I think of recovery from religion like peeling layers off of an onion. Dissenting intellectually from teachings or doctrines you learned as an adult is like peeling off one of the outer layers. But if you keep going, you find scripts that got laid down earlier—attitudes, emotional conditioning, ideas you were taught before you had the […]
Bell Hooks on The Real
Usually when I critique a movie lots of folks like, they tell me, ‘It was just showing the way things are. It was real.’ And they do not want to hear it when I make the point that giving audiences what is real is precisely what movies do not do. They give the re-imagined, reinvented […]
Iyanla Vanzant | Spiritual Abuse
Sobering: “So why have you sold her down the river for a hat and a parking space?”
Kevin Fury on Choice Points
Kevin Fury on Choice Points: “The Best Mistake I Ever Made“ Every aspect of my life can be traced back to that one moment when I made a snap decision in answering the question ‘Are you sure you want _us_ to write your recommendations?’ In the short term I thought I gave the worst possible […]
Seasonal Thoughts
Some friends have participated in religious liturgies this month, and with those friends I’ve been reflecting on the multitude of stories that we recount around Passover and Easter. There are a world of possible insights to draw from them — including the following. Last Sunday, Palm Sunday, Rabbi David Ingber explored the meaning of freedom for […]
