I’ve always been involved in church, from the day I was born. My family was pastors and missionaries and all that. The church was just a way of life for us. But it was too volatile for me to lose focus from the incredibly traumatic world I shared with my partner for even one sec...
Both children were healthy 3-year-olds when I met the boy’s mother through a note she posted on a bulletin board at the local Whole Foods. Around that time, she was becoming a raw food chef, and became a serious devotee of the raw food lifestyle promoted by David “Avocado” Wolfe ...
Arizona. It was the roaring 70’s and I was a teenager, thrilled with the exciting new things that were happening in the church. I remember the admiration I felt for the BVM[1]sisters in my parish. The BVM’s nurtured my faith with their hospitable ...
unless the former’s faith or lack thereof did not match the chaplains, in which case referrals to a religious leader in the community were favoured. This shed light to the tendencies to homogenise religious/spiritual beliefs. The paper concludes with some implications for practice and research....
We have oversampled members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (i.e., Church of Jesus Christ, LDS, Mormons) in various phases of our American Families of Faith project. There are several reasons for this. Studies have found that active members of the Church of Jesus Chris...
2 This intrinsic question read: "To what extent was the significance of this experience due to the music itself? (For example was it due to the melody, harmony, rhythm, instruments, etc.?)" 3 All quotes come from the questionnaire, and no further guidance was given in these questions. ...