Integrative Rumination

Education

Maintaining optimism when hope fails: A guide to resilience.

In a world often marked by uncertainty, challenges, and setbacks, maintaining optimism can feel like an uphill battle. Hope is a powerful motivator, but what happens when the light at the end of the tunnel dims? When hope fails, it can be easy to succumb to despair and pessimism. However, cultivating a sense of optimism […]

A mirror worth looking in

There is no adult in perfect physical health, nor is there one in perfect mental health.  To claim otherwise is unhealthy.  If that were true, there would be no need to take the precautions that we take against infections or even the common cold, and there would be no need to treat any ailment. But […]

Fear! (Part II)

The seeds of social rejection are sown and nurtured through stigmatization, labeling, and myriad forms of discrimination.  Every act of group stigmatization arises out of the desire of a dominant group to establish, exercise and maintain its dominance over less powerful or marginalized groups.  The elements of stigmatization include negative labeling, social separation of groups, […]

Fear! (Part I)

For a very long time, we have known from studies that human nature would almost require us to do anything that we think might protect us from real, imagined or clearly perceived dangers. The other side of that is that, out of a desire for the preservation of organized society, we are under the requirement […]

Living on society’s margins.

They exist in small and large communities, in houses of worship and even in schools, but they are invisible.  They may receive gazes from people who wonder if they just happened by accident into the spaces that they occupy, who let them in and for how long they will hang around.  To some, they are […]

Ceding the world to evil

I often wonder how people who speak glowingly about the omnipotence and omnipresence of God also speak just as strongly about what they say is the overwhelming dominance and control of the world by the devil. I expect to be accused of missing the point of such a frequently expressed claim on the basis that […]

When Liars Lead

Liars were never meant to lead. Well, maybe they were. But maybe they were supposed to just lead other liars. Quite sincerely, I do not know. But what if the latter is the case – that liars were supposed to just lead bands of liars?  If so, where and when did we go wrong?  Why […]

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