What do we mean when we use the word God?
About James Hazelwood
A Cure for Our Collective Despair
The first step toward a pursuit of, let’s call it contentment, is to embrace that life is difficult, life is hard, life endures suffering.
The first step toward a pursuit of, let’s call it contentment, is to embrace that life is difficult, life is hard, life endures suffering.
Images of the Divine: The Good Shepherd
Hermes, Jesus, and the Symbolic Language of the Sacred
Hermes, Jesus, and the Symbolic Language of the Sacred
When the Trick Gets Old
I think a new diagnosis is needed for our time. TFS – Trump Fatigue Syndrome.
I think a new diagnosis is needed for our time. TFS – Trump Fatigue Syndrome.
Perseverance Is the Answer
We are all stumbling forward, despite the failures and misfortunes.
We are all stumbling forward, despite the failures and misfortunes
The God We Dare Not Name
It seems we, as a nation, love war.
It seems we, as a nation, love war.
Behind the Mask
The gap between the public face and the hidden self, runs throughout human history.
The gap between the public face and the hidden self, runs throughout human history.
The Irony of American Righteousness
The greatest threats to democracy often don’t come from its obvious enemies but from its corrupted allies.
The greatest threats to democracy often don’t come from its obvious enemies but from its corrupted allies.
The Toddler on His Throne
Three Conversations on the Allure of the Strongman
Three Conversations on the Allure of the Strongman
The Archetype of the Bully
Resisting with Clowns and Vulnerability
Resisting with Clowns and Vulnerability
The Psyche in the Public Square
When the unconscious goes public.
When the unconscious goes public.
Christmas Pageants and a Gritty Spirituality
Nose-picking at the birth of the eternal into the temporal just about captures the reality check needed.
Nose-picking at the birth of the eternal into the temporal just about captures the reality check needed.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Apocalypse, as unveiling, suggests that a crisis is not just an end but a moment revealing something previously hidden.
Apocalypse, as unveiling, suggests that a crisis is not just an end but a moment revealing something previously hidden.
Is it 1984?
Political language, Orwell wrote, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Political language, Orwell wrote, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Falsehoods, Lies and Deception as Symptom
Political falsehoods are often personal evasions enlarged.
Political falsehoods are often personal evasions enlarged.
The Journal as Friend & Enemy
Journal entries can range from the mundane to the mystical. But hey, isn’t that how we live our lives?
Journal entries can range from the mundane to the mystical. But hey, isn’t that how we live our lives?