by David Hayward | Jan 9, 2020 | David's Letters, I'm okay
Hello my TLS family! I read this earlier today from the book I mentioned in our Facebook group (if you’re not in the group let me know and we’ll get you in there!), “The Courage to be Disliked”: “… in Adlerian psychology, self-reliance as an individual and cooperation...
by David Hayward | Aug 18, 2019 | David's Letters, I'm okay
WHY TLS IS DIFFERENT I’m not saying there aren’t other groups out there like TLS. I’m just saying I don’t know of any. I think it’s because our core value is that we entrust each person to their own journeys… whether we call them spiritual or otherwise (when I use the...
by David Hayward | Nov 28, 2018 | David's Letters, I'm okay
One of the things I came to learn over time as a pastor is that when you give people space, they will heal themselves. Some may do it quickly, while others may take a while. But it never fails: if people are provided a safe space and they desire wholeness, they will...
by David Hayward | Oct 14, 2018 | David's Letters, I'm sad, I'm scared
Steps to Making New Friends As many of you know, one of the worst aspects of leaving the church is losing all or most of your friends, and the difficulty of making new ones. We may experience extreme loneliness after we leave the church, and some of us fall into the...
by David Hayward | Apr 29, 2018 | David's Letters, I'm sad
It’s with sadness I announce the passing of another TLS member, Sarah Courtney-Dean. Just a couple of months ago we lost Chris McGill. That was a serious blow to our community. So is the loss of Sarah. Let me quote Ruth Calder-Murphy, one of our founding members who...
