After I had spent my time in the Navy, and after I had been a neuropsychiatric technician in the Navy, I went home to Sacramento, California. Sacramento is a valley town. For a long time it was more o...
In psychotherapy, various theoretical systems compete for followers. These systems are sometimes referred to as paradigms, orientations, or perspectives, but they are still systems. I think of them as...
I don’t know how old Paul of Tarsus was when he died. No one knows that for sure. I suspect he was an older man, because he describes many years and various turns of growth along the way of what sound...
In the last half of the 20th century the evangelical church was on the rise globally. Reacting to the idea that Bible-believing Christians were “fundamentalists”, which had become a bad name, this gro...
I know. The big tenth anniversary observance of 9/11 has come and gone. The media was full of it, and perhaps you saw a few people who, themselves, seemed “full of it”. Perhaps you’ve had your fill of...
I read in the paper last week about the case of a man who has had psychological disorders of one kind or another from an early age, and who was convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl. It remind...
I wrote another book. I say “another” because I had one published in 2010. This new one had been in the works and under contract for over a year, but I had writer's block with it for almost the entire...
When people grow up they re-examine the beliefs and values they had as children. That just seems normal, doesn’t it? It’s commonplace. Nothing astounding in that.
Yet, when you watch someone close to...
Sometimes you can look back and say to yourself, “That was another world.” Indeed, some things have changed so much, a person must shake his or her head. A memory seems to emanate from not just anothe...
Have you ever heard someone say something like, “He was having the time of his life?” The time of his life. What an odd group of words. What is the TIME of a person's life?
When you are going along, d...
