J. Pittman McGehee is a private-practice analyst. He teaches at University of Houston and is the director of The Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality. He served, for 11 years, as Dean of Christ Church cathedral in Houston. He has held many distinguished lectureships, including the 1987 Harvey Lecture at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, the 1988 Perkins Lecture in Wichita Falls, the 1990 Woodhull Lectures in Dayton, and the 1991 St. Luke's Lectures in Birmingham. He was the 1994 Rockwell Visiting Theologian at the University of Houston and 1996 Carolyn Fay Lecturer in Analytical Psychology also at the University of Houston.Damon J. Thomas is a writer and editor living in Houston, Texas. He is the co-author of Speaking from the Heart: Transforming Stage Fright and Telling Your Own Story (co-written with Sandra Zimmer). An experienced journalist and public relations executive, Thomas has published numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

• Series Foreword by J. Harold EllensPart I:Why That Old Time Religion Isnt Good Enough for Anybody.1. The American Pseudo-Religion2. The Rising Tide of Anxiety and & Fundamentalism3. The Church as Negative Mother and& Father4. How Does Religion Wound Us?Part II: Finding a Healthy Spirituality for the 21st Century5. Reclaiming Religion6. Christianitys Symbols and& Sacred Stories7. The Kingdom Within8. The (Lighter) Burden of Consciousness9. Finding a Healthy Spirituality&Encounteringthe Transcendent in Everyday Life

McGehee, former dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston and director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality, and Thomas (coauthor, Speaking from the Heart) see peril for all of us in two unreconciled extremes in religious life—faithless fact and irrational fiction. Their well-argued book posits another direction for the many seekers who find themselves somewhere between atheism and Fundamentalism; guided by the ideas of Jung, they evoke the power of the inner realities of myth. .. effective and moving…

J. Pittman McGehee is a private-practice analyst. He teaches at University of Houston and is the director of The Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality. He served, for 11 years, as Dean of Christ Church cathedral in Houston. He has held many distinguished lectureships, including the 1987 Harvey Lecture at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, the 1988 Perkins Lecture in Wichita Falls, the 1990 Woodhull Lectures in Dayton, and the 1991 St. Luke's Lectures in Birmingham. He was the 1994 Rockwell Visiting Theologian at the University of Houston and 1996 Carolyn Fay Lecturer in Analytical Psychology also at the University of Houston.Damon J. Thomas is a writer and editor living in Houston, Texas. He is the co-author of Speaking from the Heart: Transforming Stage Fright and Telling Your Own Story (co-written with Sandra Zimmer). An experienced journalist and public relations executive, Thomas has published numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

• Series Foreword by J. Harold EllensPart I:Why That Old Time Religion Isnt Good Enough for Anybody.1. The American Pseudo-Religion2. The Rising Tide of Anxiety and & Fundamentalism3. The Church as Negative Mother and& Father4. How Does Religion Wound Us?Part II: Finding a Healthy Spirituality for the 21st Century5. Reclaiming Religion6. Christianitys Symbols and& Sacred Stories7. The Kingdom Within8. The (Lighter) Burden of Consciousness9. Finding a Healthy Spirituality&Encounteringthe Transcendent in Everyday Life

McGehee, former dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston and director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality, and Thomas (coauthor, Speaking from the Heart) see peril for all of us in two unreconciled extremes in religious life—faithless fact and irrational fiction. Their well-argued book posits another direction for the many seekers who find themselves somewhere between atheism and Fundamentalism; guided by the ideas of Jung, they evoke the power of the inner realities of myth. .. effective and moving…

J. Pittman McGehee is a private-practice analyst. He teaches at University of Houston and is the director of The Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality. He served, for 11 years, as Dean of Christ Church cathedral in Houston. He has held many distinguished lectureships, including the 1987 Harvey Lecture at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, the 1988 Perkins Lecture in Wichita Falls, the 1990 Woodhull Lectures in Dayton, and the 1991 St. Luke's Lectures in Birmingham. He was the 1994 Rockwell Visiting Theologian at the University of Houston and 1996 Carolyn Fay Lecturer in Analytical Psychology also at the University of Houston.Damon J. Thomas is a writer and editor living in Houston, Texas. He is the co-author of Speaking from the Heart: Transforming Stage Fright and Telling Your Own Story (co-written with Sandra Zimmer). An experienced journalist and public relations executive, Thomas has published numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

• Series Foreword by J. Harold EllensPart I:Why That Old Time Religion Isnt Good Enough for Anybody.1. The American Pseudo-Religion2. The Rising Tide of Anxiety and & Fundamentalism3. The Church as Negative Mother and& Father4. How Does Religion Wound Us?Part II: Finding a Healthy Spirituality for the 21st Century5. Reclaiming Religion6. Christianitys Symbols and& Sacred Stories7. The Kingdom Within8. The (Lighter) Burden of Consciousness9. Finding a Healthy Spirituality&Encounteringthe Transcendent in Everyday Life

McGehee, former dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston and director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality, and Thomas (coauthor, Speaking from the Heart) see peril for all of us in two unreconciled extremes in religious life—faithless fact and irrational fiction. Their well-argued book posits another direction for the many seekers who find themselves somewhere between atheism and Fundamentalism; guided by the ideas of Jung, they evoke the power of the inner realities of myth. .. effective and moving…