# 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. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Purpose, Use, and Meaning of Human Sexuality](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/the-purpose-use-and-meaning-of-human) _2026-07-24 · Frederic Jones PhD_ A Cross-Disciplinary White Paper on Mythology, Science, and Cultural Variation ## [The Myth of “Perpetual Rent”](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-perpetual-rent) _2026-07-16 · Frederic Jones PhD_ 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](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/for-the-disciples-and-ucc-congregations) _2026-07-04 · Frederic Jones PhD_ A direct note to ministers, adult education directors, and lay leaders in Disciples of Christ congregations: ## [The Sunday Morning That Changed Chapter 9](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/the-sunday-morning-that-changed-chapter) _2026-07-02 · Frederic Jones PhD_ 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?](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/what-does-open-table-actually-mean) _2026-06-30 · Frederic Jones PhD_ 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](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/three-practices-from-called-that) _2026-06-27 · Frederic Jones PhD_ Called isn’t primarily a theology book. ## [What Writing a Book With a Minister Taught Me About My Own Practice](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/what-writing-a-book-with-a-minister) _2026-06-25 · Frederic Jones PhD_ 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](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/the-most-underrated-spiritual-capacity) _2026-06-23 · Frederic Jones PhD_ 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.](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/a-reader-said-this-is-the-book-ive) _2026-06-20 · Frederic Jones PhD_ From Chapter 2 of Called: A Faith for the Forward-Looking: ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VhoskBSJrhQS) _2026-06-20 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [The Question That Made Me Write This Book](https://fredjonesphd.substack.com/p/the-question-that-made-me-write-this) _2026-06-18 · Frederic Jones PhD_ A student in one of my clinical training sessions asked me a question I couldn’t answer.