Last week I wrote about conscious and unconscious experience and about how we humans know only in part who we are. For devout people who

In 1986 when Bon Jovi had the #1 song, Livin’ on a Prayer, about Tommy and Gina trying to make it by loving each other

One of the first and continuing gifts of psychological study to the healthy practice of spirituality is the overarching concept of the division of our

Several years ago, I took a 7-day silent retreat. The first thing my spiritual director instructed me to do on retreat was to sleep. I

Neuroscience has been helping us understand more fully how our brains work in fascinating and sometimes troubling ways. We process the information that coming to

To forgive someone is a gift. It is not dependent on a good apology or improved behavior. Often when we think about forgiving our focus

One reason many of us struggle to forgive, particularly in Christian circles, is that we avoid conflicts rather than facing them. In the process of

In the secular psychological literature on forgiving there is a distinction drawn between forgiving and reconciliation. Researchers point out that we can let go of

In the psychological literature on forgiveness, a few terms have been defined that are helpful as we explore this rich topic. Researchers offer us these

In the positive psychology movement of the last two decades, forgiveness has been studied extensively with thousands of articles published on the topic, with a