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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


Philosophy Now

The New Athiests

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The DaVinci Code: Fact and Fiction (For a longer, unpublished version of this article, click here.)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
Generational Ministry: Spiritual Guidance for the Five Generations Alive Today
The Gnostic Generation: Understanding and Ministering to Generation X
Reflection: The Way of Non-Direction: Insights on Spiritual Direction from the Tao Te Ching
Six Archetypes for Spiritual Guidance (with Lisa A. Fullam)
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

Reflective Practice
Interfaith Ministerial Formation at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministry
Not the Same: Online Spiritual Direction, Supervision, and Training

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