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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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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 7
- 3 min
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) was previously called multiple personality disorder. It was portrayed in the 1973 book and film,...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 7
- 4 min
God, Where Are You?
Those Long Seasons of Divine Absence Lawrence R. Taylor Long ago, a psalmist wrote that weeping or mourning may linger for a night, “but...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 7
- 2 min
You May Not Be Religious, but I'll Bet You're Spiritual
When incoming patients register at hospitals, they are asked to identify a religious preference. The majority self-identify as either...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 4
- 5 min
What are personality disorders?
Personality disorders are ways of describing dysfunctional personalities. They are persistent, life-long ways of behaving that are...
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