free "field walk" download
First of all , I sent you all my personal Sunday lap-letter titled "Important Developments". Take a moment to read it. Thanks! Would you like a free copy of this painting? CLICK HERE to download a print-quality copy to print on nice paper and hang on your wall, print...
Saturday Spiritual Supplement: control
For this morning's Saturday Spiritual Supplement, please go to nakedpastor's post today on "The Most Effective Means of Control". Check out the cartoon. Read the post. I am sure it will mean something to many of you. It might bring some clarity to the confusing nature...
Know-Nun: I was a nun…
I was a nun. I lived in a zen buddhist community for about 7 years. It was the first place that I ever felt like I fit in. Deciding to become a nun was an easy dicision. I knew if I became a nun it would please my teacher. At that time I had put him on a very high...
renatus: In a nutshell
Hi, My name is René Lorent, in this is my story. Since i can remember i've always been searching for more then was seemingly there, as kid from about 10 years old, i've had 'moments' that were .. different.I did not know this at that time, being a kid nobody probably...
no need to rush
Don't let anyone rush your grief! If you've left the church, that's heavy! Grieve it. Feel it to the full. Go ahead! Don't deny that it hurts. Then bawl your eyes out once in a while. Get angry. Get frustrated. Think about going back then change your mind again. Get...
labels
A while ago on nakedpastor I wrote a post entitled labels are the problem. It was interesting the reaction I got to that one. Then someone forwarded me the link to this video of the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson pretty much saying the same thing. I'm convinced...
Saturday Spiritual Supplement: funeral
Today's Saturday Spiritual Supplement is a very simple one. But it is also very powerful. At least I found it so. Years ago I was "between churches" as a pastor and working as a carpenter. It was providing income but I wasn't happy. One day, at a conference, I spoke...
freebie friday: print of redbird friends
Good morning guys. Much love! So today's Freebie Friday. Stephanie from Thomas Nelson Publishers contacted me to tell me they saw my cartoon yesterday and liked it. So she offered to let me give away 3 of Rachel's books. I give away all kinds of books from across the...
askandembla: Catholic, pentecostal, interdenominational, baptist, agnostic, attracted to buddhist principles
I guess the benefit of having been 'around' the church circuit is that you come to see that everyone has a "way" of expressing their spirituality. I searched high & low for truth. It started when, upon my eve of my confirmation in the Catholic Church, and under...
