Recently I came back from a training in the States. I was sitting in the Newark airport waiting for my connecting flight from Pittsburgh back to Bermuda. I look...
Recently I came back from a training in the States. I was si...
Very often I hear pastors preach about how people who believe in Christ have eternal life. It’s based on the belief that Jesus took the penalty for our sins, an...
Very often I hear pastors preach about how people who believ...
On the first weekend in September I will be involved in the first meeting for a group of people taking the certification in coaching through the Department of L...
On the first weekend in September I will be involved in the ...
I was running late. Just a little late. The church service had started already as I pulled into the parking area, and it looked to be totally full. I could n...
I was running late. Just a little late. The church service...
In October I am supposed to be going to Belfast, Northern Ireland to participate in a small, but intensely intimate group focused on working with people in grou...
In October I am supposed to be going to Belfast, Northern Ir...
In the next two weeks I will be helping to edit an anthology of articles that appeared over the course of about ten or 11 years in an electronic journal I start...
In the next two weeks I will be helping to edit an anthology...
George Harrison wrote a song about all things passing away. All things must pass away, he said. His thought came from his involvement with Eastern spirituality,...
George Harrison wrote a song about all things passing away. ...
Every time I fly I have a ritual with regards to take off and landing. Supposedly, the most dangerous times for air flight are the take off and landings. So, I ...
Every time I fly I have a ritual with regards to take off an...
My book, Spiritual Competency in Psychotherapy, just came out. The publisher (Springer Publishing in New York) sent me four copies of it.
It’s beautiful. It loo...
My book, Spiritual Competency in Psychotherapy, just came ou...
I just returned from China. We stayed in a hotel at Nanjing University, in the city of Nanjing. Right next door to that university is the largest children’s hos...
I just returned from China. We stayed in a hotel at Nanjing ...
I am leaving in a few hours to fly to Boston. Tomorrow I’ll fly from Boston to Seoul, a few days after that I will fly to Hong Kong, and then a few more days af...
I am leaving in a few hours to fly to Boston. Tomorrow I’ll ...
Imagine that you decide to go out for dinner, and so you pull up in your car on Front Street, park it, and get out. You walk across to Port O’ Call, and you sit...
Imagine that you decide to go out for dinner, and so you pul...
Sometimes I wonder if people are interested in making things better or if they are just playing to the street for political gain. Recently, in the United States...
Sometimes I wonder if people are interested in making things...
In my practice of psychotherapy I’ve noticed that change often takes a long time to develop, but then it seems to happen suddenly.
I have also noticed that chan...
In my practice of psychotherapy I’ve noticed that change oft...
This last Sunday was Easter. ‘The Ten Commandments’ were on television again. I used to enjoy watching that movie, and then I began to wonder why they were show...
This last Sunday was Easter. ‘The Ten Commandments’ were on ...
This last Sunday was Easter. ‘The Ten Commandments’ were on television again. I used to enjoy watching that movie, and then I began to wonder why they were show...
This last Sunday was Easter. ‘The Ten Commandments’ were on ...
Eternity and Infinity. People often think these are two words for the same thing, but they are not. It seems like it though, doesn’t it? They’re both big.
Peopl...
Eternity and Infinity. People often think these are two word...
These days it seems everyone has a smart phone. Just go sit in a public place and see how many people are looking down into their hands.
There is a camera in ea...
These days it seems everyone has a smart phone. Just go sit ...
For months I have been discussing with colleagues at an institute to which I belong in New York City about our mutual web site. I had been telling them that ins...
For months I have been discussing with colleagues at an inst...
There are all kinds of relationships. If you interact with a person over time, you have a relationship.
People have work relationships. People have platonic rel...
There are all kinds of relationships. If you interact with a...
I do not believe in compartments in life. A person is a whole being, and each person is part of the overall flux of life. We are all connected and nothing uncon...
I do not believe in compartments in life. A person is a whol...
Recently I was in New York City to make a presentation to some psychotherapists about research and evidence-based practice. My wife, Linda, was with me, and we ...
Recently I was in New York City to make a presentation to so...
Sometimes the more you study something, the less you think you really know about it.
Here I am, a psychologist, and you’d think I would have figured out by now...
Sometimes the more you study something, the less you think y...
My wife hates to see me write. Actually, she knows I am supposed to be writing, but she hates to see what it’s like for me to write. Coming up with the ideas fo...
My wife hates to see me write. Actually, she knows I am supp...
Tex Beneke, singing with the Glenn Miller orchestra, had a song about his gal in Kalamazoo — zoo — zoo. My mother and father loved Glenn Miller. When my dad was...
Tex Beneke, singing with the Glenn Miller orchestra, had a s...
It is Christmas time again. I’ve been seeing “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby and George Clooney’s mother (Rosemary) on the television. Bill O’Reilly is carry...
It is Christmas time again. I’ve been seeing “White Christma...
Spiritual abuse takes place when a leader uses his or her position to control or dominate another person, often running over their feelings and opinions and dis...
Spiritual abuse takes place when a leader uses his or her po...
Imagine that on two successive weekends you attend two different churches.
At church A you arrive and walk up the steps toward two large, wooden doors stained...
Imagine that on two successive weekends you attend two diffe...
A process is a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a specific end. Consider, for example, the behaviour of ants in a colony. Even the apparent ...
A process is a series of actions or steps taken in order to ...
I have noticed that this year (perhaps it’s been happening in previous years, but I just noticed it this time around the sun) Christmas advertisements and refer...
I have noticed that this year (perhaps it’s been happening i...
