128 results returned for search: "" category ("Opinion Writer" AND "Opinion") author Philip Brownell
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 looked up to the television monitor, and CNN told me that Joan Rivers had died. I didn’t know ...
DATE: Sep 16, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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, and so God punished Him in our place. God is just (in applying the penalty for sin to Jesus)...
DATE: Sep 02, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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 Leadership and Professional Advancement at Duquesne University.
I have been coaching peopl...
DATE: Aug 26, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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 not recall seeing so many cars before. Of course, it had been a while since I last visited...
DATE: Aug 19, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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 groups (http://www.gisc.org/practitioners/programs/RootsVIConference.php).
It is a conference...
DATE: Aug 12, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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 started when I was still in my doctoral programme. That was when the internet was still in diap...
DATE: Aug 05, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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, but the same idea can be found in the Bible. This world, and everything associated with i...
DATE: Jul 29, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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 routinely find myself praying as the plane is about to turn to align on the runway and as ...
DATE: Jul 22, 2014
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Philip Brownell
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 looks beautiful, but I mean this in more ways than one.
First, one of my former professors ma...
DATE: Jul 15, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
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 hospital of any repute in all of China. My wife and I would go to a small Parisian Café just ...
DATE: Jul 08, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell