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June 2020

June 14, 2020

Reinventing the Wheel – A Hope for Church Escapees Working Together

Reinventing the Wheel We keep reinventing the wheel. Some brilliant idea strikes us and we...

January 2020

January 25, 2020

Exclusion is Bullying

Exclusion This week my wife showed me a picture of her nephew. He had his...

January 06, 2020

Jesus’ Eternal View of Life and How it Should Be Ours

Jesus represented our struggles.. I was taught that Jesus represented everyone. In that representation was...

August 2019

August 17, 2019

Celebrating a 20 year Lesbian Marriage in Christ

Celebrating our Love I know, most people don't think about the fact that two women...

August 14, 2019

You Can’t Get Something for Nothing, Which Is Why People Love Christianity’s Works Based System

Works Based Righteousness My father was atypical in that he loved to throw out sayings...

August 10, 2019

I Kissed Christianity Goodbye

Waves and Moves of God? I remember when the book came out. It made a...

August 07, 2019

The Family of God

Family I will be as honest as I can as I write this. It's not...

August 03, 2019

Bipolar Disorder, it’s a real thing.

The Assessment We were sitting in my office talking. A couple had come in because...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

B Tandy and the Squirrel

B Tandy Twenty years or so ago, in Virginia, more specifically the Front Royal area,...

July 27, 2019

Intentional Community

Free From Religion, Needing Community I have been outside of the institutional church for a...

July 24, 2019

ICE Tears

Watch The Video Below - It Brought Me To Tears A man sat inside a...

July 20, 2019

I Don’t Believe in Pastors

I Don't Believe in Pastors I never thought I would say that I don't believe...

July 17, 2019

Megan Rapinoe and American Vitriol

Megan Rapinoe and American Vitriol Less than two weeks ago, Megan Rapinoe, an out and...

July 13, 2019

Brave On

Brave On When I was a child, I never had a relationship with my mother....

July 10, 2019

Law, Anger and Lesbians

Got Law? I know you are because you come and you try to convince me...

July 06, 2019

The Barn Light and Religion

The light on I stood there staring out the large picture window in our kitchen...

July 04, 2019

I Quit Church And I’m Happy About It

I Would Quit Again I'm not going to church anymore, I quit. God told me...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

What Time Is It?

Time to Know There are times in our lives that have distinct purpose. Ecclesiastes declares,...

June 26, 2019

Encounter With The Dead

An Encounter Interruption I had seen umpteen people and the day was still rolling. A...

June 22, 2019

Meeting Laurah

Meeting Laurah My wife and I went into Lowes to buy a faucet and it...

June 19, 2019

God in A Dime

Dad and A Dime Today is Father's Day and my heart is filled with thoughts...

June 15, 2019

Abortion is complicated

Abortion Talk I had a young lady come into my life twenty years or so...

June 13, 2019

Religious Focus

Religious Legalism Plenty of volley's fly back and forth across the religious legalistic net. Debate...

June 08, 2019

Straight Pride?

Pride Because Beatings This week, a gay couple was riding a bus in London, they...

June 05, 2019

God Made Me Gay

God Made Me Gay Whenever I say, "God made me gay" it is a provocation...

June 01, 2019

Suffering for Jesus

Suffering for Jesus Suffering for Jesus was something I was well acquainted with. I suffered...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Kindness is a Currency

"Kindness is a currency that, when spent, buys more than money can..PK Langley" Kindness Opportunity...

May 25, 2019

Scapegoats

Scapegoats A scapegoat is essential in human culture. It's the guy who gets blamed for...

May 22, 2019

Giving From the Heart

Giving From the Heart When I was a senior pastor, we told people that their...

May 15, 2019

Truth Doesn’t Always Hurt

Truth in Jail I was a corrections officer working in a jail in Texas. There...