It’s a dangerous world. Trust God?
We know that ours is a dangerous world; but we are also told to trust God. How does this knowledge fit together with this advice?
Spiritual Experience
Goodie we get to serve in a crisis
Serving in a crisis. Does the idea make you tense? Joyous? My first YouTube video shows the recipe. Hear responses to questions: What crises? How can we address multiple crises simultaneously?
Love and friendship
A friend, a true friend, a good friend—what a treasure! Time together is sweet. Time apart is sustained by a relationship that doesn’t need to be continually focused on. A marriage can enjoy such friendship. Friendship can pervade a group.
On ramps to the love highway
We need on ramps to love. Sometimes love is flowing and sometimes not. We find some people hard to love. . . .
From emotion through value to worship
From sweets to saints, various attractions fill the mind. Diverse values activate emotional responses that are sometimes disordered. A lesson from psychology helps us order our value-responses gloriously. . . .
Finding new frontiers in spiritual experience
For the experiential component of my world religions classes, the first project was to get in touch with “your wonderfulness within.” I made it clear that this is better known as the spirit of God within, and has different names and interpretations in various religions and secular psychologies. For the students, the simplest and most … Read more