Science vs Spirituality: Beyond the Psychological Self — On Unconditional Love

  • Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Self is not the Source

    Psychology has a clear map for pouring from an empty self. But what if the pouring is not coming from the self at all? What if it is coming from Him – and He always replenishes?

  • Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Incomplete Map

    Psychology has given us a clear map for pouring from an empty self. What it cannot chart is the possibility that the pouring might not be coming from the self at all.

  • Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Self-Awareness as Refined Selfishness

    What often passes for self-awareness today is less about honest examination before God and more about the skilled protection of the emotional self. The language sounds wise. The fruit is often a quieter, more sophisticated form of selfishness.

  • Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — What Healthy Love Actually Is

    Most of the confusion around boundaries, self-awareness, and “too much” love does not start with those topics themselves. It starts with the fact that many people no longer have a clear understanding of what love actually is – psychologically, philosophically, or biblically.

  • Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Pearls, Swine, and the Ongoing Yes

    The command not to cast pearls before swine is a real warning. But it is a call to wisdom about how we give, not a release from the call to keep loving. There is a difference between guarding what is holy and refusing to let love move through us at all.

  • Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Why I Left the Field

    I did not leave the field of psychology because I stopped believing it had value. I left because I could no longer pretend the map was complete. A framework that begins and ends with the human person will eventually struggle to make room for a Source beyond the person.

  • Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Living from the Source

    Living from the Source means the center of gravity has shifted. The primary question is no longer “How much am I getting back?” The deeper question becomes “What is God giving me to carry and to offer, and how do I steward it wisely?”