by Dr. Monty Knight | Apr 20, 2012 | Religion, Culture, and Politics
I received an email recently from an old college friend, an appeal passed on and shared, apparently, among many people. The request was for recipients to “pray for America.” Exclaiming, as it did, that this was our nation’s “last chance” to “save itself.” Not that...
by drmontyknight | Apr 18, 2012 | Religion and Psychology
“She has good ego strength.” When we hear that said of someone, do we consider it a more positive attribute than when we hear it said, “He has a big ego?” Or how about, “She has a fragile ego.” Does that mean she’s...
by drmontyknight | Apr 12, 2012 | Humor
Barbara Bennett, my friend from childhood who lives in St. Louis, sends me lots of interesting stuff. She’s much smarter than I–for that matter, she’s smarter than most people–and she reads so prolifically, she makes me look illiterate (which...
by drmontyknight | Apr 5, 2012 | Religion, Culture, and Politics
The Reverend Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AU) will speak in Charleston on Sunday, April 15, at 5 P.M. at the Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting Street. A question and answer session will follow Mr....
by drmontyknight | Mar 29, 2012 | Group Dynamics
A few years ago I was invited to participate in a particular kind of leadership training program. It wasn’t cheap, the cost to attend, but the invitation appealed to my ego, since those invited included some notable “movers and shakers” in the South...
by drmontyknight | Mar 22, 2012 | Time Management
The second most important lesson I have learned in my life–I was a seminary student, around 1970, when I learned it. I was already over-extended–a full-time student with a full-time job, teaching at a local community college to support myself, my wife and...
by drmontyknight | Mar 15, 2012 | Human Relations
In the Sermon on the Mount in the Christian New Testament–specifically, the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7–Jesus says: “Judge not that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce, so will you also be judged, and the measure you give will be...
by drmontyknight | Mar 7, 2012 | Human Sexuality
A patient/client (or client/patient) and I were having this conversation recently, and he suggested I post a blog on the subject. “That would shake some people up,” he said. Not that I’m particularly interested in “shaking anyone up.”...
by drmontyknight | Mar 1, 2012 | Social Psychology
“You might want to publish a blog on this subject,” a friend wrote recently. “I had attended a play concerning the Holocaust,” she continued. “And afterward, I was conversing with another woman I had known for years in our particular,...
by drmontyknight | Feb 23, 2012 | Religion, Culture, and Politics, Uncategorized
With the February birthdays of both–arguably, our nation’s two greatest Presidents–Washington and Lincoln conflated into a national holiday this past Monday, I found a column by a Charleston (SC) Post and Courier pundit, published that same day,...
