This essay provides a personal reflection on the past, present and future of the modern integration movement. These three lenses provide focus for describing the course of the author's own evolving views concerning five topics deemed to be central to the integrative enterprise: 1) normal curves, 2) invisible things, 3) reductionism and competition, 4) Jesus being real smart; and 5) actual differences vs. turf wars. It is suggested that matters of soul and spirit are integral to understanding the person.
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