Volume 1 Number 30 |
The Editor's Desk: | August 1 - August 7, 2010 |
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Our mission is to present spiritual responses to some of the greatest challenges that life has to offer: events like death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, serious accident or illness, crises of identity, recovery from addiction, loss of job or career, retirement, and other life-altering events. |
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Butch Hovis considers the Dark Night of John of the Cross as the snow continues in southern Delaware. A colleague in a pastoral care training program once reminded the group that there is "a gift in everything". Is "bad" weather an inconvenience or is it an opportunity to get to know ourselves better? [Continue]
Did you ever have one of those days when every drawer you opened, every stack of papers you came across, every shelf in every closet, every cabinet and every room in your house was calling out for your immediate attention? The other day I found myself straightening, organizing, cleaning, purging, and rearranging everything that I set my eyes on. [Continue]
A new installment arrives this week from Rev. Jack Abel on navigating the middle stages of personal change. The recovery movement has lessons for us about this middle passage, including a process of inventory and counsel that brings us to deeper understanding of the change we seek. [Continue]
When you have prostate cancer surgery (aka, a radical prostatectomy) accompanied by a gamut of physical or emotional traumas, it’s crucial to develop or retain an “attitude of gratitude.” This spiritual disposition can help us cope more effectively with various crises, large and small. We’d do well to manifest our gratitude more than [Continue]
It is my dream to share this dynamic process of transcendence and co-creation not just for individual transformation but to gather the multitudes in shifting the current reality on the planet by altering the collective consciousness. [Continue]
There are many ways to deal with the onset of emotional pain. Some approaches are more effective than others. There's one approach that has all the advantages and few of the drawbacks: write it out. [Continue]
Butch Hovis moves on in his examination of the Dark Night of Saint John of the Cross viewed from perspectives including the Spanish Mystics as well as more recent writers and personal experiences, not all of which might be considered “mystical.“ [Continue]
