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Uncovering Your Path: Spiritual Reflections for Finding Your Purpose
From an Ivy-League university chaplain comes a profound collection of spiritual reflections designed for people everywhere, including recent college graduates, looking to find their "way" and their "why."
"Who am I?", "What is my purpose?", and "What should I do with my life?" are questions that all of us find ourselves asking at some point or another. In this deeply transformative and lyrical book, Charles "Chaz" Lattimore Howard offers a helpful guide as we venture to answer these questions for ourselves, inviting us to slow down, to actually walk the journey of life, and to allow our path to reveal itself to us. From an enlightening conversation with a Jain college student about the principle of non-violence to a heartwarming episode coaching basketball to an anxious school-aged child, Chaz shares how everyday moments can help you discern your purpose in the universe. Bolstered with poignant anecdotes that follow Chaz’s journey as a priest, professor, student, parent, spouse, social justice advocate, and religious leader, Uncovering Your Path will fill you with renewed vigor, inspire introspection, and encourage you to find your place in God's world.
"Who am I?", "What is my purpose?", and "What should I do with my life?" are questions that all of us find ourselves asking at some point or another. In this deeply transformative and lyrical book, Charles "Chaz" Lattimore Howard offers a helpful guide as we venture to answer these questions for ourselves, inviting us to slow down, to actually walk the journey of life, and to allow our path to reveal itself to us. From an enlightening conversation with a Jain college student about the principle of non-violence to a heartwarming episode coaching basketball to an anxious school-aged child, Chaz shares how everyday moments can help you discern your purpose in the universe. Bolstered with poignant anecdotes that follow Chaz’s journey as a priest, professor, student, parent, spouse, social justice advocate, and religious leader, Uncovering Your Path will fill you with renewed vigor, inspire introspection, and encourage you to find your place in God's world.
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February 20, 2025
This produced mixed feelings. On one hand, Howard is passionate about helping students and feels a noble stewardship towards his chaplaincy that is both admirable and honorable. As someone who worked in campus ministry for twelve years, I appreciate and commend his service. He also writes well with short, quick-paced chapters that move the reader forward.
However, there are two significant issues I can’t overlook. First, likely because of his attachment to the university, Howard moves beyond endorsing a multi-faith environment in favor of promoting an interfaith approach as superior. This may seem slight but the difference is significant. Multi-faith means different religions can differ dramatically yet co-exist. Interfaith means all religions share truth and ultimately lead to the same path. The former is a way to hold vastly different convictions in respectful tension. The latter is not a way to balance convictions but is itself its own religion.
Second, Howard’s two most important messages to the reader are love yourself and have the courage to be who you truly are. Again, like his interfaith emphasis, this is completely compatible with our current cultural moment but diametrically opposed to the message of Scripture.
The death and resurrection of Jesus did not take place so people could love themselves and find the courage to follow their hearts or express themselves. While we were sinners, Christ died for us. God made Him who had no sin, to become sin for us, so in Him we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Jesus lived the life we could not live and died the death we deserved in our place to make us right and give us peace with God.
Because no one else (Buddha, Muhammad, Paulo Coelho, or any other spiritual guide he quotes) has done this, Jesus stands alone as unique and supreme.
However, there are two significant issues I can’t overlook. First, likely because of his attachment to the university, Howard moves beyond endorsing a multi-faith environment in favor of promoting an interfaith approach as superior. This may seem slight but the difference is significant. Multi-faith means different religions can differ dramatically yet co-exist. Interfaith means all religions share truth and ultimately lead to the same path. The former is a way to hold vastly different convictions in respectful tension. The latter is not a way to balance convictions but is itself its own religion.
Second, Howard’s two most important messages to the reader are love yourself and have the courage to be who you truly are. Again, like his interfaith emphasis, this is completely compatible with our current cultural moment but diametrically opposed to the message of Scripture.
The death and resurrection of Jesus did not take place so people could love themselves and find the courage to follow their hearts or express themselves. While we were sinners, Christ died for us. God made Him who had no sin, to become sin for us, so in Him we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Jesus lived the life we could not live and died the death we deserved in our place to make us right and give us peace with God.
Because no one else (Buddha, Muhammad, Paulo Coelho, or any other spiritual guide he quotes) has done this, Jesus stands alone as unique and supreme.
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