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Published Articles


Creation Spirituality magazine

As Above, So Below

Bede Griffiths: Holy Man for Our Time

Bear Each Others' Burdens

Courage for Creative Theology

Cyberspace and the Dream of Teilhard de Chardin

Each in Their Own Tongue

Editorial: Unspotted by the World

Editorial: Winter Negativa

An End to Suffering

God the Heretic

The God That Stands By

Hindu Myth and Paradigm Shift

Morality and Work

More Than Men

Ritual: Religion in Action

The Sacrificed God

There is No Salvation (Apart from the Body)

Uncovering the Creation Spirituality Tradition: Chenu and Fox

Who Do You Trust? The Issue of Spiritual Authority

 

Pacific Church News 

Birthing the Word with Novelist Laurie King

A Changeable Feast, pt. 1: Thanksgiving and Eschatalogical Threads

A Changeable Feast, pt. 2: Incarnational, Metabolist, and Divinization Threads

A Changeable Feast, pt. 3: Mystery and Sacrifice Threads

A Changeable Feast, pt. 4: Realist, Real Presence, and Spiritualist Threads

Convention to Vote on Called to Common Mission

The DaVinci Code: Fact and Fiction (For a longer, unpublished version of this article, click here.)

Easter: Peace Be With You

Editorial: Generation X

Editorial: The Shape of Things to Come

Editorial: "You Like Us! You Really Like Us!"

Editorial: Welcome to the New PCN!

Editorial: Words Are Dangerous Things

Hands-On Ministry: Christ Church, Sausalito

Review: Episcopal Liturgical Appointment Calendar

Review: Saved! (Movie)

Screen Jesuses We Have Loved

Seasons: Peter Waldo

Singing At The Threshold of Life

Spiritual Direction: A Ministry for Everyone

Tradition: James I of England

Writing Creatively for Congregations

 

Presence: The Journal of Spiritual Directors International

Three Modes of Interfaith Spiritual Direction

Companioning People with Dementia (with Rita Hansen and Robert B. Williams)

Focus: Books As Spiritual Directors

Focus: Both/And Religion

Focus: Chirps and Other Creative Distractions

Focus: Conversion

Focus: Creativity and the Spirit

Focus: Diserning the Connections

Focus: The God Under Our Noses

Focus: God's Mysterious Will

Focus: Doing the Hard Things

Focus: Learnings

Focus: The Body Issue

Focus: The Dance of Inner and Outer

Focus: The Difficult Issue

Focus: Now the Green Blade Riseth

Focus: Presence--Spiritual Direction on a Grand Scale

Focus: Returning

Focus: September 11: When the Rug Was Pulled Out from Under Us

The Gnostic Generation: Understanding and Ministering to Generation X

Reflection: The Way of Non-Direction: Insights on Spiritual Direction from the Tao Te Ching

The Year 2000 "Best of the Web" for Spiritual Direction (with Lyle Kesecker-Dotson)

Three Modes of Interfaith Spiritual Direction to see a pdf version, click here

 

The Way

Homecoming: Helping Xers Move from Alienation to Conversion

 

The Writer

Review: Handy AlphaSmart 3000 is the "Anti-Laptop"

 

Unpublished Articles


Embracing Celibacy, Chastity, and Virginity

The Way of the Twin: Rediscovering a Uniquely Jewish School of Buddhism

Generation X: Rebels without Applause  

Magic: Mysticism or Manipulation?

 

Lectures


The Apocalypse in Rock

Christian Heresies in the East

A History of Eucharistic Re-mythologization

 

Graduate Essays


An Epiphany

Buddhism and the 12-Step Process: An End to Suffering

The Catuskoti and the Limits of Language and Logic

A Comparison of Vaisnavism and Saivism

Considering the Gnostic Sacraments

Differences and Similarities Between Religious Forms in the Vedic Tradition and Those in the Later Hindu Tradition

Dissertation: Crisis & Communion, the Remythologization of the Eucharist

Fundamentalism: Making Peace with the Prophets of Doom

False Self and Original Nature: Reflections from Suzuki and Merton

Hegel, Whitehead, & Chardin: Trailblazers of a New Cosmology

In Comparison: Hsin Tzu and Augustine of Hippo

James Fowler's Stages of Faith in Profile

Kazantzakis' Saviors of God as Post-Modern Scripture

Liturgy in the Creation-Centered Parish

The Origins of Christian Guilt

Process Thought and the Hopi Universe

A Psychological Profile of John the Apostle

A Short Treatment on Paradox in the Upanishads

Strange Bedfellows: Hinduism and Judaic Mysticism in Comparison

Tantra and Gnosticism: Questions and Observations

Taoism as an Earth-based Religion

Taoism: Thoughts on "Wu-wei"

That Naughty Bishop of Hippo: Disfunctional Theological Innovations of St. Augustine

Teilhard de Chardin and the Formation of the Noosphere

Two Eyes, One Object: A Comparison of Dieties as Found in the Bhagavad-Gita and the Poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi

 

 

College Essays


The Apocrypha

Creation: A Discussion of Allegedly Conflicting Accounts

An Explication of William Blake's "The Garden of Love"

The Didache (Teaching of the Apostles), a Translation from the Greek and Explication

Evidence of Manic Depressive Disorder In Milton's L'Allegro and Ii Penseroso

A Layman's Bible Study on Galatians

Marchette Chute: One Thing I Have Agin' Thee

Milton's Preposterous Proposals in "on Education"

Progressive Revelation in John Milton's Lycidas

Psalm Fifty-One: A Translation from the Septuagint and Explication

Sacraments for the New Age: The Mechanics of Salvation in the Works of Charles Williams

Severe Mercy in King Lear: Christianity Through Image and Story

A Short Comparison of the Didache with the Canonical Record

The Significance Of The Apocrypha

A Survey of "The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle" by Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

Junior College Essays


A Clockword Conformity

Does Evil Exist?

Gauging the Projected Image

Is Mormonism a Cult?

The Joy of Reading

The Need for Fantasy

On The Color Purple by Alice Walker

To Be Or Not To Be B.A.

 

High School Essays


The Development of the English Bible

Survival Problems Nanook Faced that We Don't and Vice Versa