Sometimes things seem so surreal. The last church I pastored, a Vineyard church (the one pictured here), just closed its doors and sold all assets, including the building, all the people have dispersed, and the pastor I’d left in charge moved away. Gone. All of it....
Letter: How to handle your secret identity
HOW TO HANDLE YOUR SECRET IDENTITY I’ve noticed lately in our private Facebook group that many of us are dealing with the fear of coming out to our families, friends, and acquaintances. When we change our beliefs, our faith, our religion, or lose them altogether, many...
Letter: Why I Still Call The Lasting Supper a “Safe Space”
Hi everyone! Can you hear me buried underneath all of this snow? Almost all of the time, The Lasting Supper goes along just great. Not just goes along, but thrives with awesome interactions. I’m almost always impressed with the quality of people and conversations in...
Letter: How come? I come by canoe. How you come?
I compare our journeys of leaving the church, or changing our minds, or deconstructing our faith, to taking a canoe down a river. Sometimes there are very smooth times when you hardly even have to paddle. All you have to do is keep your paddle in the water and make...
Letter: We are like Pen Pals for Life!
Hi guys! Today I spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Church in town. There was a small group there… about 20 people. I gave a slide show presentation on “Questions are the Answer: Questions as Tools for Personal Growth”. It’s the topic of my book that I’m working on...
Letter: A Free Gift of Sophia “Trapped”
I've been very busy working on my book. I'm also suffering from a terrible coughing cold this weekend. I've been trying to write a weekly letter to you, but nothing is working right now. So I hope that this gift to you will suffice for now. (I will send a letter this...
Letter: Here’s to being ourselves in 2015!
Happy New Year my friends. I'm going to try to keep this letter a short one. I'm still recovering from the holidays. All three of our children were home and all we did was eat, drink, smoke, listen to music, make music, talk, watch movies, and caught a few hours sleep...
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 want to tell you a little secret
I'm looking out over the river I live on. It's called the Kennebacasis. It comes from the Mi'kmaq word meaning "little long bay place". It's a 95 kilometers long tidal river, beautiful and wide and running deep. It is full of living beings… anything from harbor seals...
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,...
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