Hi peeps! People are often confused about my views about religion. Some think I’m anti-religious. Some think I’m pro-. I’m neither. I hope I’ve come to a healthy place when it comes to my relationship with religion. So I want to talk about the different stages of my...
Letter: free download of eBook “The 5 Stages of Deconstruction”
Happy Sunday my friends! Today’s weekly letter is a simple one. I’m giving you a gift. It’s a free download of my new eBook I’ve put together, with the help of Eric Lawrence, a member of The Lasting Supper. It’s the beautiful printed version of “The Five Stages of...
Letter: How to Deal with Family
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...
Letter: A Quick Way to Self-Approval
So, you are totally confused. Your journey does not make sense. You have difficulty understanding where you are and therefore even greater difficulty in loving yourself and articulating yourself. You’re feeling a mixture of shame, frustration, and maybe even guilt....
Letter: 3 Steps to Take when you’re Misunderstood
I want to talk today about being misunderstood. There have been many people on TLS who have felt misunderstood. I have felt misunderstood. In fact, we are all misunderstood at some time or another. I won’t attempt to describe how someone else felt misunderstood. I am...
Letter: How God Let Me Go
Lisa and I went on a much-needed vacation last week. We haven’t been on vacation since Lisa went back to university seven years ago. We left in a snow storm. I had to use the snowblower to get ourselves out of our driveway to get to the airport. We went to Mexico....
Letter: What do you do with so many opinions about you?
This letter contains an important message about being yourself. I'm eating Lisa's homemade granola and listening to the "Deep Dark Indie" playlist on Shopify. I'm rejoicing that all my kids are going to be home this Christmas starting late tonight… the first time in...
Letter: I affirm your pain during your personal transformation
I've been thinking a lot about the pain of transformation. Like growing pains. I sprouted up very fast as a teenager. It actually physically hurt. Especially in my legs. They say that the greatest stressors in life are things like illness, death of a loved one,...
Letter: It’s your life and you are the builder of it
In 2002, in New Hampshire, I was fired from an international ministry for insubordination. I refused to participate in an enforced repentance that the leader ordered in order to cleanse the "sin in the house" that was adversely affecting book sales. That suddenly left...
Letter: 3 Steps to Changing Your Beliefs
We are changing our beliefs! What I have always tried to do is provide a safe space to do that in. And, if possible, gather people together in order to support one another while going through this experience. I think this is what The Lasting Supper is mostly about. We...
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