This book can be understood as autobiographical theology, my attempt, over several decades, to make sense out of my long and intense practice of prayer and meditation in several different religious groups. Having eventually been drawn to the university study of interpersonal communication and human development, I began to see prayer as a slowly…[Read more]

(Opening paragraphs, 1980 text) When Martin Luther King decided to raise his voice in opposition to the war in Vietnam,many of his critics told him he ought to stick to domestic issues. He should concentrate on securing civil rights of Blacks in the South, and leave foreign policy to the professionals who knew best. But King decided to oppose the…[Read more]

This article is an exploration of present-tense, first-person reverence for life as a conscious spiritual path. While promising to hold certain beliefs, or to embody certain virtues, for the rest of one’s life, may be done with the best of intentions, my experience has been that we are not entirely in control of the persons we may become in the…[Read more]