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May 2021

May 20, 2021
In my book Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity, I wrote the following in...
May 18, 2021
In my book Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity, I wrote the following in...
May 16, 2021
I work on assembly line.  There are about 40 jobs on the line that I...
May 10, 2021
I always hated English class in high school.  I despised learning rules about grammar and...
May 09, 2021
My mother is an incredible woman.  She grew up poor with a love for music...
May 05, 2021
(This is the introduction to my book:  Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity.  It...

April 2021

April 27, 2021
Today I was typing a blog and accidentally typed “questions” when I meant to type...
April 25, 2021
As I progress in my deconstruction and the subsequent journey, it seems that language becomes...
April 20, 2021
(This is an excerpt from my first book, Apparent Faith). I have had thick glasses...
April 17, 2021
Recently I commented to a friend that I have a long history of rejection.  For...
April 13, 2021
Good News:  We have a cover and we have a release date for the new...
April 11, 2021
There are about 300 instances, in the Bible, where the writers tried to capture what...
April 10, 2021
Last year, Laura and I wrote a book called "Out Into the Desert."  We decided...
April 02, 2021
Many of us who are deconstructing and evolving in our faith find Easter weekend to...
April 01, 2021
About 2 1/2 years ago, I went through what most would call a dark night of...

March 2021

March 30, 2021
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way, and nothing stays fixed.  You cannot step...
March 26, 2021
Carl Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.  His influence has...
March 25, 2021
With Facebook and other social media, we have become accustomed to getting immediate feedback.  After...
March 23, 2021
This poem is from a later chapter in my new book, Being: A Journey Toward Authenticity...
March 20, 2021
Please understand that my tone is not angry.  But, I am resolute.  It's a not...
March 13, 2021
Some of my old evangelical friends still talk to me occasionally online hoping they can...
March 13, 2021
I will never forget the experience I had one night in a Tea Shop with...
March 11, 2021
Life is full of stops and starts.  Sometimes, it seems like we just get going...
March 08, 2021
This is from my friend, Anita Grace Brown. An excerpt from the new book “Kamikaze...
March 07, 2021
Last week, an article made the rounds about a pastor that suggested from the pulpit...
March 05, 2021
I currently work for a manufacturing company on an assembly line.  It’s physically demanding, but...

February 2021

February 25, 2021
Truth is a persistent thing.  It's found in many different places, spoke by many different...
February 23, 2021
(from the introduction to my new book, Being -- out in April) I learned the...
February 20, 2021
Currently, I work on an assembly line.  It monotonous, long hours of doing the same...
February 14, 2021
Over a year ago, we stopped attending church.  After our deconstruction, we immediately started attending...
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