Letter: 3 lies your ex wants you to believe
I'm not talking about your romantic or marital ex. I'm talking about your ex-church. Now, before I begin, I want to clarify a couple of things: These can apply even in existing relationships (your partner or church now). These are not all the lies, but a few of them...
exercise: the emotional boundaries you need
This is a really good article about emotional boundaries for work. But they can apply to family, friends, and church as well. It even applies to TLS! Here's a chart: Read the entire article: CLICK HERE
Exercise: Embrace your heresy, embrace your heretic!
This is a very simple exercise that I find myself doing every once in a while. It's become a kind of marker of where I am compared to where I've been and where I may be going. Here it is: What is one thing you believed 5 years ago that you now no longer believe?...
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...
Who really knows?
I find it as difficult to believe that the origins of life and the universe came about via the understandings of a reductionist/materialist pov as I do that there must be one specific notion of deity of some kind to which all owe their existence and ultimate provision...
Forgive me TLS, for I have sinned. Will you hear my confession?
I know. That's a really dramatic title. But I seriously would like to make my confession. Will you hear it? We had an incident in our Facebook group this weekend. Some conflict. What was really frustrating for me was we were in the middle of the post-tropical storm...
Exercise: How to refute criticisms you’ve received!
Here's an exercise that you might find helpful. One of the things we all confront when we decide to walk our own path, forge our own trail, or live our own lives, is criticism from others. Sometimes it is intentionally mean to hurt us. But other times it is just the...
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...
Exercise: dive into the intellectual deep end
Something I do that keeps me feeling alive is to read a book that is over my head. Right now I'm reading the middle-ages German mystic, Meister Eckhart's sermons and writings. Wow! There are TONS of books out there that linger in the shallow end of the pool. Tons!...
