In one lesson with students we talk about “oaks” and “cedars”….in this arboreal lesson, Joni Eareckson Tada talks about a persevering evergreen – the Caribbean pines…… “Consider it pure joy, my brothers,...
One of the classes that our Titus 2 students take is Robert McGee’s “Search for Significance”. Sometimes one only sees the purpose, impact, and value of an experience, a season of life, or of life itself from the perspective of the finish line....
Where have you experienced a disconnection of soul in your life? How have you been brought back to center by an unexpected encounter with the sacred Other? How did your soul learn to breathe again?” I am not a diver, but living at the beautiful Gulf...
My daughter’s journey into writing as part of her master’s in fine arts degree program led to her asking me to share with her a bit about what it was like having three siblings. I could tell her about a family of six sharing one bathroom. I could tell...
I was reading the latest invitation to a women’s conference with a stellar billing of well known speakers/writers and it got me to thinking about how many of us are “groupies” of this or that Christian “guru”. Some people I know have done...
In counseling with clients who have used drugs about their journeys into the “un-real”, paranoid, even full-blown psychotic realm and in my own peak spiritual experiences (without the inducing influence of drugs), as described by Maslow, James, etal. of a...
Syncretism: the attempted reconciliation, amalgamation, or union of different or opposing principles, practices, parties, cultures, philosophies, or religions. “Syncretism is the mixing of Christianity with something else such that they become a different...
“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.” C. S. Lewis Yesiree, now isn’t that the truth? Sometimes an experience challenges the philosophy one has, based on prior experience, so radically that it...
Joni Eareckson Tada, who has known her share of pain- physical and emotional- shares this poem by Miss Margaret Clarkson, a woman who was bedridden for years with chronic pain: Lord Jesus, King of pain, Thy subject I; Thy right it is to reign: Oh, hear my cry, and...
As I studied Eddie Rasnake’s workbook on Knowing and Following the Will of God, I was struck by his observation that the Bible contains proclamations (“Thou shalt…”), prohibitions (“Thou shalt not…”), principles, and promises. Reflecting on this, I realized this...
