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Trusting Your Instincts
Have you ever had an experience that didn’t seem out of the ordinary when it happened, but after you had the chance to reflect on it you realized that everything was not as it seemed in real-time?...
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Thinning the Herd
I’ve been at work the last few weeks thinning the herd of emails that come into my email box on a daily basis. The ones I am focusing on most are the ones that attempt to create a false sense of...
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A Turd by any Other Name
It seems to be really popular these days in certain trendy spiritual circles to be incessantly cheery, positive, upbeat, thankful, joy-filled, optimistic, have a spring in your step, look at the glass...
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The Double Edged Sword of Patriotism
As I listened to President Obama’s victory speech Wednesday morning – I confess, I didn’t make it long enough to listen to it live – I was struck by two things he said that I am rather ambivalent...
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Willfull Stupidity
There is a faction within Christian fundamentalism that is quite simply unwilling to consider the findings of science, particular regarding things like climate change, the age of the earth, and...
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Not Everything Works Out
Part of life is learning that not everything goes our way and some things just don’t work out. Among other things, spiritual practice helps us to cope with that reality. Thinking we can change that...
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Opinion vs. Fact
I have written about this before, but given that the geniuses in Texas want to start teaching everything anybody holds to be true as a fact in schools – including the belief that Moses was one of the...
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Reality
Much of pop spirituality would have us believe that if we only wish it were otherwise, our life circumstances would be different – but denial has never been much of a spirituality. We are better served...
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Letting Go
I see a lot of posts on social media that seem to reflect a belief that the purpose of religion is to change the way things in life turn out. People seem to believe that if they say the right prayers...
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