Wake up! Like someone told me recently, I’m more afraid of dying and never having lived than of dying itself. I know life is full of struggles. Sometimes it is unbearably hard. But it is my life to live. And there are also so many joys. There is love to be shared. Wake up! Read more
This really shouldn’t need an explanation. But those of you who know how completely exhausting it is to keep a church’s vision and programs going will understand. Check out my BOOKS that address issues like this one with cartoons and writing. Read more
Platitudes are like an air-borne virus that threatens to infect us. We need to understand this virus. We must protect ourselves against it. Once you’ve learned how to detect it, it’s easy after that. You build an immune system that will defend you. But look out… once you have the virus it overtakes you rapidly and you will tend to infect others very quickly. Check out my BOOKS that address issues like this one with cartoons and writing. Read more
Yesterday I posted on Twitter and Facebook “I wish prayer worked!” and received quite an overwhelming response that varied between total agreement to theological argument… one of which this cartoon attempts to portray. Not many people picked up the nuances. Maybe my fault. But I claim that any idea that prayer “works” is magical. Some people felt sorry for me because they suspected the post emerged out of my own struggle, and for my desperate plea to be met with... Read more
Almost a year ago I wrote two posts called “The Silence” and “Let’s Admit the Silence”. I had just read Shusaku Endo’s powerful book, “Silence”, and it helped me to admit what I had suspected all along… that silence is the language of choice for That-Which-We-Call-God. If All is Silent for those in their deepest suffering, then why should there be verbosity for those living in their victory? Check out my BOOKS that address issues like this one with cartoons and... Read more
never quote from any other book except the bible; let it be known that dissenters will be refused positions of leadership; stop talking to them on a personal level; make them think that to disagree with you is to hurt your feelings; at least once a month quote the verse, “Thou shalt not touch God’s anointed!“ continually emphasize that love means total and unquestionable agreement; remind them weekly that you and the leadership hear directly from God; constantly confront and... Read more
I had no idea that when I drew this drawing back in March of 2010, that it would be the beginning of my Sophia series. That was actually the very month I left the ministry and left the church. I just realized that this morning. It amazes me how prophetic these drawings have been. Prophetic in both senses: they have preached into my situation and challenged me; and they have predicted what I was about to experience. The journey has... Read more
Today I’m giving away a free print of this cartoon “God’s Daisy”… the Unconditional Eternal Love. Oh, the years I spent in spiritual anguish because I’d been taught that I had to earn then keep The Love. Then the light went on by some Mysterious Hand and revealed to me that there was nothing to be earned. Nothing to be kept. I couldn’t be loved any more than I already was. Love is All. (Ps: You can check out all... Read more
First you have the event, if there was one. Then you have the observer. Then you have the observer’s interpretation. Then you have his written account of his interpretation of what the observer observed. Then you have the interpretation of the interpretation of what the observer observed. Then you have the interpretation of the interpretation of the interpretation of what the observer observed. And then… well… you get my point… We come pretty far down the chain. Read more
I had been doing Gay Saturdays. But I’m going to make them Sophia Saturdays so I can faithfully tell her story weekly. Now it’s going to be Gay Thursday. So about the cartoon: This happens. A lot. Have you ever considered that things in life are presented to us, not so that we can change them, but so that we can be changed? Theology is for stretching… for stretching our own hearts and minds. Read more
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