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...
Exercise: 44 minute Documentary “I Escaped a Cult”
I just watched a powerful documentary, "I Escaped a Cult", available on YouTube, as well as Netflix. *** Trigger Warning: very honest and descriptive, including rape, sexual abuse, and explicit about mind-control techniques. I found it personally disturbing because...
Letter: How to Find and Use Your Own Voice
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir. You guys are amazing at speaking your mind. The level of honesty, vulnerability and openness and your skill at articulating complicated, intense and deep thoughts and emotions amaze me every day. I know we are seeing almost...
Letter: The 3 Battlegrounds of Deconstruction You Must Not Surrender
I want to write to you today about the three battlegrounds of deconstruction that you cannot surrender. (This reminds me of a totally unrelated story. Many years ago after we went through a horrendous church split, my wife went to see Francis Frangipane who authored...
Letter: Deep Thoughts a Honey Bee Evoked
Do you ever get the feeling your life is like the movie "The Matrix"? If you haven't seen The Matrix, it is about the true, real world versus the false, controlled world. The red or the blue pill. The challenging or the secure. You either live in one or the other. You...
Letter: What Do You Do if Someone Won’t Forgive You?
I genuinely hurt a good friend many years ago. I regretted it as soon as I did it. He hasn't really forgiven me. I've made every attempt to repent and repair, but it changed our relationship. We rarely, if ever, see each other anymore. There have been many people I've...
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: What Do You Do After a Spiritual Tsunami Hits?
Right now I'm sitting looking over the river and drinking a Sapporo beer. Yum! What do we do after a tsunami hits? What do we do after the devastation of deconstruction of our faith, our beliefs and our religion? I was inspired by a video series I watched on YouTube...
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....
