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Mosaic Part 6: how the facets co-exist

March 15, 2016 Mosaic of Maturing Spirituality Leave a comment
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So, now that I’ve introduced maturity and explained why I believe development toward maturity would be better described by “facets” (that all co-exist at the same time) rather than “stages” (that one moves through in a consistent order), it’s time for me to explain how this co-existence works. At the […]

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Mosaic Part 5: facets instead of stages (“I’m all the stages!”)

March 5, 2016 Mosaic of Maturing Spirituality Leave a comment
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For many years I had always appreciated and occasionally taught James Fowler’s stages of faith development (and still do). But one day in my late forties, I saw some key elements suddenly fall apart. I thought back to how, in my early twenties when I first read about these stages, […]

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