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Meeting Walter Cronkite

July 19, 2009
Tags: Walter Cronkite, Senator Phil Hart, Nixon's Second State of the Union Address
Meeting Water Cronkite

It was late January 1970 when I met Walter Cronkite. I was taking an extra year of seminary in order to participate in a church and society training program on Capitol Hill. I was 24 and working in the office of Senator Philip Hart (D–Michigan). The occasion for our meeting was President  Read More 
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Sin

July 11, 2009
Tags: Sin, Alan Cohen, God
What is Sin?

The etymology of sin is “to miss the mark.” That is, a person misses the mark when that person is not the individual God made him/her to be. When our ego leads us to try to be more, or less, or something different than the person God made us to  Read More 
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Why Do We Suffer? Part Three: A Christian Perspective

July 1, 2009
Tags: Suffering, God, Christian, Soul, Grace, Transformation, John A. Sanford, passion, Spiritual Yearning, Pain, Redemption
In part one of this series, I wrote that suffering is a problem for Christianity, one that it doesn't address very well. Afterall, why would a God of love allow suffering?

The Rev. John A. Sanford, an Episcopal priest, my first clergy boss, and one of the men who most influenced my life, couldn't  Read More 
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Why Do We Suffer? Part Two: An Ancient Greek Perspective

June 30, 2009
Tags: Suffering, God, Christian, Greek, Aechylus, Soul, Grace, Furies, Zeus, Justice, fate, destiny, wisdom
And even in sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us
By the awful Grace of God.
- Aechylus (525-456 B.C.E.)

In part two of this discussion about suffering, I turn to the ancient Greek dramatist,  Read More 
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Why Do We Suffer? Part One: A Hebrew Perspective

June 13, 2009
Tags: Suffer, God, Christian, Hebrew, prophet, Second Isaiah, Soul
As a psychotherapist I frequently meet with people who are suffering. To them it seems as if the suffering will never end. At times it is more than they believe they can endure. It is not uncommon for them to ask, "Why do I suffer?"

Why a God of love allows suffering has been  Read More 
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What is the Devil?

May 6, 2009
Tags: Devil, evil, Maurice Nicoll, Inner Evolution, Psychological Development
I was rereading Maurice Nicoll's "The New Man" [Penguin Books:New York,1976] and came across this quotation.
"The devil represents all in a man that cannot evolve and all that does not wish to and hates every idea of inner evolution, all that wishes only to slander and misunderstand and have its own way."

I think of evil  Read More 
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The Secret of the Kingdom of God

May 2, 2009
Tags: Kingdom of God, Jesus, St. Mark's Gospel, Spiritual Quest
People on a spiritual quest often are unclear about what exactly it is they are seeking. In St. Mark's Gospel (4:10-12) Jesus offers us a clue. What the spiritual quest is about, Jesus says here, is finding what he calls "the kingdom of God."

Jesus continues by identifying what separates those who are able to  Read More 
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