by David Hayward | Oct 5, 2013 | Exercises
My cartoon today, iTithe, challenges the legal idea of tithing. But I do believe in generosity. I said, “I believe that when we are generous we live in a more generous universe.” Now that Lisa and I don’t go to church where we used to give...
by David Hayward | Oct 4, 2013 | Feelings
Yesterday was a lovely day so Lisa and I walked down to the river beach and sat while the waves rippled in. We had a heart to heart talk. She’s feeling sad because she doesn’t know how to pray right now. The old comfortable way no longer suffices. She...
by David Hayward | Oct 3, 2013 | Podcasts
Hey everyone! I finally got to interview one of our own members, Jeff Prideaux! What a great guy. We’re trying to keep our podcasts down to 20 minutes and we just about succeeded here. Plus, I found out something I never realized about Jeff until I talked with...
by David Hayward | Oct 2, 2013 | Ideas
One of my most favorite authors, Wendell Berry, writes in Standing By Words: “To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person’s intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good...
by David Hayward | Oct 1, 2013 | Ideas
Some people when they deconstruct their faith and beliefs they can just leave the bible in one fell swoop and never think about it again. Not me. I had to form a new relationship with it over time. Here’s how I look at it now. The bible has three epochs: The...