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Spirituality for Times Like This – Fall 2025 Sessions
Well, we find ourselves in trouble. Or did it find us?Trouble seems to find you when it’s most unjust.Slim Dunlap, Times Like This I invite you to participate in Spirituality for Times Like This. Spirituality and the inner life have heightened importance in trying times. Knowing oneself – who we are inside…
Bowen Family Systems Theory 2025-26
At the end of the day, we all just want long-term, life-altering change. We all want to live a life guided by principle rather than fear or worry. And deep down, we do have the capacity to calm ourselves.We are capable of shutting off our autopilot and grabbing the controls.…
Christianity: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It
A Live Zoom Discussion Sunday August 3, 2025, Noon Central I’m delighted to offer an online discussion with the brilliant Martha Crawford on Christianity and our times. I’m Martha Crawford, a former psychotherapist who worked providing individual therapy and clinical supervision for a long time – I’m terrible with time…
Family Systems & Church Leadership
Summer 2025Societal Emotional Process and Church Leadership in These Times To participate, please email Rev. Wendy Vie Trittin, revwendyvie@gmail.com. Dr. Murray Bowen theorized in the 1960s that all societies have periods of regression and that the United States was currently experiencing one. As he continued his work developing Family Systems…
Why Do You Call Yourself Pastor and Rev.?
’m interested in your ideas, but you’re a pastor, and I don’t like organized religion. I want to recommend you and your programs to my friends, but they’ll see Rev. at the beginning of your name and that’ll scare them off. You no longer have a church, so why do…
Turning to Spirituality for Times Like This – Session 2
Well, we find ourselves in trouble. Or did it find us?Trouble seems to find you when it’s most unjust.~ Slim Dunlap, Times Like This I invite you to participate in Spirituality for Times Like This. Spirituality and the inner life have heightened importance in trying times. Knowing oneself – who we are…
Christian Nationalism, Dark Religion, and Spirituality for Times Like This
Turning inward at times like this, we learn to see in the dark. Each day brings a night of fear. In response, we have much to say and do, including attending to our spirituality and inner life. Many are also rightly concerned with Christian Nationalism and its adherents, who claim…
Spirituality for Times Like This – Session 1
Well, we find ourselves in trouble. Or did it find us?Trouble seems to find you when it’s most unjust.~ Slim Dunlap, Times Like This Session Two is now available! I invite you to participate in Spirituality for Times Like This. Spirituality and the inner life have heightened importance in trying times. Knowing…
Inside Out no. 3: Quotations and Thinking
Who are you without your biographical information? – Rev. Wendy Vie We must always grasp for what we cannot reach, knowing that the grasping itself is enough. – Joan Chittister Fundamentalism isolates a few things and removes them from relationships to everything else – past, present, and future. – Rev.…
Inside Out no. 2: Quotations and Thinking
The immanent is transcendent when universal. The transcendent is immanent when embodied. – Rev. Wendy Vie Love is the first word we don’t say to everyone. – Sparrow in The Sun, June 2007 The gifts of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, generosity, faithfulness, and self-control –…