The Purpose, Use, and Meaning of Human Sexuality
A Cross-Disciplinary White Paper on Mythology, Science, and Cultural Variation
Frederic Jones PhD
Frederic Jones PhD has published forty-five books, many on psychology, art, drawing, photography, fiction and design. In his spare time, he has a full-time private practice as a clinical/medical psychologist in Northern California.
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The Myth of “Perpetual Rent”
Why property taxes are not an extraction of the state, but our dues for a civilized neighborhood.
For the Disciples and UCC congregations: Called is the book for your adult education series
A direct note to ministers, adult education directors, and lay leaders in Disciples of Christ congregations:
The Sunday Morning That Changed Chapter 9
Larry Love told me this story about two-thirds of the way through our work on Called, and it became the emotional center of the book’s final third.
What Does “Open Table” Actually Mean When It Costs Something?
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) practices what it calls the open table: communion offered to all, without examination of doctrine, without test of baptismal status, without verification of moral record.
Three practices from Called that you can start this weekend
Called isn’t primarily a theology book.
What Writing a Book With a Minister Taught Me About My Own Practice
About halfway through writing Called, Larry Love said something to me that I’ve been sitting with ever since.
The Most Underrated Spiritual Capacity You Have
At the center of every genuine transformation I have witnessed in forty years of clinical practice — and every genuine conversion I have witnessed in a lifetime of faith — is a single capacity: the ability to step back from your own mind and watch it.
A reader said: “This is the book I’ve been waiting for.” Here’s a look inside.
From Chapter 2 of Called: A Faith for the Forward-Looking:
The Question That Made Me Write This Book
A student in one of my clinical training sessions asked me a question I couldn’t answer.