Just in Case: This is our Welcome Newsletter with Free Gift
Welcome to The Lasting Supper! Welcome to The Lasting Supper where you can help yourself! I'm so glad you decided to join us. We are a very active community with over 300 members so far. The community itself provides so many resources as well as mutual support for...
A Changing Picture
(I'm never sure how to cross-post from my blog to here. Bear with me as I try something a bit different.) I’ve been reading a Brian McLaren book, Church On The Other Side. McLaren is a fairly progressive Christian, keen to help church-goers and churches to stop...
Letter: Sometimes Pain is a Good Thing
I've been thinking about pain… most recently this morning when I ran 6K in the cold snow and ice. I wanted to share with you guys why I think pain is sometimes a good thing. Now, to be clear, pain is sometimes a signal that something is being violated. You've all...
Religious/Spiritual Life History – Childhood – Sacraments Revisited Part I
This is a mini-memoir describing and focusing on the process, deconstruction and remaining journey of my religious and spiritual life as I have experienced it in the 51 years I have inhabited this planet. This life of mine is a meandering and conflicting story, a sort...
Exercise: Your #1 Book of ALL TIME
I know we've talked about books before. You can search "books" on the main site and it will take you to our previous discussions. But I don't think I've asked you this question: What is the #1 book of all time that totally blew your mind, broke your heart, changed...
David Hayward, Women’s Stories, and Me
So...lucky enough to have a Skype conversation with David today. Always invigorating. Always challenging. Always reminds me that I'm sane. I'm grateful. We caught up. We shared stories. We commiserated. We talked of our endless desires, his and mine. Mine? To somehow...
short video about the 3 TLS groups
I did a short video today that describes the three basic groups I've discerned on The Lasting Supper. It is a generalization, so it's simple in hopes of helping us understand the dynamics of our community. I've been in all three groups and am bound to be again. But...
Why I am here and where am I going?
I joined Lasting Supper to continue my spiritual journey and to find an accepting community within which to do so. Not knowing exactly how to begin, I’ve been reading other’s posts and thinking a lot about what I wanted to say. So in trying to decide how to start I...
passive aggressive or not
I often hear someone talking about a leader in their church being passive aggressive. One example from a while ago was when the pastor was obviously talking about certain people in the church in his sermon, but he didn't name names. And he used the bible to criticize...
