Let me end this series by noting again that people mean all sorts of things when they try to define spirituality. That goes for academic writing as well as personal identification. When they say, “I am spiritual” they mean anything from being emotional to the passionate practice of a religion. Considering that this is such […]
A missing element in spirituality today is community. Throughout the ages, many individuals have written about their spiritual thoughts and experiences, and almost all, in one way or another, were connected to a community of faith. Yes, there have been hermit monks and isolated mystics, but overwhelmingly, being spiritual meant participating with a certain kind […]
Although I’ve gone all over the place with this study, I’ve found only vague descriptions of spirituality. Let me humbly attempt my own. Traditionally, people have spoken about five areas of the human life: physical, mental, emotional, ethical, and spiritual. Although they overlapped, you could assign functions to each. The spiritual dealt with meaning and […]
I have written and put aside five essays for this post. Each time I finished one, someone brought up concerns I had not addressed. I finally decided to simply report what friends were telling me, as their questions seemed more important than my intellectual answers. They reveal we are in a period of great change. […]
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