Do you have competing thoughts in your head like I do? “Who do you think you are, writing a blog? You are not a writer!” says one of mine. “You have insights to share – go for it!” says another. Colette Baron-Reid’s new book, “The Map: Finding Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life” can help you sort …
Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman has a new book out, Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are. And religious conservatives are not happy. I came across this article, “Meet Bart Ehrman: A One-Man God Fraud Squad”, which gives both sides of what Ehrman is all about. “Bart Ehrman has …
At first I wasn’t sure what to make of Deborah King’s new book “Be Your Own Shaman”. Coming from a fundamentalist Christian upbringing a word like “Shaman” made me wonder “is this some strange occult book?” And while I now have a much more liberal spiritual orientation my first impression was that King’s book could be on the fringe side. …
On Thursday night I was treated to a concert featuring two of my favorite artists of my teen years. Olivia Newton-John hosted an evening of song and memories of John Denver, as part of Denver’s posthumous induction into the newly formed Colorado Music Hall Of Fame. I was never much into music as a teen in the early 70’s. Until …
Only the strong survive! Survival of the fittest is the fundamental law of nature! Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing! We’ve all be raised with these ideas. Since Charles Darwin’s time assumptions like the above have been key to our understanding of the way the World works. The new documentary “I Am” challenges these long standing beliefs. The film’s …
I was never much into meditation. As I continued to pursue the spiritual path, though, I found the subject kept coming up from teachers and authors I respected. “A consistent meditation practice is the foundation of spiritual growth” was the message I’d get from one source or another. In the past I made attempts at meditation. In classes I have …
When I volunteered to review Marcelle Pick’s new book, “Are You Tired and Wired?” for Hay House I wasn’t sure if I was the right man for the job. Or if any man would be. Pick, an OB/GYN NP, the co-founder of the Women to Women clinic and author of The Core Balance Diet, writes primarily to a female audience …
As a person who has long struggled with weight issues I was especially interested in Dayna Macy’s new book “Ravenous – a food lover’s journey from obsession to freedom”. Ravenous is not your typical diet book. “… diets have always felt temporary to me,” Macy writes, “We talk about ‘going on’ them, and that means we go off them, too. …
“Appearing to be free is not the goal, being free is.” I heard that phrase in a sermon many years ago in a pentecostal Christian church. While I no longer believe much of the doctrine of that church, this phrase has stuck with me. I was reminded of it again last week. Sometimes I feel I need to show people …
Recently I came across Gina Welch’s insightful look into the evangelical church in her first book “In The Land Of Believers” If a movie were to be made of earlier years it might be titled “I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist”! Yes in my younger days I was a conservative Bible believer. Over the years my spiritual outlook transformed to a …