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One of the saddest things I’ve seen as a pastor, chaplain, counselor, and spiritual director is grown-up children who reject, rebuff,...
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UNTANGLED SPIRIT IDEAS
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Lawrence Taylor
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
Don't Listen to Those Who Condemn You
Many sins are quiet and respectable, and therefore go unnoticed in our culture. How many sermons have you heard on gluttony or the evils...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 14
- 5 min
What is Love?
Asked to define love, the young man replied, “Love is a feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you’ve never felt before.” Everyone...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 11
- 3 min
Healers of the Soul
I meet regularly with a spiritual director and a psychologist for my own growth. In my experience, everyone can benefit from spiritual...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Questions
Questions Often Mask Deeper Questions Quite regularly, congregants will approach a pastor after the worship service and ask generalized...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 8
- 2 min
It Depends
We far too often talk past each other. In order to understand one another, it’s imperative we define terms. Two different people both...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Being Fully Present
To be fully present in each moment opens up a whole new glorious universe. An advantage of having a scientist father was learning the...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 24
- 4 min
How Deep Will You God With God?
How deeply will I allow the Spirit of God to penetrate my being? Spiritual direction involves spiritual formation that goes well beyond...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 23
- 3 min
I Lost a Friend
I had a friend named Zach (not his real name) whom I had known for over 20 years. He came to me for pastoral care. For most of this past...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Searching for the True Self
He sailed from island to island Never setting ashore, nor Dropping anchor in spite of Inviting coves of clear water, Reefs teeming with...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 17
- 2 min
Deconstructing, Reconstructing, or Abandoning Faith
I regularly cross paths with people who were once evangelical and/or fundamentalist Christians but now identify as atheists or agnostics....
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 9
- 4 min
I AM DR. JEKYLL. I AM MR. HYDE. SO ARE YOU.
The 1866 Gothic novella, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was an immediate success. He...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Damage
Tectonic plates slip Cement liquifies Buildings implode Thousands perish Tens of thousands Refugees, cold, weary, hungry Dazed, wandering...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 2
- 3 min
Therapeutic Relationships
They are different, however. · Chaplains are seminary trained, board certified, ordained or endorsed, and specially educated in...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 26
- 1 min
Churches that Wound People
I’m not anti-church Churches have done much good over the centuries – Invented hospitals, nursing homes, hospice, orphanages promoting...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 25
- 3 min
Family Secrets
“The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.” – C.G. Jung Family secrets are...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 24
- 3 min
The Human Ego
Enlightenment influenced modernity deifies the mob. While the despot, the dictator, and the king identify themselves with the state,...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 17
- 1 min
Grief
Grief waves not in sets, crosscurrents, rip tides, slapping, gasping not a lake shore gentle lapping, nor the predictable surfable sets,...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 15
- 1 min
Needs and Wants
A radical gulf lies between what the ego is convinced it needs and what the soul truly needs. The ego is convinced it needs to be loved....
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 12
- 5 min
Healing the Child Within
Being Reparented by Abba We all have a wounded little child within. We are not wounded beyond repair, but we are wounded nonetheless....
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