Spiritually Incorrect

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?

Acknowledgments

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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

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