…stories of growth and stages of belief…
Finally! I have had this in draft for weeks - just could not get it down in final form ’til now…
In the discussion of stages of religious belief, it is important to point out that this should not be about who is “right” versus who is “wrong.”
Stage twos (see Religious Development for Dummies for explanation of the stages) tend to need the certainty of knowing Read the rest of this entry »
Do you have a story about how you changed what you believe in religiously? Please send it in so we all can learn from it! mpjmpj@BeliefStagesandGrowth.com
Most of the early stories on this site came from people who are writers. If you want to send in yours, please don’t worry Read the rest of this entry »
I have said this before and I will say it again. I am not trying to put myself out as any type of expert on religion. It is just that by means of some little bits of information I ran across years ago, I have been allowed a type of understanding that has helped me Read the rest of this entry »
I am afraid there is a general trend in certain segments of the population to assume that anyone who is an atheist is a bad person. This is simply not the Read the rest of this entry »
The bullet points listed below are taken from a text by Walter Clark Psychology of Religion. The points he lists for a “mature religion” are quite analogous to M. Scott Peck’s Stage four, James Fowler’s stages five and six and Wilber’s green Read the rest of this entry »
Personal Letter to My Readers
This blog is about religion, about belief and about spirituality. I believe in the power of religion, the importance of knowing how we got here, and where we are going next, what we Read the rest of this entry »
Religious spiritual development….for Dummies
There have been several people seriously researching the topic of religious development. They however write on a level that only the most serious reader would persevere with. Pragmatic person that I am, I figure that as long as they write on a very complex academic level, only the very serious student will ever appreciate their findings.
Though I am neither an academic nor a theologian, my purpose in these writings is to try and make some complex topics more understandable for the general public. I feel if more people understood the concepts these researchers are coming up with, Read the rest of this entry »