I like the Enneagram. I’ve written a little bit about it before here, and I’ve offered several workshops on it. Also, I’ve written about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) here. I’ve spent several years with both tools, reading and having endless conversations on their content, context, and utility. I’d like to start sharing some insights Read More …
Mindfulness. That’s a great word, isn’t it? I was recently giving a presentation on Mindfulness to the Catechumenate program at the University of the South. After a brief introduction, we broke up into small groups, and each group went through the basic method that I’ve written about here and in my book, Just Begin. In Read More …
Here is the fifth and final installment in my series on a case study of prayer beads as used (and interpreted) in multiple religious contexts. If you missed earlier installments, you can begin with the first section here. Summing Up Following this moment of consideration, let’s briefly revisit the thrust of this series. The spiritual practice Read More …
Here is the fourth installment in my series on a case study of prayer beads as used (and interpreted) in multiple religious contexts. If you missed earlier installments, you can begin with the first section here. General Discussion The foregoing history and sociology of the transmission of prayer beads from (1) one religion to another Read More …
Here is the third installment in my series on a case study of prayer beads as used (and interpreted) in multiple religious contexts. If you missed earlier installments, you can begin with the first section here. Case Study of Intra-Religious Borrowing Five years ago, I examined the process of spiritual borrowing in three emergent Read More …
Here is the second installment in my series on a case study of prayer beads as used (and interpreted) in multiple religious contexts. If you missed the first installment, you can still read it here. Borrowing Background among Religions Whenever a chronological look at a subject is desired, it is always best, though Read More …
Since I have talked previously about Transpersonal Sociology, I thought it might be interesting to give a specific example of what I mean. While I have published case studies on other practices previously, I have not published much on prayer beads. So, this post is the first of several parts of an article on that spiritual Read More …
We hear a lot about spectrums (spectra?) these days? There is the gender spectrum, the sexuality spectrum, the color spectrum (which looked like this when I was a kid). My son and I both have intimate, personal experience with the autism spectrum (please pray for my poor wife). It seems that there is a spectrum Read More …
Definitions are important – well, at least, I think so. My wife often accuses me of coming up with my own precise definitions and then expecting others to abide by them. You know what I say to that? I say, “What do you mean by precise and expecting?” Well, all kidding aside, there are a Read More …
No, not that Thomas More. As a change of pace, I thought that I would offer a few comments about a recent book. In A Religion of One’s Own, Thomas Moore speaks to the needs of spirituality within our very secularized world — and also about the need of secularity in our overly ossified religious Read More …
