by David Hayward | Nov 27, 2019 | David's Letters, I'm angry, I'm scared
WRITE THAT LETTER The other day I wrote a letter to an old friend. The last time we met he said things that were very hurtful. I immediately wrote him at that time and told him so. He dismissed it. So I decided to let the relationship lie dormant for a while. But the...
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 | Sep 22, 2018 | David's Letters, I'm sad
Ending Bad Relationships Lisa and I have been talking a lot lately about relationships. I expressed to her today that it’s curious to me how she and I are in totally different places when it comes to ensuring our relationships are healthy. She ends a relationship if...
by David Hayward | Jul 30, 2018 | David's Letters, I'm confused
Many of us here have experienced the same thing: the loss of really close friends because our faith vanished or our beliefs changed or our relationship with the church disintegrated or all the above. Lisa and I have chosen to try to restore a few of those friendships....
by David Hayward | May 6, 2018 | David's Letters, I'm okay
THE THREE Fs When Lisa and I left the ministry and, as it ends up, the church in 2010, we came to the conclusion that we had some work to do on our personal lives. The reason? We felt we’d been living under a heavy wet blanket for a long time, just being Christians...
