If you want your circumstances to change, you are going to have to take the first step and change how you relate and react to what is happening. If you are not willing to do that, the only one you have to blame is yourself. Nothing can change if everything stays the same.
Honesty is Such a Lonely Word
Billy Joel was right, not only about love but also about spiritual and religious circles - though he may not have had that in mind when he wrote his song. There is a practice that I have seen both in Newage* circles and in Evangelical circles of blatant dishonesty about the ideas and even the…
Trauma and A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far is a World War II movie about an Allied offensive that tried, as the title implies, to go a bit too far. Released in 1977, I loved this movie - but I probably wasn't aware of all of the reasons I loved it. Elliott Gould was definitely not one of the…
There are no Gurus
The fascination that has grown in the west over the past several decades with eastern spirituality has become problematic, especially regarding gurus. As spiritual teachers and so-called gurus have moved from east to west, one thing that has become apparent is that they have a propensity toward sexual misconduct with their students. This in turn…
Discarding What’s Not True
Most of us, I would even venture to say all of us, have been told things about ourselves that are not true. Sometimes we were told these things due to an honest mistake. Other times people wanted to manipulate us or to get their way. Some of us have encountered evil personified, a person wanting…
Craig Bergland 