Category: spirituality

Medicalizing human behavior

June 9, 2006 | No comments yet

Claude Lewis got it right in a column he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He began, “It may be hard to recall, but once there was a time when people took responsibility for their behavior, without recourse to the psychiatric

Where’s your church?

June 3, 2006 | 3 comments

Where do you find church? One thinker told me recently that he discovered church in the towering trees, in the shimmering lakes, in the happy songs of birds and in the squishy turf he felt under his shoes as he

Live in the now

May 28, 2006 | 3 comments

Do you ever worry about your future? How to pay the bills, getting along with another, staying healthy, finding a date, receiving a promotion, aging, and other concerns often top the lists of people who over-worry. I’d like to suggest

No resistance to healing

May 11, 2006 | 2 comments

“I’m resisting this spiritual healing from happening,” a man struggling for relief from suffering complained. I replied, “If Bill Gates offered you one billion dollars, with no strings attached, free for your taking, would you resist accepting his gift?” He

American healthcare failing

May 3, 2006 | 1 comment

Americans are sicker than the British despite twice the spending on healthcare in the USA as in Britain, a newly published study claims. “Why isn’t the richest country in the world the healthiest country in the world?” study co-author Dr.