Coming of age in the Vietnam War Era, I learned slogans like, “Give peace a chance.” Fifty years later, we’ve not given peace a chance. Instead, the world remains conflicted by violence. Because of political divisions, people are less civil toward each other than they were before. With the pandemic,… Read More »Peace in a Violent World
It is sometimes difficult for people to identify the spiritual dimension of their lives. While many books introduce people to a particular spiritual or religious path, many of these books are not very helpful when someone isn’t sure what’s right for them. The Good Road: The Journey Along the Spiritual… Read More »The Good Road: The Journey Along a Spiritual Path
As people incorporate prayer and spiritual practice in their lives, some wonder what to do. As an example, I’m sharing some aspects of my practice – my morning routine and the way I incorporate meditation and spiritual reading. Perhaps it will help you to consider what would be helpful for… Read More »Building Your Spiritual Practice: Habits, Meditation, and Spiritual Reading
Each week for 13 years, I posted a blog entry for E-merging. Over that time, I took one three-month break. The blog had been very active in the past. At its height, there were about several hundred unique visits to the site each month. Presently, it’s rare for a posting… Read More »Writing this Blog and the Future
I just posted a new weekly video on my YouTube channel. It’s about finding the right spiritual direction. Check it out and subscribe to my channel for more videos!
One aspect of my spiritual practice is something called “spiritual reading.” It’s a contemplative practice of slowly reading an inspirational text and allowing it to speak to or captivate me in some way. When the pandemic began in Spring of 2020, I turned to The Revelations of Divine Love by… Read More »Spiritual Nourishment in a Pandemic
They say that those who don’t learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Yes, there are some things that people do which can be considered patterns that repeat generation after generation. But I’m not sure that knowing about the historic events prevents them from being repeated. In… Read More »Mindfulness, the Pandemic, and Getting Back to Business
I’ve been staying in regular contact with my close friends. We’ve been talking by phone more often. Our conversations repeat various themes. In addition to discussing the news of the COVID 19 pandemic, we share the range of emotional states we experience. It seems that we’re all cycling through fear,… Read More »Emotions and Living with the Pandemic
