Geoffrey Holsclaw

Building a GRASSROOTS CHRISTIANITY: Growing Faith for Everyday People

Neuroscience and Spiritual Formation: Shifting to “Embodied Faith” Site

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Post date March 21, 2024
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Welcome. So glad you found me. For the last year or so I’ve been shifting my writing to EMBODIED FAITH, which is connecting spiritual formation and relational neuroscience. More about me below… Short Bio: Geoff Holsclaw (PhD) is cohost of the Embodied Faith podcast, which seeks a neuroscience-informed spiritual formation. Geoff is also leading a DMIN in […]

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Is the mental health crisis because…

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date March 14, 2023
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Question: Is the mental health crisis because: 1) our culture is more aware/open about mental health issues so more people are getting help, overwhelming current resources? Or, 2) our culture has raised the bar of social success so high that just about everyone feels they are failing (causing mental health issues needing attention)? I generally […]

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On Distorting Sex, Marriage, the Gospel (Live Q&A w/ Dr. Beth Felker Jones)

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date March 8, 2023
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Like Jesus, we need to overturn the tables of those peddling gender hierarchies within the temple of our bodies.

Tags body, God, gospel, neuroscience, Salvation, sex, theology, theology of the body

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The Irony of Progressive Critiques of Revival

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date February 22, 2023
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Is Christianity essentially individualistic or social? Is following Jesus personal or communal? Progressives can’t decide.

Tags asbury revival, Christianity, discipleship, God, gospel, Jesus, revival, social gospel

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Technically right, but relationally wrong

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date February 6, 2023
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Being “technically right” is only half of what is going on.It is only half of what counts as what “really happened”.

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Can you want to want God?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date February 2, 2023
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I hate being told what I “want” by someone else. So why does St. Ignatius of Loyola keep telling us to “ask for what I want”?

Tags embodied faith, ignatian spirituality, Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Formation

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Is Christian Sexuality Repressive?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date January 25, 2023
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What if the traditional Christian sexual ethic (as we see in early monasticism) isn’t oppressive or repressive? What if it was liberating?

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Holsclaw Ministry Update

We’ve always had a dual calling in our ministry: one in the local church, and the other to the church more broadly. That’s changing a little.

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Is lack of certainty really maturity?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date January 16, 2023
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There is a mistaken view that, in our spiritual journey, losing our certainty equals gaining in our spiritual maturity.

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The Cure, not the Cause, of Suffering

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date November 21, 2022
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Let us never say that God is the cause of our suffering. But let us always say, hope, and know that God (the Father sending the Son in the power of the Spirit) IS THE CURE.