Every journey takes a first step.  If you wish to follow my journey towards “Whole Person Whole Life”, here you can begin understanding the foundations I believe can guide you in joining me. These first steps explain these foundations so that, as you continue with me on the journey, you can understand my later approaches to different contemporary issues and topics.  Return here as needed to remind yourself of where I began if a future essay seems to presuppose some principle or viewpoint without full explanation.  Leave questions and comments so we can dialogue and grow together in pursuing “Whole Person Whole Life”.  I look forward to such mutually edifying dialogue which spurs us towards God-glorifying lives in community.

Doc-sy (Doxy) — Welcome to the “Doc-sy” series, as in OrthoDOXY (right doctrine), where you will find short essays aimed at truth, especially truths pertaining to whole person health.  These essays arise from the life of a “Doc” practicing medicine while also leading my own family through a crazy world….

Pracsy (Praxy) — Welcome to the “Prac-sy” series, where you will find short essays aimed at living out truth in applying it, in other words the “Prac-tical” side.  These essays arise from practice of life in our fallen world and the practice of medicine with chronically ill patients living through major health storms….

Heads and Hearts — We live life deeper than physical reality as we are more than the sum of our physical parts.  More than just the biochemical synthesis of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and minerals, we are thinking and feeling beings. 

Gather — We were created for relationship. Though man may live alone on an island, we are not made to be a lone island. It was not good for Adam to be alone (Genesis) so Go provided Eve and He visited them in the garden. …