Spiritually Incorrect

by Wakefield, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781594731372
• ISBN10: 1594731373
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

In an age of political correctness and watching what we say, award-winning author Dan Wakefield dares to ask the risky (and sometimes hilarious) questions about spirituality: ? Why is poverty sacred, wealth profane? ? Can a coffee house be a sacred space? ? Does yoga make you a Hindu? ? Can a man pray in public and still be ?macho?? ? Does eating a steak really taint your soul? ? Who in our lives and our modern-day world deserves to be canonized as a saint? Wakefield's creative exploration of these questions is a quest to free the spiritual world from pretension, anxiety and the seemingly endless rules that can dictate how you identify (or don?t) with religion. Humorous stories from his own spiritually incorrect journey to God punctuate Wakefield's ultimate revelation that spirituality is not about conforming to a set of rules, but rather discovering the practices that uniquely work for you.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
A Guide to Spiritual Incorrectness	1	(20)
Does God Care If You Drive a Convertible?	5	(5)
My Spiritually Incorrect Journey Back to God	10	(11)
The Spiritually Incorrect Outlook	21	(54)
Hearing Voices	26	(4)
Is Poverty Sacred, Wealth Profane?	30	(6)
A Vote for Women as Ministers	36	(4)
Spirited Pets	40	(4)
The Coffee House as Sacred Space	44	(4)
Sexual Orientation and the Spirit	48	(3)
Is God in a Tree?	51	(4)
Needed: One Spiritual Emergency	55	(4)
Macho Men at Prayer	59	(4)
Speaking in Tongues	63	(6)
New Age, New Opportunities	69	(6)
The Spiritually Incorrect Body	75	(24)
Many Roads to Recovery	80	(3)
When Prozac Spells Relief	83	(4)
Soul Food?	87	(3)
Spa Spirituality	90	(5)
Does Yoga Make You a Hindu?	95	(4)
Profiles of Spiritually Incorrect Lives	99	(69)
Who Do You Think Is a Saint?	104	(4)
Can a Greenwich Village Radical Become a Saint?	108	(4)
Dorothy Day
A Monk in Love	112	(4)
Thomas Merton
The Spiritual Legacy of a Pagan	116	(4)
C. Wright Mills
We Have the Power to Change	120	(6)
Werner Erhard
Communicating with the Unseen	126	(3)
Ollah Toph
Clear Vision	129	(7)
Reynolds Price
Be Old Now	136	(8)
Ram Dass
Rowing toward God	144	(7)
Anne Sexton
A Believing Nonbeliever	151	(6)
Leonard Kriegel
Better Than Church Spires	157	(4)
Norm Eddy
He Takes No Prisoners	161	(7)
Henri Nouwen
About the Author	168	(2)
About SkyLight Paths	170