Articles from the Today column

The following articles are from the Today column, "Innerweave: The Wholeness Story,” by Dr. Wil Alexander, Founding Director of the Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness at Loma Linda University.

1. March 27, 1997: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/tdymar27.htm
2. July 23, 1997: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/tdyjuly23c.htm#innerweave
3. August 20, 1997: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/tdyaug8d.htm#innerweave
4. October 8, 1997: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/oct8/tdyoct8com.htm
5. December 3, 1997: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/dec3/wholeness.htm
6. December 17, 1997: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/dec17/wholeness.htm
7. January 29, 1997: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jan29/wholeness.htm
8. February 12, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/feb12/wholeness.htm
9. March 12, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar12/wholeness.htm
10. March 26, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar26/wholeness.htm
11. April 9, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/apr9/wholeness.htm
12. May 21, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/may21/wholeness.htm
13. June 4, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/june4/wholeness.htm
14. September 24, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/sept98/wholeness.htm
15. October 8, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/oct98/wholeness.htm
16. November 5, 1998: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov98/wholeness.htm
17. February 5, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/feb99/wholeness.htm
18. March 11, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar99/wholeness.htm
19. March 25, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar25_99/wholeness.htm
20. April 8, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/apr99/wholeness.htm
21. May 13, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/may99/wholeness.htm
22. June 3, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jun99/wholeness.htm
23. July 29, 1999 : http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/july99/wholeness.htm
24. August 26, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/aug99/wholeness.htm
25. September 23, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/sept99/wholeness.htm
26. October 21, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/oct2199/wholeness.htm
27. November 4, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov4-99/wholeness.htm
28. December 23, 1999: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/dec2399/wholeness.htm
29. January 27, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jan2700/wholeness.htm
30. March 2, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar0200/wholeness.htm
31. March 23, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar2300/wholeness.htm
32. April 6, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/apr0600/wholeness.htm
33. May 4, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/may0400/wholeness.htm
34. June 22, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jun2200/wholeness.htm
35. July 27, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/july2700/wholeness.htm
36. September 21, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/sept2100/wholeness.htm
37. October 5, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/oct0500/wholeness.htm
38. November 2, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov0200/wholeness.htm
39. November 30, 2000: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov3000/wholeness.htm
40. September 20, 2001: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/sept2001/other.html#5
41. October 4, 2001: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/oct0401/innerweave.html
42. October 18, 2001: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/oct1801/other.html#2
43. November 8, 2001: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov0801/other.html#1
44. November 29, 2001: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov2801/other.html#1a
45. December 20, 2001: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/dec2001/other.html#2
46. January 10, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jan1002/other.html#1
47. January 24, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jan2402/other.html#3
48. February 7, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/feb0702/other.html#1
49. March 7, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar0702/other.html#1
50. July 25, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jul2502/other.html#5
51. September 19, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/sept1902/wholeness.html
52. October 10, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/oct1002/other.html#5

Innerweave: The Wholeness Story
Each year about this time, the Faculty of Religion full-time faculty meets in a cabin overlooking Lake Arrowhead for their annual fall colloquium. The morning is spent in retreat fashion thinking of ways to deepen personal spirituality, in preparation for helping students who come to Loma Linda University to deepen theirs.
This year the sharing discussion centered around two articles, one by Mark S. Burrows, professor of the history of Christianity at Andover Newton Theological School titled "To Taste With The Heart," on the deep reading of Scripture; the second article is one written by Robert Mulholland, professor of New Testament at Asbury Seminary, on ways of reading Scripture.
Both articles are concerned with how we listen for "God's word" as found in the Bible. Mark Burrows appeals for a listening beyond reading for information to a more transformational reading as the reader listens with the heart, with all that is within us spiritual, as well as intellectual. Robert Mulholland offers a way to do this by harkening back to a method used early in Christian tradition, namely lectio divina, 'spiritual reading."
The method suggested, and reiterated here is as follows:
Silencio—"time given to silence the grasping, controlling, manipulating dynamics of our being." Just be quiet for a few minutes before you read.
Lectio—reading a chosen text with intentional openness…"in which we can hear the voice of God speaking deep wholeness into our life," rather than trying to merely gain control of the text through reading for information intellectually only.
Meditatio—pausing to think about what we hear as we read, allowing God, by His Spirit, "to discover what God is saying to us at those points of our being where we are not yet what God wants us to be, and, further, what we can become in Him."
Oratio—this is our response to what we read and hear that affects our lives, a deep cry of our heart to God…it is "characterized by integrity…it is the honest expression of our thought, feeling, and desire to God, the outpouring of deep speaking unto deep."
Contemplatio—"this is an active yielding of ourselves to God, waiting in stillness, communing without words, pliable in God's hands and at His timing, responsive to whatever He chooses to give us, impress us with, or do with us. It moves beyond the time of reading, meditating, praying into the ebb and flow of our daily lives…as we seek to yield ourselves to the transforming presence of the Spirit."
Incarnatio—growing out of the above listening and responding experience our life begins to be shaped more and more by openness and obedience to God, and His Word. The shaping is not for us alone, what happens in us works itself out in sharing of our lives with others in saving, healing, loving ways. Those near us will note the difference, and will be attracted to God through us.
The above is not intended to be the final answer on how to listen to the Word of God in the Bible. Because so few seem to spend time with the Bible it is offered as a way of getting back to the basics in spirituality which can make one's life so much richer and fruitful.

53. November 21, 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov2102/other.html#3
54. December 19. 2002: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/dec1902/other.html#3
55. March 6, 2003: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar0603/sm.html#1
56. March 20, 2003: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar2003/sm.html#3
57. September 18, 2003: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/sep1803/other.html#1
58. November 6, 2003: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/nov0603/other.html#2
59. January 22, 2004: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/jan2204/other.html#2
60. March 4, 2004: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/mar0404/other.html#1
61. May 13, 2004: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/may1304/llu.html#3
62. August 19, 2004: http://www.llu.edu/pages/news/today/aug1904/ahsc.html#1
63. October 7, 2004: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=43
64. November 4, 2004:

65. December 30, 2004:

66. February 10, 2005

67. February 24, 2005

68. March 10, 2005

 

69. April 7, 2005

70. June 9, 2005

 

71. September 1, 2005: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=86
72. September 22, 2005: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=121
73. November 10, 2005: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=144
74. December 1, 2005: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=172
75. December 15, 2005: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=190
76. February 9, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=363
77. February 23, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=378
78. March 9, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=400
79. March 23, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=430
80. April  6, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=532
81. April 20, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=593
82. May 25, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=677
83. July 20, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=862
84. August 24, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=904
85. October 5, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=958
86. November 16, 2006: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1034
87. January 29, 2007: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1163
88. March 26, 2007: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1141
89. October 15, 2007: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1349
90. October 29, 2007: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1379
91. November 12, 2007: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1369
92. April 14, 2008: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1519
93. April 28. 2008: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1624
94. June 30, 2008: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.page?id=1605


95. October 27, 2008:

96. December 8, 2008

97. February 23, 2009