Group Grope

A few years ago I was invited to participate in a particular kind of leadership training program. It wasn’t cheap, the cost to attend, but the invitation appealed to my ego, since those invited included some notable “movers and shakers” in the South...

Time Management

The second most important lesson I have learned in my life–I was a seminary student, around 1970, when I learned it. I was already over-extended–a full-time student with a full-time job, teaching at a local community college to support myself, my wife and...

Judging as Projecting

In the Sermon on the Mount in the Christian New Testament–specifically, the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7–Jesus says: “Judge not that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce, so will you also be judged, and the measure you give will be...

Sensuality and Spirituality

A patient/client (or client/patient) and I were having this conversation recently, and he suggested I post a blog on the subject. “That would shake some people up,” he said. Not that I’m particularly interested in “shaking anyone up.”...

“Pigeon-Holing”

“You might want to publish a blog on this subject,” a friend wrote recently. “I had attended a play concerning the Holocaust,” she continued. “And afterward, I was conversing with another woman I had known for years in our particular,...