You look at your spouse and say, "I don't know you anymore. You've changed." Your spouse looks back at you and says, "Actually, I think you're the one who has changed." I'm going through another major spiritual shift right now. It's not fun, but necessary. This is how...

"The Cloud of Unknowing": A Christian classic. Unknowing. Yep. That's me. Could that be you? An interesting thing happened to me the other day. I was talking with someone who used to go to my church that I pastored. I was talking about really missing teaching, and...

My wife Lisa picked up a book many years ago that she still highly values by Sister Joyce Rupp, a member of the Servite community, "Praying Our Goodbyes". A common theme in all of our lives is grief. We have all had to say goodbye, we've all experienced loss, we all...

The literal translation of the Greek word for church, "ekklesia", is "called out". It's been bashed over my head many times that what this means is Christians are called out of the world and into the church. It's been used to coerce me into faithful church membership...

I try to run at least 3 times a week… Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I try to do a long run on Saturday. Today I ran 12.5K in the cold, pouring rain. It felt great. To me it isn't just physical exercise, but spiritual as well. I don't take my cell phone. I run alone....

We have launched out on our own. But we miss the group. When the earliest Christians left the synagogue, they left en masse with some leadership who helped them organize and gather in homes. This was the beginning the the church. The Protestants left the church en...

We had our potluck last night with Phyllis Mathis. We had a good turnout. And there were others streaming the event as we went. Google changed some things last week and we started late because I had to get used to the new format. Plus I was abruptly kicked off after...

I received a letter from one of our members this week. This is the problem I love addressing. This is what TLS is all about. Even yesterday another member asked me basically the same question. So this reality is real. I'm just going to copy a part of her letter, used...

Our Potluck hangout yesterday with @rachel and @happy was wonderful. It was great talking to these amazing friends of mine about "Spirituality and Love". Yes, we talked about their love lives! After we spoke, I realized that the bravery of these two women were very...

I've read that the ancient Buddhists had an interesting meditation practice. They would find a human corpse and meditate before it in order to perceive the meaning of life, to become aware of the endless cycle of suffering, to overcome their fear of death, and to...