I finished the meeting with a sense of frustration. While I’ve been through this before, I found myself again amazed at the amount of time that was spent addressing non-critical details. The words of a former colleague came to mind. “Some people just major in minors.” In other words, there… Read More »On Being Here … Or Not
I had returned from running errands on Saturday afternoon. Settling in with a cool drink on a hot summer afternoon, I signed online to check email and the news. As I opened the web browser, a red banner announced: Amy Winehouse found dead. I remember first hearing Winehouse’s music a… Read More »Addiction versus a Balance Life
It’s been my guilty pleasure for the summer. Yes, a guilty pleasure: something a bit out of my mainstream that I’ve really enjoyed. I hated to see it end. It was the perfect thing for me to do before bed on these summer evenings. Over the last two months, I’ve… Read More »My Guilty Pleasure
If we’re honest, most of us recognize that we regularly tell ourselves negative things about ourselves. While we each have versions of this negative “self-talk,” in some way we each say things to ourselves like, “You’re not good enough. You don’t fit in. You’re not good looking. You just can’t… Read More »Book Review: A Quiet Mind: Uniting Body, Mind and Emotions in Christian Spirituality by the Rev. Eva McIntyre
Our actions, emotions, and thoughts are animated in and through the spiritual dimension that makes us human. It’s the vitality of the human spirit that seeks expression in the things we think, do, say, and feel. It’s common sense that the other dimensions of our lives need to be properly… Read More »Spirituality: It’s About the Way We Live
It was a familiar drive. Taking the exit from the freeway, I followed a heavily traveled street along the river for a few miles. I’d frequently pass barges carrying ore or other materials for the mills. I’d cross a small bridge and make a right turn over the rail road… Read More »Immigrant Roots Today
It’s a course I usually don’t teach. But an instructor was needed. While it’s outside of my program (graduate psychology), I agreed to be available for this undergraduate course because of the topic: ethics. As the course began, I explored the differences between ethics, morality and law. People understand law,… Read More »The Way We Live – and Views that Divide
It happened in Europe after World War I. The continent was in shambles. The Western world faced depression. The people remembered: in France, Italy, Germany, and England, the troops all went to war with the blessing of clergy and the nationalistic belief: God is on our side! But in the… Read More »What Would It Be Like?
