Welcome to my website, where I will give you a taste of my work on the soul and emerging ideas about spirituality and theology.
I consider myself first a theologian, not the denominational or dogmatic type, but rather one who tries to see the invisibles at work in our lives.
I'm interested in the mysteries that surround us inwardly and outwardly. The word theos in theology is usually translated easily as "God," but the more I study religion and pursue my own spiritual life, the more I find "God" to be more mysterious than anything. To speak of God is to peer into a deep well at the very center of existence. And so, my theological work has to do with observing and reverencing the awesome depth of the smallest and most ordinary of things.
According to the German poet Novalis, "The seat of the soul is there, where the inner world and the outer world touch. Where they permeate each other, the seat is in every point of the permeation." That's a fine description of the soul, but I would place the focus of my work at the point where spirit and soul touch and permeate each other, where psychology and religion overlap. So I do therapy in a theological way and theology with a therapeutic goal in mind.
I love my chosen field of depth theology. I find it fascinating, and I also think it has the only effective answers to the problems that make the world such a dangerous place today. People everywhere are caught up in a spiritual frenzy, a religious seizure where they feel too certain, too virtuous, and too divided from their fellow brothers and sisters. The word "religion" is used for both the mania and the cautious pursuit of the mysteries, and so it is difficult to use. Nevertheless, I continue to speak positively about religion, hopeful that it will eventually be restored, not as a silly naive belief system but as a deep-seated attitude of reverence.
I am hard at work on a complete re-imagination of this website. Soon, I hope, at this website you will encounter some of the mysteries I am talking about. Meanwhile, please take a dip into a perspective that I have fashioned out of the work of many men and woman who understood the importance of spirit and soul: C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, the Marquis de Sade, J.S. Bach, William Morris, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, the Buddha, Samuel Beckett, Anne Sexton, Jesus, Marsilio Ficino, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
