Spiritually Incorrect

by Wakefield, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781893361881
• ISBN10: 1893361888
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

In this 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 coffeehouse 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?

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
I. A Guide to Spiritual Incorrectness	1	(20)
1. Does God Care If You Drive a Convertible?	5	(5)
2. My Spiritually Incorrect Journey Back to God	10	(11)
II. The Spiritually Incorrect Outlook	21	(54)
3. Hearing Voices	26	(4)
4. Is Poverty Sacred, Wealth Profane?	30	(6)
5. A Vote for Women as Ministers	36	(4)
6. Spirited Pets	40	(4)
7. The Coffee House as Sacred Space	44	(4)
8. Sexual Orientation and the Spirit	48	(3)
9. Is God in a Tree?	51	(4)
10. Needed: One Spiritual Emergency	55	(4)
11. Macho Men at Prayer	59	(4)
12. Speaking in Tongues	63	(6)
13. New Age, New Opportunities	69	(6)
III. The Spiritually Incorrect Body	75	(93)
14. Many Roads to Recovery	80	(3)
15. When Prozac Spells Relief	83	(4)
16. Soul Food?	87	(3)
17. Spa Spirituality	90	(5)
18. Does Yoga Make You a Hindu?	95	(4)
IV. Profiles of Spiritually Incorrect Lives	99	(5)
19. Who Do You Think Is a Saint?	104	(4)
20. Can a Greenwich Village Radical Become a Saint?: Dorothy Day	108	(4)
21. A Monk in Love: Thomas Merton	112	(4)
22. The Spiritual Legacy of a Pagan: C. Wright Mills	116	(4)
23. We Have the Power to Change: Werner Erhard	120	(6)
24. Communicating with the Unseen: Ollah Toph	126	(3)
25. Clear Vision: Reynolds Price	129	(7)
26. Be Old Now: Ram Dass	136	(8)
27. Rowing toward God: Anne Sexton	144	(7)
28. A Believing Nonbeliever: Leonard Kriegel	151	(6)
29. Better Than Church Spires: Norm Eddy	157	(4)
30. He Takes No Prisoners: Henri Nouwen	161	(7)
About the Author	168	(2)
About Skylight Paths	170