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29Apr2017
Christian Privilege
We are living in a time where a political and social movement is taking place around the issue of privilege.
Certain voices are making it acutely aware of how some people in our society have privilege and how others do not. There is also a call for those who are privileged to give up their privilege for the sake of those who aren't. This call in many ways is delivered in the form of an entitled demand that if this is not done then society will not experience peace.
In this passage we see Jesus dealing with the issue of privilege as well and answers the question of how Christians should approach the whole issue of privilege.
It begins with a discussion about the payment of a tax.
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27Apr2017
Political Correctness Does It Help or Hurt?
Political Correctness Does It Help or Hurt?
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It is no secret that we live in an age of political correctness. Yet paradoxically, the more politically correct our culture becomes the more approval seeking occurs and the more we as a culture, project an incongruence in our daily lives as well as live under the tyranny of legalism. -
13Aug2015
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31May2015
The Togetherness Force
What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us....Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. (1 John 1: 3 & 4 NET)
It seems to me that instead of the experience of joy when people come together, the experience of friction, exposure, and difficulties occur. Murray Bowen, one of the fathers of Family Therapy in describing the family interaction process describes this as the togetherness force. In most families this force is usually organized around anxiety and it is often brought to bare on family members in order to maintain compliance and to minimize the anxiety of a person or persons in a family system. This force, though at times very powerful, when mixed with an ability for the family to accept individual self expression can be a way that members in the family learn to grow and develop personally.read more -
31May2015
The Intersection of Psychology and Religion
The following is an attempt to articulate some of my thoughts on how two aspects of the Christian view of Redemption, otherwise known as Justification and Sanctification, intersect with the process of the application of therapeutic intervention and the development of psychological health.
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