I’m not an economist and I, like most of us in the occident, enjoy an historically unprecedented standard of living, yet, even from my...

Rejection is a form of loss, suffering, bereavement. It may be external, as when someone doesn’t like the music you composed, the poem...

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 – the Lunar New Year, AKA, Chinese New Year, the year of the snake. Snakes get a bad rap, perhaps because of...

The behavioral activation system (BAS) is a neurobehavioral system that motivates people to seek rewards and achieve goals. It's also...

Mt. 13:3b “Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Other...

Radiant purposes of slowly bursting understandings Allow room for the unveiling of violet spinning mysteria That reaches to the place...

We all want to belong. We all want to be loved. We all want to be accepted. It feels good to be welcomed into any group, but especially...

Things cruise along, business as usual, until there’s a paradigm-shifting breakthrough. It was assumed humans could not fly until the...

Who am I? It is vital for us to discover our authentic selves. We all emerge into adulthood wearing layers of personae. They are...

Amongst some fundamentalist Christian nationalists there is an extremely toxic idea masquerading as “Biblical marriage.”   I recently...

Three times in Romans 1 Paul refers to God giving the unrepentant over:   24  Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their...

It seems like no one listens anymore. Talking heads yell over one another on television, politicians utter absurd outlandish lies that...

The word “professional” has shifted in meaning in the last few decades. It traditionally referred to anyone whose job required an...

Fear is a normal physiological response to danger. I was hiking along a stream when I suddenly saw a venomous copperhead snake coiled,...

A Healing Faith Community   It is well documented that sexual abuse perpetrated by men in power [1] is far too common in both Catholic...

A numinous experience is a spiritual experience with a deep sense of awe and wonder that brings with it a profound awareness of both...

-1- We made up games as we went Jumping, laughing, hiding, Count to one hundred Ready or not here I come Olly Olly Oxen Free Here we go...

If you identify as male and desire wholeness in your life, there are four women with whom you need to develop a relationship. The first...

Hope Three age-abiding things: faith, hope, and love. What is hope? In common vernacular, we use the word “hope” to mean something we...

The Holy Spirit is called ruach, pneuma, and shekhinah. The Hebrew word ruach is translated “spirit,” “breath,” or “wind,” and refers to...