Ronald V. Huggins

  I figure there's got to be a parable for life here somewhere. In my dream this morning I was in some city, and I needed to find the bus station to catch a bus to some other city I had to get to. I needed to hurry. So I stopped at a hotel I was passing and asked the concierge for the directions to the bus depot. He told me that we were on 34th street and 12th avenue, and that the bus depot was at 34th street and 34th avenue, in other words 22 blocks away. So I started off in a walking as fast as I could up 34th street in the direction indicated by the concierge. I figured I would keep my eye out for a city bus and catch it if one happened to come by. As I was hurrying along I passed a little artificial pond and slipped and fell in. I wasn't too happy because I was wearing my tweed jacket, but I thought, "No time to worry about that now, I just have to keep going and get to the bus before it leaves!" So I pulled myself out, shook a little of the water out, and

  One-year-out Congratulations to Marcia and Don! A pastor named Tyler Zach, who promotes what he calls the "Gospel Enneagram," wrote a little tract in which he asked: "Let's just get to the heart of the matter and ask the question: If some of the Enneagram’s origins do have occultist roots—should this fact alone be enough for Christians to stop using the Enneagram?" His basic answer is: No, It shouldn't matter. Strange thing is, I was actually encouraged to see this. Why? Well, the reason is that he was responding to Claudio Naranjo's 2010 claim in an interview with E. J. Gold that when he was creating the Enneagram of Personality back in c. 1970, he had relied on automatic writing. In the same interview Naranjo also admitted that he had lied about the enneagram being an ancient teaching (see minutes 1:20-4:20 for both admissions). Zach mentions that Naranjo says he originated the enneagram in the clip but neglects to mention that he had previously li