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: How to Deconstruct with your Kids
Happy Easter my fellow TLSers! I'd been looking forward to working on this letter and sending it to you this morning. Many people have been asking me to write about this issue. Obviously it is an important one that occupies many of our minds and evokes concern in our...
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: Deconstruction and Moral Confusion
One of the things I experienced when I left the church was moral confusion. I think this is something to be expected during the deconstruction of our religion, beliefs or faith. Like I've said before, for the first year after leaving the ministry and the church I was...
Letter: Deconstruction and Loneliness
In last Sunday's weekly letter I issued a gentle warning about how deconstruction can affect your relationships. So I want to develop this topic a little further to talk about how, even though you might be in relationships with family, friends or partners, you may...
Letter: Let My Issue a Warning about the Dangers of Deconstruction
Hello my friends. Before I begin, I would just like to thank the 76 TLSers who completed the survey. Some very important things came to light and I'm going to be implementing changes in an attempt to meet your needs and fulfill your desires for The Lasting Supper. The...
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...
Letter: Mundis’ Prayer
Having grown up in a Christian home and having spent so many years in the church, including the ministry, I came out of the other end of it with very unhealthy attitudes about money and business. It didn't help that I left the ministry literally bankrupt… in more ways...
Letter: I Went to Church Dressed in my own Paradigm
I went to church this morning. It is a Vineyard church. The last church I pastored was a Vineyard. Very laid back. We know the pastor of this church and many in his congregation. We are friends. I visit there once in a while because, well, it's safe. He is completely...
