This semester I’m teaching a course on Spiritual Formation. Most of the students are theology majors interested in youth ministry or worship arts, and it’s
Last summer, the president of my seminary asked me to lead a team of staff, faculty, and board members tasked with the lofty goal of
Maybe it’s this long winter intersecting with Lent. Maybe it’s just the personal season I’m in. Or maybe it’s the combination of bitter cold and lingering
Then I said, “That’s why I can’t call myself a human being anymore!” The conversation had been about impoverished parents selling their children into the
Over the weekend I heard Dr. Andrew Newberg speak; he’s a neuroscientist who researches the effects of religious experience on our brains. Newberg coined the
by Gregory Anderson Love The symbols of the world’s religions suggest beauty, light, and hope. A six-pointed star. The Buddha, sitting in serene enlightenment, eyes
“I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.” — Ezekiel 11:19 Hardness has advantages. I think of
I have been accustomed to call this book, I think not inappropriately, “An Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul”; for there is not an
Happy Lunar New Year! You may also know this day as Chinese New Year, or—especially if you are Chinese—simply, New Year. But in fact, various
