Name: Greg Smith
Where you live: Naples, FL
What you do as a vocation or avocation? Research, speak and write about education, especially relating to technology and faith. Currently, I work in the Distance Education Department of a private university, serve as the Director of Adult Education in a progressive Protestant church, and write a daily blog about matters of faith that matter.
Your two favorite books: The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others
Your two favorite songs: Somos Uno en Cristo (We’re United in Jesus) and Third Day’s Offering
Why you are interested in spirituality? I understand spiritually as a means of experiencing what it means to be human. In the words of Dr. James Fowler, “ The human calling – which we take to be universal – is to undergo and participate in the widening inclusiveness of the circle of those who count as neighbor, from the narrowness of our familial beginnings toward real solidarity with a commonwealth of being. This calling means movement from the limiting love of those who love us and on whom we are dependent toward the limitless love that comes from genuine identification with the source and center of all being (Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian
Your favorite web sites: to read: www.patheos.com/Religion-
Your hero? Jesus, the one who taught and lived the way of love
A spiritual lesson you hope to learn? contentment
A place in the world where you feel spiritually “connected?” online