Approximately 70% of the human body is water. Interestingly, 71% of the surface of Earth is covered with water. Water is necessary for life. It was through the water of life, amniotic fluid, that we developed and were ushered into life. Water is used for ritual in every major religion… Read More »Holy Water
A few months ago, I was asked to be part of a panel discussing policing, public policy, and race. The event was sponsored by a professional psychological association and was titled, “After Ferguson.” I was invited to be part of this panel because I am faculty in a graduate school… Read More »Black Lives Matter
While sipping my morning coffee, I skimmed news headlines. One item caught my attention on National Public Radio’s web site: Astronomers Present New Information on the Aging Universe. http://www.npr.org/2015/08/10/431343053/astronomers-present-new-research-on-the-aging-universe The universe is 14 billion years old. It began with what we commonly call the Big Bang. From the Big Bang,… Read More »Musings on a Cosmic Spirituality
About a week ago, one of my Facebook (FB) friends posted this comment as a status up-date: “Everybody sins & God loves everybody. No exceptions. How come people like to separate the clauses?” I may not have given the comment much notice, but this FB friend is known to be… Read More »Sin: Can We Talk About It?
The year was 1971. We sat in a classroom with desks in straight rows. The high school guidance counselor walked in as a hush fell upon the room. After dumping books and papers on the desk, he went to the chalk board and wrote, “Know Thyself.” The “guidance” class required… Read More »Exercise and Self-Knowledge: Dimensions of the Spiritual Path
In the mid 1980’s, I read a novel by May Sarton: Anger. Because her autobiographic work, The Journal of a Solitude, touched me deeply, I hoped her novel exploring expressions of anger would help me sort out my own experience of anger. Anger is an emotion which has complicated my… Read More »Anger: A Signal for Change
Over the last month, I’ve made weekly trips beyond the suburbs along a bumpy road far from the busy city. While it’s a drive out of my way, it’s a trip I look forward to. I always find something I didn’t expect – something good to bring home. My destination:… Read More »Gratitude for Being Sustained
It’s a statement I’ve heard in various forms. It goes something like this. “I respect all spiritual paths.” Another version of this same perspective is, “Everyone has a right to her own beliefs.” Or another similar perspective is this: “All paths lead to the same source.” All of these statements… Read More »Respecting All Spiritual Paths: Isn’t that Naïve?
