Freedom and Unfreedom
One key to spiritual transformation is to learn on a day to day, minute by minute basis, to be aware of what St. Ignatius called...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jul 9, 2021
- 14 min
The Hardest Thing God Makes us Do
Forgiveness My son Elliott committed suicide when he was in high school. After his death, church people told me he was in hell because of...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
Good Sin?
The God whose very essence is love did not hardwire humans to fail. Holiness, connectedness with God, being conformed to the image of...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
The Divine Dance
God is a God of relationship, creativity, movement and love – Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer dancing – from the heart of God flows the...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
A CHILDHOOD DO-OVER
If you grew up in a loving supportive home connected to a healthy faith community that was a part of a strong spiritual tradition, I’m...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
A Third Way That’s Neither Liberal nor Fundamentalist
A Third Way That’s Neither Liberal nor Fundamentalist Whether Buddhist, Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, or Christian, adherents to religions tend...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Your New House
Imagine two houses for you to live in. They are both very adequate houses. If you’re a middle class American, the first house was built...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
He was only 25-years-old when, in 1927 Charles Lindbergh went from an obscure Minnesota farm boy turned mail pilot to the most famous...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
Nones
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
- Mar 10, 2021
- 4 min
Your Ancestors Might Hold Some Clues
It seems we humans carry the genetic markers of untold generations. The horrors of ancient genocides and brutal bloody battles, of...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 8, 2021
- 2 min
You are spiritual whether you know it or not
Most people in North America and northern Europe, as well as many in a secularize China and Japan, are not religious, if “religious” is...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 6, 2021
- 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
- Feb 4, 2021
- 1 min
People With Strong Faith Doubt Everything
Well, maybe not everything. (Although I remember a period when I questioned my own existence and wondered if all of “reality” was in fact...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
Start loving yourself the way you deserve to be loved
God is good, and, therefore, everything God creates is good – oceans, dolphins, mountains, elk, forests, redheaded woodpeckers, and you....
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Lawrence Taylor
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
My Story
I was well cared for, but grew up in an emotionally cold home – lower middle class – big city. As a kid, I struggled with severe anxiety...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Untying the threads that bind
Everyone who influences us, and every event that directly affects us, is like a thread. Those threads weave together into the tapestry...
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