Bill McDonald's Newsletter - Archive

How to Speak to a New Year Like This One

I receive a weekly online publication, Maria Popova’s The Marginalian (founded in 2006) In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective:A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times.https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/21/reflection/

From Darkness to Hope

I need to share that in writing under this title, that I am not just honoring the wisdom of the seasons of Nature. I want

“In” Love

Some years ago, when I was reading many of the works of Charles Williams,1 I came across a brief theatrical interlude between Mary & Joseph: Mary:  “Joseph

Making Decisions

Sometimes, clients will come to me to help make “an important decision.” Over the years, I’ve discovered and developed a protocol for making decisions, that

Jacob’s Wound / God’s Wounding

One of my favorite counseling stories from the Old Testament is the account of Jacob wrestling with God “by the ford of the river Jabbok.”

Pacifism or Passivity

Let me begin with a story I’ll frequently share with clients. The Old Monk and the Cobra Somewhere in the Indian subcontinent, there’s a village.

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