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“Do Not Be Afraid … You Are My Dearest Friends”*

Toxic Fear is perhaps life’s greatest hostage-taker. One psychiatrist calls it a “disease of the imagination.” Fear and disabling Worry can start off like a tiny seed and, watered by thoughts that emphasize worst-case scenarios, grow into a virus-like fiend that ends up dominating our mental state. It then holds us back from our ability to enjoy nearly every dimension of our life: our talents, our work, our love, our play, and our approach to a life in the Spirit.

This website is dedicated to three major Defense Systems that can be effective in helping us overcome the insidious nature of fear, as well as other mental health demons like depression. It will also focus on how we can better live out our lives free of those persistent foragers that roam throughout the corners of our minds… relentlessly haunting us.

Those three Defense Systems are: Spirituality, Psychology and Addiction. All three of these provide newly developed means of delving into the root causes of fear and depression and other mental health disorders, and assisting people in finding improved pathways to freedom, joy, and peace.

“Do not be afraid” – a phrase found 365 times in Sacred Scripture!

*Luke 12:32; translation found in The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene H. Peterson

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Apathy on the Question of God

Jan 21, 2016

A recent comment on a blog I wrote about violence and religion had this to say: “…Religion promotes the belief in something that is and has never been proven,...

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From newyorker.com: Seeing the Spectrum

Jan 20, 2016

Seeing the Spectrum http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/seeing-the-spectrum

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Pope Francis: a not-so-clear, but very present danger

Jan 20, 2016

Article published in the National Catholic Reporter http://ncronline.org/blogs/roman-observer/pope-francis-not-so-clear-very-present-danger

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Catholic Whistleblowers requests Vatican investigation of flaws in US bishops’ sex abuse policies

Jan 20, 2016

Article published in the National Catholic Reporter http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/catholic-whistleblowers-requests-vatican-investigation-flaws-us-bishops-sex

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Richard Rohr’s Meditation: Our Destination

Jan 20, 2016

Click here to view Richard’s Meditation