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The so-close-but-no-cigar routine is getting old for TCU.Coach Trent Johnson and his players are getting tired of the familiar feeling that cropped up after No. 15 Texas held on for a 59-54 win Tuesday night at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.The Longhorns (18-4, 7-2 Big 12) won their seventh in a row since opening conference play 0-2. For Texas fans, which made up about half of the 5,233 in attendance, the win elicited a sigh of relief.It was clear the Horned Frogs weren't going to allow Texas to waltz to victory. Whether it was a case of a Longhorns letdown after beating Kansas on Saturday or taking a victory over TCU — which is still looking for its first Big 12 win — for granted, it was apparent early that the Frogs weren't going to fade without a fight.TCU (9-12, 0-9) led 22-20 after finishing the first half on an 8-2 run. Both teams shot poorly in the first half and combined for 15 turnovers, including 10 for Texas.Five minutes into the second half, Brandon Parrish hit a 3 from the corner to give TCU its largest lead of the game, 32-28. That sort of woke up Texas, or at least forward Jonathan Holmes, and TCU's lead didn't last long.Holmes took over, scoring seven consecutive points to give Texas a 35-32 lead with 12:36 left. Holmes hit a 3 on an inbounds pass and finished the stretch by converting a three-point play on a layup and foul. Before the run, Holmes was 1 for 7 from the field. He finished with a game-high 20 points and 16 rebounds."We weren't executing on offense," Holmes said. "Their zone was slowing us down a little bit. It got stagnant at times. [The 7-0 run] was in the flow of the game. The guards did a really good job of looking for me."TCU has struggled with rebounding for much of the season, and Texas, the league's top rebounding team, exploited the disparity by outrebounding the Frogs 56-25."I mean, that's ridiculous," said Amric Fields, who led TCU with 16 points and eight rebounds. "And that's where the game was. Right there."It's been a tough four-game stretch for the Frogs, who have had chances to win in all of them except a loss to Kansas. Playing top-ranked teams close makes it no easier to swallow."When you have good kids and you're trying to build something and they put everything they have into it, whether it's 20, whether it's 30, whether it's 1 or 2, losing is painful," said an exasperated Trent Johnson, whose team held Texas to 31 percent from the field, a season-low for TCU opponents. "Regardless who's out there, it's still a loss. It's painful."Painful because despite the huge rebounding disparity, TCU had plenty of chances to nab the win in the final four minutes. Brandon Parrish twice was fouled on layups but both times missed the ensuing free throw. The second of those free-throw attempts would have tied the score at 50-50 with 3:45 remaining.Instead, Holmes grabbed an offensive rebound at the other end, was fouled and sank both free throws to stretch Texas' lead to 52-49. Parrish responded with a 3-pointer to tie it at 52-52 with 3:14 to go, but Holmes came right back after another Texas offensive rebound to hit a 3 from the corner to put the 'Horns back up for good, 55-52, with 2:41 remaining.TCU didn't score again until Christian Gore's reverse layup cut the deficit to 57-54 with 45 seconds to go. After a Texas timeout, Cameron Ridley was fouled after an offensive rebound and made both free throws to give Texas a secure five-point cushion with seven seconds left.Fields said it's getting tough to find any moral victory in staying close with top-20 teams."I think it's fading a little bit," Fields said. "We're not satisfied with just keeping people close. We feel we're tougher than what we show."Texas coach Rick Barnes said his team played tentatively in the first half, which contributed to 10 of the Longhorns' first-half turnovers. They only had three after the break."The first half we definitely played not to lose," he said. "We haven't had 10 turnovers in a long time. It was because we were turning down shots. At the end, we've been in those kinds of games all year. We were tentative, and we can't play that way."
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NZ government network leaking data like a sieve
Re: Ministry of Social Development
we also have the GCSB (Dotcom spies) and MoBIE (otherwise known as Ministry of Bloody EverythIng)
it's MSD not MND
Meanwhile, Institute of IT Professionals New Zealand chief executive Paul Matthews says MSD's security woes appear to go far beyond the kiosks:
"As well as the clear issues of placing a publicly accessible system on an internal network containing highly sensitive data, the fact that any computer on the network can seemingly openly access these types of files points to a potential widespread systemic failure of IT security and governance."
HP imposes staff wage cuts
That is ONE exception, Anon. The more usual HP experience is described (anonymously) at sites like these:
The common refrain is that HP staff are ROUTINELY paid below market rates. Also for many workers there has been NO salary increase for 5 years. There has been a continuous effort from upper management to demoralize the workforce by eroding pay and conditions ~ how would you like to have a pay freeze for 5 years while the cost of living rockets up? The only way to further ones career is to LEAVE a parasitic corporation like this. "Slasher" Mark Hurd sucked away the last remnants of good will years ago. There's no longer a company culture when every message from the corporate lords and masters is designed to suffocate talented people and treat them like drones.
Corporations are personal fiefdom of executive class
Don't you guys realize that corporations and everything they do have one main function: to support the lifestyle of our heroes in the Elite caste, we are all mere functionaries. Everything they do is just a smokescreen to disguise their urge to (monetize, incentivize, synergize) PILLAGE and PLUNDER the last vestiges of wealth from the peasantry.
Why port your Firefox add-on to Internet Explorer?
Heard of IE7Pro?
It is EASILY the best add-on for IE ; making it nearly as good as FF/Opera
Facebook ignores huge security hole for four months
But James, XSS is *remote* script!
NoScript is able to distinguish XSS from JavaScript running locally. Its XSS filter even remains active when you allow js globally. For example embedded Youtude vids are blocked until you explicitly allow them.
And *everybody* should use NoScript -- XSS attacks are very common, and malicious js is not just limited to obscure corners of the web. Even big sites get compromised sometimes.
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This lets humans process information from their unique/varied perspectives, and make value judgments. OK markets ain't perfect, but they're still the best way of harnessing the collective wisdom of a crowd. No supercomputer required.
And so we begin the tech sector's journey into the Heart of Darkness
Tech Bubble 2.0
Is gonna hurt more than the first one. In Y2K I had share options worth $5000 then cashed them in 2 weeks later for $800. The price drop was largely because the CEO had cashed in his overpriced shares for $100 million and promptly retired to California. Bastard.
New York's Freedom Tower to depend on RFID
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some of us live in the Southern hemisphere, you insensitive clods!
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Chip Underhill of Pinkerton Academy said that Anderson and other officials attended to answer any questions parents had.
Superintendent Charles Littlefield said that along with being informed that Pinkerton had sent a contract for the district's consideration after news broke that negotiations had hit a snag, he has heard that Pinkerton would potentially be open to a memorandum of understanding if negotiations on a new contract are not finalized in time.
Board Chairman Trisha Korkosz said that it was a good sign that the Pinkerton officials were in attendance.
Board Vice-chairman David Pearl said he did not understand why Pinkerton officials were there.
"As far as I knew we were done with Pinkerton for next year, originally they were going to be here because the board anticipated having a contract, now I don't know what they are doing here," Pearl said.
"We don't want them to go to Manchester high schools, and we want to find an alternative high school. Manchester is too far, the curriculum doesn't suit us and the standards have lowered over the years. Central was a great place years ago, but we want better for our kids. This meeting tonight is a step in the right direction. It's very progressive and it's nice to see the school board put together all this information," DeCosta said.
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"Rap star Lil Wayne has gotten a temporary reprieve from jail," reports the Associated Press: "for dental surgery." His lawyer apparently told the judge that Wayne needed to finish a string of procedures on/in his mouth prior to heading to Rikers. The rapper's new date with destiny is March ... More >>
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In today's Daily News, Michael Daly notices that Shabia Johnakin, a "20-year-old Brooklyn high school dropout," got mere probation for gun possession, though he was trying to use his weapon (it jammed) in the company of men who were shooting at police. The clemency was in part due to Johnaki ... More >>
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Here is the free, full, sanctioned version of Lil Wayne's leftfield tour de force mixtape, No Ceilings. All sorts of bonkers gems on this one--typically wild similes ("I smoke mad weed/I'm on my high horse," ha), a lot of plain old joy and exultation, an "I Gotta Feeling" (!) cover, and some ... More >>
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The county board of supervisors made a decision that could affect some pet owners in our area.
All of the six members of the board voted to support a proposed ordinance that would add 'Section One' of the Corville Farm area to the list of places in the county where dogs are prohibited from running at large.
Board members said they recognize that not all dogs are dangerous, but they want to keep citizens safety a primary concern.
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Wizards of the Coast has released images from Magic the Gathering Modern Masters, a 229-card set of reprinted Modern-legal cards that is designed to be drafted. WotC has set a conservative print for Modern Masters, which is designed as a limited set and will not be Standard legal. Because of the limited print run, WotC will not be increasing the quantity of any card in circulation by more than a fraction of what is already out there. Modern Masters will come packaged in 15-card boosters with a premium card in every pack. Packed with the greatest hits and most potent cards from six years of releases, Modern Masters will have a significantly higher MSRP of $6.99 per 15 card pack.
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Skokie police officers went undercover as Edwardo's pizza delivery men after a man ordered a pizza and other food with a stranger's credit card.
The undercover operation on Jan. 8 included an officer wearing an Edwardo's jacket — and putting an Edwardo's sign on an unmarked squad car.
Police said William Peppers, 31, of the 10200 block of South Morgan, tried three different credit cards when ordering $51 in food to a Skokie address.
The first two cards were denied. The third belonged to a woman who had just reported fraudulent orders on her card, police said.
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An abundance of flat leaf parsley
I think the title is self explanatory - if it was basil I would be making pesto but I'm not sure what to do with excess parsley. Any suggestions welcome.
What better summertime dish than ... tabouleh! I offer you a recipe:
Panzanella, I think that's what it's called. It's salad of parsley, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and chunks of stale bread. I used to buy it take out from David Wood Foods in Toronto but I've never found a recipe that was as good as his. His had tons of parsley which others seem to skrimp on.
Chop some tomatoes, chop some parsley, make some couscous, add some onion, and then add S&P and olive oil. It's a very light, satisfying meal.
I second the parsley pesto, but you could try walnuts instead. I've never made a parsley oil, but I'd bet it would be good. The question would be -- blanch quickly first or not at all? (Probably not at all...)
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I have a load of the stuff too; picked it up cheap at the market yesterday. I intend to use most of it in the Nigella watermelon salad (you can search here for the recipe). But it also makes a nice salad leaf on its own. Add to your regular greens.
Another idea is a gremolata, which is essentially parsley, garlic, and lemon zest all finely chopped. Add some olive oil and maybe a little lemon juice and salt, and you have a nice sauce for meat or fish. I might add dried chili too, but that's me.
One other thought--basic spaghetti aglio olio is good with lots of fresh chopped parsley. Finely chop garlic and some dried chili. Heat olive oil in a pan. Add garlic and chili, let cook until garlic starts to color. Season with salt to taste. Remove from heat, add just-cooked spaghetti and chopped parsley to pan, toss and serve with cheese of your choice.


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Most of us have found ourselves on the other end of a convincing sales pitch at one point or another. How should you react? What are the questions you should ask? What are the potential red flags?
Recently News 3 had an opportunity to tape one of those pitches, an effort to convince a local consumer to transfer her timeshare deed. A News 3 investigative team used hidden cameras to record the hour-long presentation and then, did research and showed it to experts to get their feedback.
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Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man …
– "The Human Seasons" by John Keats
Stages of Spiritual Maturity
When I was transitioning out of my religion of origin (Mormonism), Alan Watts' book, Behold the Spirit, had a profound influence on the course of my subsequent spiritual development. Watts is best known for being a popular translator of Eastern spirituality for Western audiences. One of the quotes that stood out to me and which I copied into my little book of favorite quotations was this:
"In the stage of infancy, the church's moral teaching is of necessity authoritarian and legalistic. In adolescence, intensely earnest and self-consciously heroic, following after extremely lofty ideals. In maturity, we return somewhat to earth, and find the source of morality neither in external authority, nor in remote ideals, but in the consciousness of God himself in the heart."
As with many quotes that captured my attention at the time, I did not fully understand its meaning when I first read its, and I would only grow to understand it, sometimes years later, as I lived out that meaning in my own life. In the quote above, Watts identifies three stages of faith* development. These corresponded with the course of my own spiritual development. At the time I read the quote, I was leaving the first stage. My own literalistic understanding of religion had come into conflict with my intellectual explorations and my expanding sphere of personal experience. "Self-conciously heroic" would be an apt description of my departure from the Mormon church as I moved into Watts' second stage. I saw myself as struggling against the powers of ignorance and fear, both personal and collective. At the time, I had only a vague sense of an internal God-consciousness, which is a quality of Watts' third stage, but I longed for it. A couple of years later, Neo-Paganism helped me to "return somewhat to earth", as Watts says, and develop that inner divinity, which I am still attempting to do.
One of my role models from contemporary Paganism has been Aidan Kelly, the founder of the New Reformed Order of the Golden Dawn, a West Coast Neo-Pagan tradition organized in 1967. In his book, Crafting the Art of Magic, Kelly describes the same three stages in the development of an individual's religious maturity identified by Alan Watts:
"The first is the stage of childhood, during which the myths of religion, learned from parents and others, are believed implicitly. The second stage is the stage of adolescence, during which the critical intellect develops, and the objective facts of ordinary history are taken as the criteria by which to judge the plausibility or possibility of the myths, which are normally rejected as being simply false during this stage, which can last into the late twenties. The third stage is the beginnings of true maturity, in which the person realizes that the facts of ordinary history, being value-free, provide no basis for making decisions about life problems. At this stage the adult can begin to reappropriate the myths, recognizing that they are intended to be primarily statements of value, not statements of fact or history, and recognizing also that an interpretation of the myths which is much more sophisticated than that of a child must be possible; else these myths would hardly have survived for millenia as the basis for the value systems of world civilizations. One mark of true maturity is therefor the ability to tolerate the ambiguous tension between myth and history."
Kelly does a good job here of describing the third stage. At the time, I understood my own embrace of Neo-Paganism as the kind of "reappropriation" of mythology which Kelly describes as part of the third stage.
James Fowler's Stages of Faith
A few years later, my brother-in-law gave me a copy of James Fowler's book, Stages of Faith, which turned out to be a godsend. In Stages of Faith, Fowler describes this same process as Watts and Kelly above, but in much more detail, drawing on the theories of psychologists Piaget, Kohlberg, Erickson, and others. Fowler describes 6 stages of spiritual development. Fowler's Stages 2/3, 4, and 5 correspond roughly to the three stages described by Watts and Kelly above: a mythologizing stage, a de-mythologizing stage, and a reconstructive stage. It's these stages that I will be discussing below. (Fowler's Stage 1 corresponds to early childhood, of which most of us have little memory, and Stage 6 essentially corresponds to what might be called "enlightenment", which few of us will ever experience.)
Late Childhood Spirituality (Mythologizing Stage)
Fowler's Stage 2, which he called "Mythic-Literal Faith" (and which I call the Mythologizing Stage), is the stage most common in school children. It is characterized by one-dimensional and literalistic interpretations of the stories and beliefs of one's community. Experience is structured largely by means of linear narrative or story. The actors in the cosmic story are anthropomorphic. Individuals in this stage do not naturally step back to reflect on the meaning of the story. The world is understood to operate on a principle of reciprocal fairness and justice. Fowler warns that the literalness and excessive reliance on cosmic reciprocity at this stage can lead to "an overcontrolling, stilted perfectionism" ("works righteousness") on the one hand or "an abasing sense of badness" on the other (or, as in my personal case, both). A person begins to move out of this stage as they become aware of the contradictions in the stories they have inherited and begin to reflect on the meanings of those stories.
Adolescent Spirituality (Constructive Stage)
Fowler's Stage 3, which he calls "Synthetic-Conventional Faith" (and I call the Constructive Stage), typically develops in adolescence. In this stage, the individual seeks to construct a coherent worldview that will orient them in their increasingly complex environment. While we tend to think of adolescents as independence-seeking, Fowler calls this a "conformist stage". Individuals in this stage are "acutely tuned to the expectations and judgments of significant others" and do not have a sure enough grasp on their own identity and autonomous judgment to construct and maintain an independent perspective. Authority is located in traditional authority roles, if they are perceived as personally worthy, or in the "consensus of a valued, face-to-face group". According to Fowler, at this stage, beliefs and values may be deeply felt, but they are tacitly held. The individual "dwells" in their beliefs, rather than reflecting on them objectively:
"There has not been occasion to step outside them to reflect on or examine them explicitly or systematically. [In this stage,] a person has an 'ideology,' a more or less consistent clustering of values and beliefs, but he or she has not objectified it for examination and in a sense is unaware of having it. Differences of outlook with others are experienced as differences in 'kind' of person."
According to Fowler, one of the dangers of this stage is that "[t]he expectations and evaluations of others can be so compellingly internalized (and sacralized) that later autonomy of judgment and action can be jeopardized".
Young Adult Spirituality (Demythologizing/Deconstructive Stage)
Numerous factors can lead to a transition to the next stage, including:
"serious clashes or contradictions between valued authority sources; marked changes, by officially sanctioned leaders, or policies or practices previously deemed sacred and unbreachable; the encounter with experiences or perspectives that lead to critical reflection on how one's beliefs and values have formed and changed, and on how 'relative' they are to one's particular group or background";
or the experience of "leaving home" – emotionally, physically, or both — which precipitates the kind of self-examination that leads to a transition to the next stage. All of these factors played a role in my own disillusionment with Mormonism: contradictions of authorities, changes in doctrines, exposure to a world not so easily encapsulated in the Mormon paradigm, insight into my own personal history and idiosyncrasies that led me to embrace Mormonism at a young age, and so on.
Fowler's Stage 4, which he calls "Individuative-Reflective Faith", may begin in young adulthood for many, but for some it only emerges in the mid-thirties or forties. The individual begins to define him- or herself as distinct from group membership and social roles. The individual begins to take seriously their personal responsibility to examine their feelings and reflect critically on their beliefs. Fowler calls this the "demythologizing" stage. This is the stage, which many of my readers are undoubtedly familiar with, of deconstructing the dogma of one's previously-held faith. Individuals in this stage tend to have "an excessive confidence in the conscious mind and in critical thought". It also can breed a kind of narcissism. This certainly applied to me when I left the Mormon church. I believed that my rational mind would provide me with everything my spirit needed, and I was convinced I could do it alone. The danger of this stage is that it will lead to nihilism, but even nihilism can be a precursor to transformation.
An individual begins to move out of this stage as he or she begins to acknowledge in the influence of unconscious factors influencing their judgment and behavior, what Fowler calls "images and energies from a deeper self". An individual may also develop "a gnawing sense of the sterility and flatness of the meanings one serves". Stories, symbols, myths and paradoxes from one's own old tradition or from other traditions develop a new appeal. One begins to recognize that life is more complex than the "logic of clear distinctions and abstract concepts can comprehend" and begins to move toward "a more dialectical and multileveled approach to life truth."
Adult Spirituality (Remythologizing/Reconstructive Stage)
Fowler's calls his Stage 5 "Conjunctive Faith". According to Fowler, this stage is rare before mid-life, but I have found elements of it in people much younger. This stage involves the integration of spiritual elements that were either suppressed or unrecognized in the previous stage. It brings together the power of symbolic truths of Stage 3 with the critical awareness of Stage 4. This is a re-mythologizing stage; individuals in this stage can (re-)embrace symbols, myths and rituals — either those previously rejected or new ones — because they are no longer empty formalities; the individual has now experienced the "depth of reality" to which they refer.
This stage involves a "reclaiming and reworking of one's past" and "an opening to the voices of one's 'deeper self.'"
"What the previous stage struggled to clarify, in terms of the boundaries of self and outlook, this stage now makes porous and permeable. Alive to paradox and the truth in apparent contradictions, this stage strives to unify opposites in mind and experience. It generates and maintains vulnerability to the strange truths of those who are 'other.' Ready for closeness to that which is different and threatening to self and outlook (including new depths of experience in spirituality and religious revelation) [...]"
The strength of this stage comes from what Fowler calls "a capacity to see and be in one's or one's group's most powerful meanings, while simultaneously recognizing that they are relative, partial and inevitably distorting apprehensions of transcendent reality."
Limitations of Fowler's Stages
There are some obvious limitations to understanding spiritual development in this linear way. First, the stages can occur at nearly any point in a person's life. I have known adults who seem to be in Fowler's Stage 3 and teenagers who seem to be Fowler's Stage 4. Second, not everyone seems to go through these stages. Fowler's stages may be common or even predominant among American Christians, but not even everyone in that group fits this model. My wife is an example of one such exception. As far as I can tell, she moved smoothly from Stage 3 right past Stage 4 and into Stage 5. In spite of apparently not going through a deconstructive stage, she developed the tentativity and ambiguity-tolerance in religious matters which is characteristic of Stage 5. For as long as I have known her (her early 20s), she has had what Fowler described as "a capacity to see and be in one's or one's group's most powerful meanings, while simultaneously recognizing that they are relative, partial and inevitably distorting apprehensions of transcendent reality."
Third, as UU minister Carl Gregg points out in his review of Fowler's book, spiritual development is less like a conveyer belt and more like spiral, meaning that a person can experience aspects of two stages at once. This was certainly true in my case. I more often felt like I was straddling two of Fowler's stages than standing firmly in any one of them. Even now, while I identify myself as being in Fowler's Stage 5, I have a foot dragging along in Stage 4 behind me.
Another one of the problems with Fowler's linear approach is the temptation it creates to view ourselves as farther along the path than we are and to view other as farther back than they are. When I was given Fowler's book, I would have said that I was transitioning from Stage 4 to Stage 5. Looking back, 10 years later, I would now say that I had (at least) a foot in Stage 3, was straddling Stage 4, and had a toe in Stage 5. And then there is the problem of how one views others. For instance, when I was in the deconstructive Stage 4, it was practically impossible for me to tell the difference between others who were in Stage 3 and Stage 5. They all looked the same to me, because most of them participated in religious community and spoke the language of religious symbols. My default was to "condemn" them all to Stage 3, because I really had no experience of Stage 5 to make sense of other kinds of religious participation. In my case, that meant that I thought I had moved "beyond" my wife when I left the Mormon church, only to find out years later that I was actually "catching up" to her.
Why I Still Like Fowler's Stages
I know there will be some who object to the whole idea of stages of spiritual development because it inevitably leads to comparisons of individuals which can be unflattering and breeds a kind of spiritual elitism. Nobody would want to hear that they are in Stage 3 at mid-life. And those in Stage 4 may resent the suggestion that their hard-fought-for religious independence is not the end of the road. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that there is a general pattern in American spiritual development, which involves a mythologizing phase, a de-mythologizing phase, and a reconstructive phase. Perhaps there would be less stigma attached to the earlier phases if we did not tie them to specific age groups. In any case, Fowler's stages fit my own personal history pretty well.
And in spite of the limitations discussed above, I have still found Fowler's stages to be personally helpful to understanding my own life. When I left the Mormon faith, transitioning from the adolescent Stage 3 stage to the young adult Stage 4, I was hurt and angry. I felt that I had been lied to. I wanted nothing to do with organized religion at all. As I (very) gradually transitioned from Stage 4 to Stage 5, I realized that much of my anger at my religion of origin was really anger that I felt toward myself which I had projected outward. I realized that I was not so much angry that I had been lied to, as I was angry at myself for being deceived (or for lying to myself). Healing from that wound was less about forgiving others, as it was about forgiving myself. And a critical part of forgiving myself was realizing that the adolescent stage of spirituality was normal and healthy. We cannot be born into the world with an adult spirituality, any more than we can be born into the world with an adult body or adult cognitive faculties. (That's not to say that there are not young individuals who are exceptional.) Reading Fowler's Stages of Faith was invaluable in realizing the truth that spirituality is developed over time and forgiving myself essentially for being human. Eventually, it helped me feel more empathy for those for whom the Mormon church was still fulfilling a spiritual function.
Fowler's book also helped me from getting stuck in the spirituality of young adulthood. It would have been easy to get stuck in the negativity of Fowler's Stage 4. Realizing that there was something beyond the deconstructive stage of faith helped me to be open to a re-constructive kind of spirituality that I eventually found in Neo-Paganism. It is something I still am striving toward. Of course, I don't mean to suggest here that Mormonism is necessarily associated with Stage 3 or that Neo-Paganism is necessarily associated with Stage 5. (That's a question for another day.) A person going from Neo-Paganism to Mormonism could till be moving from Stage 3 to Stage 5. It's just the direction it occurred for me. And in the process, Fowler's schema for spiritual development helped me make peace with my past and also gave me an inkling of what I wanted to move toward.
More information on Fowler's stages can be found here and here.
* I use the word "faith" here, not in the sense of belief, but in the sense of one's general relation to religious questions.
For discussion: Has your own religious development followed a similar pattern? Has it followed another pattern? Do you think it is helpful to think of spiritual development in terms of stages? Why or why not?
The Author
John Halstead is a former Mormon, now eclectic Neopagan with an interest in ritual as an art form, ecopsychology, theopoetics, Jungian theory, and the idea of death as an act of creation (palingenesis). He blogs at The Allergic Pagan at Patheos Pagan and Dreaming the Myth Forward at PaganSquare. John currently serves at the managing editor at HP.
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Judy Harrow permalinkJanuary 26, 2014 11:39 am
Wow! As a very long time fan of James Fowler ( I devoted a chapter to his model in my own book, Spiritual Mentoring), I appreciate your clear summary of his ideas and your even more clear reflections upon them.
I even more appreciate your giving me an opportunity to look at them again several years later. Some thoughts came up:
1. I've thought a lot about Fowler's assertion that the growth of individuals within any congregation tend to be limited by the level of the group's clergy. To some extent, this is just tautological, as those who move beyond that level tend also to move on. But still it is a challenge to those of us who presume to lead groups, Pagan or otherwise.
2. Reading your essay, I noticed how well these three stages also map to the classic dialectic of thesis (literal belief), antithesis (rebellion and deconstruction) and synthesis.
3. As a British Traditional Witch, I'm mulling about whether the three stages can also somehow be correlated to the three Degrees of our Tradition.
Again, thanks for this essay. I will be sharing the link with my students.
Judy Harrow
January 26, 2014 5:52 pm
Thanks for this! I've never read Fowler directly, only seen others referring to and building off of his work. It's helpful to have such a clear and concise run-down of his approach, along with some sober reflections on its potential flaws and drawbacks.
A couple thoughts come to mind:
First, like Judy, I found myself wondering if the three-stage model could be mapped to other processes. (The thesis-antithesis-synthesis wasn't one I thought of! Awesome!) What came to mind immediately for me were theories about ritual initiation or rites of passage. On the one hand, you have van Gennep's theory of separation-liminality-reincorporation; on the other, you have Lincoln's enclosure-metamorphosis-emergence. Two sides of the same coin, so to speak. What made me wonder about this in particular is that, when I left Christianity, it was like I could feel in an almost visceral way how I was being "bumped back down" to an earlier stage within this new religious tradition. As a Christian, I think I'd reach a similar place as the one your wife is in (and I really appreciated you including that personal perspective) — which is why I didn't leave Christianity because of any animosity or trauma, but because I simply felt called to a bigger, wilder life outside of the Christian tradition. I actually felt somewhat ashamed when I realized I was having to go through the entire process of mythologizing and deconstructing again as a Pagan, and I had to process that before I felt comfortable even speaking publicly about my polytheism. (Which is why it's been, well, ten damn years and I'm only just now starting to put some of it down in writing!)
This kind of brings me to my second thought, which is — I wonder if thinking about these stages as constituting a process of transition or rite of passage would put them in a more helpful context (and also go to explain why the stages sometimes don't seem to match up with the age groups he assigns them). I'm particularly intrigued by the possibility of pairing this linear approach to spiritual life stages with the work of Bill Plotkin, who adopts a cyclical model based on the four elements/directions placed around a circle. (If you haven't read Plotkin's Nature and the Human Soul, I really recommend it! I'd love to hear your thoughts.) I wonder, for instance, if perhaps people move through a "mini" or truncated version of Fowler's stages at each of the life stage transitions that Plotkin explores — I'm really intrigued by the idea of trying to put those two models into conversation and see what happens. Blending the linear with the cyclical and you end up with a personal favorite of mine: the spiral! ;)
Anyway, just some thoughts. Very interesting post! Thanks again for sharing.
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Open Walls Baltimore 2 comes to Station North this spring and summer
Open Walls Baltimore, the project bringing together local and international street artists to create large murals in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District, is set to bring 15 new works this spring and summer. Artists from as far away as Finland and Peru are coming to the city to paint murals "to produce artistic gateways to Station North, and to challenge artists to tell the story of legacy and revitalization in this central Baltimore neighborhood, which is experiencing renewed vibrancy through the arts," as Station North's website puts it.
The full list of artists working between March and June, once again curated by Baltimore street artist Gaia, features locals Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Nanook, D'Metrius Rice, Ernest Shaw Jr., and Katey Truhn & Jessie Unterhalter. El Decertor of Peru, ECB of Germany, Escif of Spain, LNY of Newark, Logan Hicks of New York, Santtu Mustonen of Finland, and Zbiok of Poland round out the list participants. In addition to the murals, the British parkour group Urban Playground Team will offer free performances and workshops at Penn Station plaza. Everything kicks off with a launch party at the Metro Gallery on March 24 from 6-8 p.m.
"We are building on the success of the original Open Walls Baltimore project that literally transformed an area of our great city and allowed important conversations to take place about integrating art and the arts into a community to provide vitality, renewed strength and pride to the people who live and work there," Ben Stone, Executive Director for Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc. said in a press release, adding, "Our hope is that this project will serve as a catalyst for change, connectivity and urban vibrancy."


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Episode description: Buster uses Muffy's new telescope to try to prove that the UFOs he's been seeing are real, but discovers something even more frightening: a comet headed straight for Earth! When a Latino family moves in next door, Arthur makes a new friend and learns about a different culture—including a Spanish version of Bionic Bunny named Conejitos Mecánicos.
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Top 5 Snow Differences: North Vs. South
Let the snow wars begin.
Northern states receive snow by the feet. Not inches, but feet. Southern states usually receive 1-3 inches, if not less. Of course, this is not always the case. The snow lengths of both the southern and northern regions vary in snow lengths each winter.
With the climate changing, Mother Nature cannot decide among hot, cold, or snowy weather. The amount of snow is never a definite, regardless of what the meteorologist says, until we all stare, peering out our windows and actually watching the snow fall to the ground
Students that live up north still attend school even with snow falling and sticking continually. They must 'plow' through the heaps of snow. Students that live down south find themselves at home from a school cancellation when the snow fall accumulates to just under one inch.
Just witnessing a flurry in the sky makes a southern resident jump for joy. The talk of the day revolves around the snow. People living down south post pictures of the snow and update their statuses regularly. A northerner would have a good laugh at that one.
A southerner can somehow make a snowman with only an inch of snow to work with. A northerner would say, "Another snowman again, no way!" At that point, snow of any kind does not faze a northerner.
Snowfall occurs once or twice down south, whereas up north, snowfall occurs quite frequently on a day to day basis. People go about their daily lives as if zero snow is piled up around them.
Maybe within the next day, the south will accumulate up to a foot of snow (according to weather broadcasts). Highly doubtful, but possible.