by David Hayward | Jul 6, 2015 | David's Letters, I'm okay
You don’t always have to do something. When I left negative beliefs and toxic relationships behind, I realized I was feeling a lot more peaceful. One of the things that religion likes to do is pound it into our heads that we have to change. You have to change the...
by David Hayward | Jun 30, 2015 | David's Letters, I'm okay
This last weekend Lisa and I were invited to a community is Chessetcook, Nova Scotia, to give a talk Saturday night. We have known many of them for years. We were there five years ago. So it was refreshing to see them again. The community meets at the house of John...
by David Hayward | Jun 22, 2015 | David's Letters, I'm okay
Good day my friends. Today I want to talk about compassionate speech. It was inspired by one of our members posting this quote of Domo Geshe Rinpoche: ”There are many who are interested in gender-neutral language, as well as practicing open-ended statements in...
by David Hayward | Jun 16, 2015 | Podcasts
Today’s Meet a Member podcast is with Timothy McPherson, who is married, has 3 sons, and is a Salvation Army officer. There are some pretty interesting twists to his remarkable story! Thanks for being so vulnerable, honest, humble, and kind Tim! If you want to...
by David Hayward | Jun 14, 2015 | David's Letters, I'm confused
Last week, someone in our Facebook group brought up a question about how to deal with family and coming out to them theologically. (*** If you’re not in our Facebook group, please just reply to this letter and ask me to get you in. That’s where a lot of the...