpt from my book, The Integrated Self: A Holistic Approach to Spirituality and Mental Health Practice. In this passage, I explain that the commonly used distinction between religion and spirituality is very narrow and prevents us from appreciating that spirituality is a dimension of all… Read More »Spirituality: A Dimension of Human Experience