Clergy Reflections on Spiritually Transformative Experiences

I'm speaking on a webinar this Wednesday, February 12, 2025

I will be speaking on a webinar this Wednesday, February 12, at 8pm Eastern time, for the Dallas/Ft. Worth IANDS monthly meeting (International Association for Near-Death Studies).

You can register for the event here.

I will discuss various STEs shared with me by parishioners over the years and connect them with scripture, as well as reflect on their connection. There will be time for questions and answers at the end. Hope to see you there!

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In honor of Black History Month I leave you with the words of the African-American mystic, author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman:

“I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind.”