He dared to wrestle with God
Originally posted on The Will to be Onesself:
Jacob was renamed Israel, meaning wrestled with God. That particular passage has always left me wondering. I suppose I was confused by…
Category Archives: Psychology & Theology
Christian in the eye of the Beholder
Jesus doesn’t say that we will know we are his disciples by our love, but that OTHERS will know by our love. Our neighbors decide the quality of our Christianity- not by our bible knowledge, church attendance, sinlessness, etc…
Our culture often confuses greatness with “greater than”
Originally posted on The Will to be Onesself:
Morrie Schwartz, the subject of the book Tuesdays with Morrie, asked an important question when a group of college students began to…
God’s Feng Shui: Made for Nature
Imagine that you were able to create a work of art that when people looked at it they recovered from surgery more quickly.
Do I care how big my Heavenly mansion is?
I remember years ago hearing sermons about storing up Heavenly treasure and finding it very motivational, particularly when my own earthly treasures were pretty slim. Today, as a psychotherapist, I […]
Child-like Awe and Wonder
This is my final installment inspired by my 8 month old, Max (at least for now). I’ve always been a bit of a thinker and ponderer. I’m often inspired by […]
The Concept of Home
So, Tsh Oxenreider on her site The Art of Simple, put out an invitation to share where we feel most at home in honor of her upcoming book. I decided to take her up on the challenge. But as I thought about the question and mused on the idea of home I realized that maybe some of the places I feel most at home aren’t physical places at all.
The Art of Joy: Continued lessons from my son
It may be that He has the eternal appetite for infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
Copernicus Again: Why the Christian brain fights science
Why does the Christian community again find itself at war with science, living by candle light so unnecessarily? Much like our demand that the earth was the center of the […]
Freedom in Love: Lessons from my son
I was on the subway in DC the other day and there was what appeared to be a homeless person standing across from me. The main reason I drew this […]
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