Acharya Pema Chödrön is principal teacher for Gampo Abbey, a Western Buddhist Monastery in the Shambhala Tradition, located in Nova Scotia, Canada. This excerpt is from Awakening Loving-Kindness , pp.74-77. It’s said in the teachings that if you hold…
Stephan Finlan is pastor of Mathewson Street United Methodist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He has taught theology at Fordham, Drew, Seton Hall, and Durham Universities. He is author of The Apostle Paul and the Pauline Tradition (2008), Options on…
In a comment responding to our April 27 th post, “On discernment,” guest blogger Clem Gerdelmann referred to French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Marie Émile Lacan. Here is Friend Clem’s further reflection on Lacan. In truth, Jacques…
An excerpt from Chapter Five of Stephen Jay Gould’s Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (1987). “We often try to cram our complex world into the confines of what human reason can grasp, by…
The sociologist of religious transmission from University of Southern California, Vern Bengston, makes an unfamiliar argument about the role of grandparents in the inter-generational transmission of spirituality and religion. Bengtson is the founder of the Longitudinal Study of…