Author: Joseph Perez

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I suppose the main reason that I accepted a calling to ministry in 2018 is that I had grown weary of making a living primarily for myself and being too self-centered. I worked in business in a less-than-thrilling occupation. And I spent several hours a week poring over social media sites, posting my thoughts in […]

Henry David Thoreau famously said, “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” Perhaps Thoreau would have not have approved of something I feel that I must do. I am going to acquire new clothing specifically designed for clergy, and then establish rules for myself about how, […]

To whom should I address this article, one of the first published on my new Integral Ministry blog and the recently overhauled The Integralist Newsletter? There are three different audiences I want to speak to over time: Today, I want to address a group that I call the Post-Progressive religionists, who are people that are […]

I created my first website for a financial business in 1997 in HTML 1.0, working with back-end developers to move the company’s entire inventory to the Web. It was a side project, and I didn’t see myself becoming a programmer. Just for fun, I built another one, a celebrity fan page, in 1999, on the […]

As many of you know or have presumed, I have a predilection for Integral Spirituality that goes beyond the ordinary. About 30 years ago, I studied comparative religion and philosophy as an undergraduate and took courses alongside Harvard Divinity School students. Later I dropped out of Divinity School in Chicago, and I never thought I […]