Changing Hearts, Changing Minds
Here is a list of rules formulated decades ago by the legendary social psychologist and game theorist Anatol Rapoport, as abridged by the philosopher, Daniel Dennett: “How to compose a successful...
View ArticleThe Resurrection of Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene was the first person, male or female, to witness the empty tomb…the first to see angels who reported the resurrection…the first to hear the voice of, and see, the risen Christ…and the...
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Hidden Talents
My buddy Nagy – of blessed memory – used to visit James in a Los Angeles County Jail where he was fighting a capital case for 9 1/2 years, trying to avoid the death sentence if found guilty. Nagy...
View ArticleSacred Activism
Andrew Harvey, Oxford scholar and visionary, believes that our survival depends on Sacred Activism, a fusion of profound mystical awareness, passion, clarity and sacred practice with wise, dedicated,...
View ArticleAncient Hospitality: A Lost Religious Practice
Hospitality to strangers was a very big deal throughout the ancient world. I am not sure if any of us in the modern era have any appreciation for just how important it was. There were no hotels, no...
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Complex Trauma and Spiritual Healing Power of Sufism
Since I was a 13-year-old spending recesses in the schoolyard composing poems inspired by my turbulent home life, I’ve been passionate about storytelling. My career has centered on telling thousands...
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Adios, “Dios”– Part I
A pdf copy to read or print is here. Prologue: What Good is “God”? In a single week recently, a born-and-raised Mancunian (that is, a citizen of Manchester, England) who’d become “radicalized” by a...
View ArticleHILDEGARD OF BINGEN: A Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st...
In May, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI formally declared 12th century Benedictine nun Hildegard of Bingen a canonized saint, with the canonization ceremony scheduled for October. He regards her as one of...
View ArticleReimagining God: An Interview with Lloyd Geering (part 3 of 5) with Ryan Bell
Published on Feb 16, 2016 Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/lifeaft… This week I speak with Sir Lloyd Geering, New Zealand theologian and pioneering Christian post-theist. In 1967, Geering was...
View ArticleThe Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism
I like to think of Andrew Harvey as one of the intellectual bad boys of the modern spiritual path. Bless the man, he’s almost always a curve or two ahead of the pack. His latest book, The Hope: A...
View ArticleI BELIEVE IN THE GOD WHOM JESUS KNEW ©
I believe in the God whom Jesus knew. I love the God to whom Jesus prayed. I follow, but erringly, the God For whom John’s Gospel says He spoke and acted (John 14:10),x By whom and for whom he lived...
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Breaking Through: The Relationship Repair Game
The Relationship Repair Game is a collection of some of the most effective conflict resolution tools and relationship repair strategies used by Mediators, Counselors, Therapists, Social Workers,...
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Fear. (It’s ok to fear.)
Emails about fear I sent out an email a few weeks ago about fear. I wrote that I was scared. And I was when I wrote it. I am not in that sharp place of re-surfaced terror today. When I wrote, I wrote...
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Who’s Listening?
Andrew Forsthoefel on the gift of being deeply listened to during an eleven-month walk across the United States. Where would you find yourself if your need to be right and your addiction to certainty...
View Article“I Have Disarmed Myself” | The Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Someone once asked Inayat Khan – founder of the Sufi Order International (now The Inayati Order) and beloved Murshid (or Teacher) to many – “Are you a pessimist?” “No,” Pir-o-Murshid replied. “An...
View ArticleLiving a Life Worth Living
M. Scott Peck writes in the Road Less Traveled that there are four basic tools of discipline that allow a person to live a problem solving life rather than a life problem avoiding (which argues...
View ArticleNevertheless, love.
I laugh – first and often. One of my endearing characteristics is that I laugh loudly when I think things are funny. Consequently, I’m often the first person laughing. Not infrequently, I’m the only...
View ArticleReverence and Relevance – First Sunday of Advent
My own spiritual discipline has been to challenge myself each year with an expanded understanding of the traditionalholidays, while maintaining a sense of reverence, even sentimentality to a small...
View ArticleIf your holiday season feels to you to be more holidaze than holy days, ‘tis...
I’m sorry. Well, kinda. It is. Right? The thing that is keeping you from having “the most wonderful time of the year” is part brain chemistry and part you. The ridiculous lack of sunlight –...
View ArticleThe Darkness of the Womb: #MeToo and the Black Madonna
Hi there – I’ve taken over my husband Mike’s email for a special Advent reflection – drawn from the work of the Make Advent Great Again community. I hope you enjoy. Yet no matter how deeply I go down...
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