Believe it or not, there are people running around in this country who love to question the validity of ministries, most often in the independent Catholic and Anglican world, not on the basis of the ministry they do but rather by trying to pick apart the so-called “validity” of their ordination, the ritual used, or…
When we respond in an unhealthy manner, we quite simply need to fix it before we can move on. If you don’t, you will repeat that mistake over and over again while blaming everyone but yourself and wondering how all this bad stuff can happen to such a nice person. Here’s your answer: it keeps…
We all know people who are perpetually restless. Many of them are convinced if they just solved some sort of magic puzzle, found the right job, or the right partner, or lived in the right city that everything would be fine. Then they move, or change jobs, or get a new partner, and nothing changes.…
Human life is filled with both the good and the bad. Despite this, there seems to be some sort of voluntary delusion that is part of human nature, causing us to believe that bad things shouldn’t happen to us. While most of us would never admit it, we can cope with other people’s tragedy without…
I have a lot of friends who are part of what I call “The Happy-Happy, Joy-Joy” movement, a movement that transcends spiritual and religious traditions in many ways, although some spiritualities are centered entirely on Happy-Happy Joy-Joy (HHJJ). I first experienced HHJJ in evangelical Christianity of the Televangelist bent. I still remember watching PTL, Jim…
