Phillip Eldridge Williams
I was born in Burlington, North Carolina 4/14/1941 to the parents of Royall E. Williams, Senior, and Gena P. Williams the third of six children including three sisters and two brothers. I attended a small private elementary school and high school. After four years of military service, (USMC), I attended for four years at that same school, John Wesley College, receiving a ThB and then an A.B. degree from Guilford College majoring in New Testament Greek. Then from the Duke Divinity School a Master of Divinity. 5/1973. I served in the United Methodist Church local pastorate for 37 years while working with the Boy Scouts of America for 36 years. I was the Conference Scouting Coordinator for six years and received the Silver Beaver award from National 9/15/2003. I retired in 2004 to answer my calling to write.
My first book I was asked to write. Prayer and the Scout Master, The Spiritual Role of the Scout leader/Mentor With Selected Prayers. (See review on website Amazon.com.) My second effort at writing was from a request of my sibling/family entitled Boyhood Impressions, Life on the Creek banks, 50 episodes about growing up on the banks of Buffalo Creek in Greensboro, North Carolina until I entered the military at age 18.
When I resolved that writing was a calling I should consider I weighed heavily the inspiration I received from the story of just how E. T. Seton received his vision that became his vision quest and answer to the Native American Way of being in search of why they are here. The direction my life took from that moment to the next 15 years revolved around what became the title of my major work: This Day… Spiritual Parallels Within Judeo/Christianity, Boy Scouts of America, the Native American, the New Testament church and Quantum Physics . This book This Day, including four volumes (see below) spawned the following books:
- Prayer and the Scoutmaster, The Spiritual Role of the Scout Leader/Mentor With Selected Prayers
- Boyhood Impressions, Life On The Creek banks
- This Day, Spiritual Parallels Within Judeo/Christianity, Boy Scouts of America/Native Americans, New Testament church, and Quantum Physics
- Volume I Spirituality in Parallel
- Volume II
o (A) Chronicles of Spiritual Formation
o (B) Chronicles of Spiritual Formation
- Volume III Spirituality and Consistency
- The Sixth Parallel, The Great Discovery
- Dance Your Own Prayer, The Survival of the Coup Feather
- The Obama Legacy, A Spiritual Analysis
- Books That Should/Must Be Written, The Vision Quest Question
- Aliens, Creatures of a Divine Kind
- Revelation, Eyes to See, Ears to Hear
- All Things Spiritual, The Final Field
This book, All Things Spiritual: The Final Field, is really the summation of what has taken these 15 or so years to feel comfortable with being said what needs to be attempted since the answer is found in the persuasion of one’s vision quest question. These books, are not necessary in order to grasp All Things Spiritual but will certainly be seen as an indispensable part of the story.
These titles are offered here for the purpose of gaining some understanding that is indeed difficult if not impossible to grasp. This may facilitate your willingness to publish any one of these titles when my number of copies have been exhausted. Up until this point in time I have not attempted to market any of my work except for the two first titles by Xlibris.