Tag Archives: The Different Drum

Peck on the My Lai Massacre

Posted on May 16, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

In this post, I’d like to talk about M. Scott Peck’s discussion of the My Lai Massacre in his book, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.  Wikipedia defines the My Lai Massacre as: “the Vietnam War … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Alienation, Yet Extroversion

Posted on May 3, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

I got a lot read of M. Scott Peck’s The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace.  A significant part of this book overlaps with Peck’s Further Along the World Less Traveled, in the sense that Peck discusses the four spiritual … Continue reading →

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The Basement Group

Posted on May 2, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

In my latest reading of The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, M. Scott Peck talks about the Basement Group, a group that gathered together once a week to discuss spirituality. In Peck’s story, the Basement Group started with a … Continue reading →

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A Place Where People Can Be

Posted on April 26, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

I started M. Scott Peck’s The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace.  I’d like to use as my starting-point something that Peck says on page 103, as he describes a hypothetical group that has entered into a state of community: … Continue reading →

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