Category: Spirituality

I have been pretty angry lately. I started to write out a litany of why, but the list is too long. And I’m mad about the same things

On Saturday, I watched a video posted by a friend who lives on the Mississippi Coast. Her priest and some parishioners were giving instructions about how to proceed

Spiritual bypass is defined as using spiritual language to avoid having to confront psychological or emotional issues. The concept was introduced by John Welwood with a focus on

Over 2,500 years ago, a young Jewish singer songwriter was brave enough to write about the stuff that most churchie folks would keep to themselves or to their

Many of us, for the good of our health and that of our neighbors’, are in some form of “shelter-in-place” where we find ourselves suddenly learning a whole

I was recently asked the following question: Is God against prosperity? If God blesses us with much, is there something wrong with that, since the Bible warns against

Here in March 2020, both in the US and in the world at large, there are many things to fear. The spread of COVID-19 and the US election

“Love the sinner, but hate the sin” is right up there with “everything happens for a reason,” and “he/she is in a better place now” when it comes

Our little church on the Mississippi coast didn’t have a baptistry. Sometimes folks got baptized in the swimming pool at the apartment complex down the street. Other times

The fields of neurology and psychology tell us that journaling can be quite healthy for us emotionally, but in reading St. Augustine’s Confessions, I realized journaling can be