Nov 30, 2021 | All, Body & Mind Connections, Storytelling
Long ago, I spent a couple of weeks getting to know a brilliant professional theologian who had already written an entire shelf of books, while letting him get to know me. This was of vital importance at the time because I was proposing to marry his daughter. The one...
Nov 6, 2021 | All, Biblical Knowledge & Wisdom, Body & Mind Connections, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
We Don’t Need to Change the Story, Just Change Our Eyes as We Read. The entire point of this two-part blog post, of which this is the second half, comes down to this one statement: What we find when we each read and ponder passages in our Bible is a stirring together...
Nov 6, 2021 | All, Biblical Knowledge & Wisdom, Body & Mind Connections, Equity & Justice, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
The setup – issue – so-called problem One of the most valuable insights that repeatedly arises for us in the fields of psychology, philosophy, sociology, meta-position studies of theology, and communications theory that we find being explained through recent...
Sep 13, 2021 | All, Body & Mind Connections, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practice
How and why Christ the Healer UCC is different than the Church you met before. Just a week or two gone by, not long after the take over of Afghanistan, there was a radio interview with an MIT professor who had devoted his life to the study of politics behind war and...