Good morning my friends. At least it is morning to me. I was just outside to watch a flock of geese fly overhead. It was beautiful and melancholic at the same time. Winter's coming. I've been thinking all week about what I'm going to write about today. That is… I...
Letter: How to Talk to a Religious Person
This first thing to realize when talking with anyone is that it requires cross-cultural communication skills. Let me tell you a story about something that happened to me yesterday: I was taking my dog Abby for a walk. A neighbor (let's call her Sue) was driving by and...
Letter: Let’s Talk About Trust
I still feel like I'm in vacation mode. We had people drop by and stay for a couple of days, so the party continues! Plus my websites were down for a couple of days. That was freaking me out. But all is well now. I've been thinking about trust. There's a lot of...
Letter: The 3 Stages of Progression to Speaking Your Own Language
Good morning my friends. It's been an exhausting week, but I finally saw the completion of my book, The Liberation of Sophia. I started drawing Sophia right after I left the church and completed 59 drawings and meditations 4 years later. There was an overwhelming...
Letter: Do Not Cast Your Pearls Before Swine!
I originally wrote these as two Daily Toasts (remember those?) quite a while ago. But many members responded to them so I wanted to redraft them into a single Weekly Letter for you guys and for any new members that didn't see them. Here it is: You’ve heard the saying...
Letter: The 3 Paradoxical Things I Love About You
As you probably already know, I think about TLS and TLSers a lot. It's not a burden. I enjoy it because I enjoy you guys. We've gone through some rough times. That's only natural. But we're survivors and thrivers and I think we're doing really well. (Just for your...
Letter: Your Roots and Your Fruits
Right from the start I want to say that I am only sharing my perspective from my experience and study. This is my journey I'm sharing. Not yours. However, I am not only a survivor of deconstruction, but a thriver. I've made it! I have travelled the treacherous path....
Letter: Why I Love Your Love for Truth!
I'm going to mention some scripture here. Hold on. It won't last long. One of the most influential passages for me for my teaching career is the one where Jesus sees the people wandering like sheep without a shepherd. He has compassion on them. What did he do? He...
Letter: Learning How to Love Yourself
Here's a simple exercise to practice love. Specifically... How to love others. How to love your loved ones. How to love yourself. So, in a way, this is about kids. An upcoming weekly letter is going to be about what we do with our kids while we deconstruct. But for...
Letter: What Do You Do With All You Went Through?
I claim that you wouldn't be who you are unless you were who you were. I also claim that you wouldn't be where you are unless you were where you were. (If you haven't had your coffee yet you might want to read those again.) Even though many people talk about how we...
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