About the Faith Seeking Understanding Blog
Faith Seeking Understanding is the website and blog for Anselm Ministries. The blog will address issues related to the topics of: addiction and recovery, counseling issues, and thinking God’s thoughts. Anselm’s Archives contains longer, informative articles in the same subject areas. The material in the Archives is available without cost. I plan to periodically revise some of these articles, add new ones and retire older ones as time goes on. Go and see what interests you in Anselm’s Archives.
I hope the blog will be an ongoing conversation between considerate, honest, and courteous people. The issues I plan to blog about will typically be within counseling, thinking God’s thoughts, and addiction and recovery. Each of these areas is an important one to me personally, as you can see in my personal biography.
You can find links to websites I’ve thought were interesting and helpful to me personally under the Recommended Sites.
About the Author
Hi, my name is Chuck Sigler and there are a few things you should know about me. I love helping people use their faith to grow in their understanding of God, with a special focus on issues of addiction and other problems in living.
My starting point for understanding the world around me is my faith in Christ. I have a passion to encourage and disciple other followers of Christ to apply their faith more consistently in their lives, which led me to establish Anselm Ministries in 2004. Since I became a professional counselor in 1978, I have worked primarily with substance abusers to help them establish abstinence from drugs and alcohol and to then live a lifestyle that supports that abstinence.
These activities have often entwined in my life, and I expect they will do so here in this website and blog. Two outgrowths of this cross breeding have been my interest in the spiritual-religious distinctions in its Twelve Steps, and a growing reservation with the overmedication of psychiatric “disorders.” I don’t believe it is “unchristian” to take these medications, but in many cases I believe it is unwise and not needed. You will find that I discuss these topics here as well.
For a short while after I made a commitment to Christ, I thought that such a life change would ask me to check my mind at the door of the church. I soon realized that faith in Christ was more like the wind of His Spirit breathing new life into all that I knew instead of closing and locking my mind from all outside knowledge.
Several years later I discovered the writings of Anselm of Canterbury, who said: “Grant that I may taste by love what I apprehend by knowledge, that I may feel in my heart what I touch through the Spirit.” This resonated with my sense of how faith in Christ should renew and expand my understanding of the universe around me. So it seemed quite natural to call this website and blog Faith Seeking Understanding—a phrase I shamelessly borrowed from Anselm.