Beliefnet Columnist
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Dan Wakefield is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter whose best-selling novels "Going All the Way" and "Starting Over" were produced as feature films. He also created the NBC prime-time TV series "James at 15." A documentary film has been produced of his memoir "New York in the Fifties." His nonfiction books on spirituality include "Returning: A Spiritual Journey," "Creating From the Spirit," "The Story of Your Life: Writing a Spiritual Autobiography," "Expect a Miracle," and "How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir."
Wakefield has been the recipient of a Neiman Fellowship in Journalism, the Bernard DeVoto Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Rockefeller Grant for Creative Writing, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught in the writing programs at Boston University, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Emerson College, The Iowa Writers Workshop, and is presently Writer in Residence at Florida International University in Miami.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wakefield began his writing career as a columnist of his high school newspaper, The Shortridge Daily Echo. He also served as sports correspondent for The Indianapolis Star. After graduating from Columbia College in New York City in 1955, he wrote for many national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, and The Atlantic Monthly. He has written many books, including "Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem"; "All Her Children: The Making of a Soap Opera"; "Supernation at Peace and War," which first appeared as the entire issue of the March 1968 Atlantic Monthly; "Expect a Miracle : The Miraculous Things That Happen to Ordinary People"; "Returning : A Spiritual Journey"; and his most recent, "Releasing the Creative Spirit (Skylight Paths)."
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 Columns and articles by Dan Wakefield
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Jesus at Harvard
Jan 21, 2005
The theologian who once said, "God is dead" chronicles years of wrestling with Jesus' teachings at the university.
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Christian Yoga
Dec 4, 2001
In her new book, an Episcopal priest explains how yoga can help Christians feel physically closer to God.
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Who Makes Art?
Aug 17, 2001
Artists once surrendered to the creative Spirit. Now they 'brand their products.'
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Looking for God
Jul 17, 2001
In our highly commercial, secularized world, spiritual direction aims to bring us back to God.
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Spa Spirituality
Jun 1, 2001
This spa regular sees community as the core of his spiritual experience there.
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Many Roads to Recovery
May 31, 2001
While A.A. might be effective for some, there are many other ways to stop abusing alcohol.
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Spirited Pets
Apr 11, 2001
Any pet-lover knows how attuned to emotions animals can be. Now some are saying that our furry friends also have souls.
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God as General Manager
Mar 1, 2001
Does our heavenly father micromanage our lives--and the performance and personnel of sports teams?
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God as Earthquake
Feb 16, 2001
As many saints can testify, religious experiences often shake up life, rather than bring peace and harmony to it.
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Jesus as Artist
Jan 12, 2001
Surprisingly, agnostic sensualist Oscar Wilde admired Christ as a creative force that gave voice to the voiceless.
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Taking It Big
Dec 7, 2000
The spiritual legacy of C. Wright Mills.
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The Great Good Place
Nov 27, 2000
Can a church become what in Spanish is called querencia, 'heart's home'?
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Do Good, Be Poor
Oct 4, 2000
What ever happened to the notion that one can do well by doing good?
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Saintly or Scandalous?
Aug 10, 2000
Thomas Merton's failings help us realize that we are not alone in our struggles with human frailties
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On My Honor
May 24, 2000
A former Eagle Scout says, 'Don't take the scouting experience away from gay boys'
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St. Dorothy
May 15, 2000
Why Dorothy Day should be canonized.
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Soul Food?
May 4, 2000
With all the diet programs out there, heaven only knows what the 'spiritually correct' diet should be
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