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May 2012

May 30, 2012

an unnecessary match made

AN UNNECESSARY MATCH: (buy a print of this cartoon-->click here) The bible and questions belong...

May 29, 2012

the best feature

May 28, 2012

one book two attitudes

As we can see from these two fellas, their minds are predisposed to thinking a...

May 27, 2012

prayer from the cell: full silence

May 26, 2012

need a friend?

Are you lonely? Do you need a friend? When I left the ministry a couple...

May 25, 2012

free to go

I know what it's like to be trapped. I know what it's like to feel...

May 24, 2012

outside church

Where's the light? Where's the color? Where's the happiness? Where's the love?

May 23, 2012

church like banks

For those of you who might have missed it, I posted another One Minute Message...

May 22, 2012

uh oh!

UH-OH! (Buy a print of this cartoon!) If you're in line marching to someone else's...

May 21, 2012

spiritually displaced is not unspiritual

Last week I wrote a post on spiritual refugees (people who have left the church...

May 21, 2012

for sale

May 20, 2012

prayer from the cell: loving the rest

May 19, 2012

a new meditation posture

I like this new posture. The right hand is peaceful and receptive. The left hand...

May 18, 2012

guest post: Syl’s story

This is the caliber of some of my readers. Syl responded to me by email...

May 18, 2012

useful theological tools

USEFUL THEOLOGICAL TOOLS: Buy a print of this cartoon! Something to learn is that there...

May 17, 2012

are you a spiritual refugee?

A refugee is, by definition, a person who, owing to a well-founded fear of being...

May 17, 2012

we are all the us in Jesus

I claim that in Jesus there are no boundaries. There are no edges. There is...

May 16, 2012

2 rooms 2 theologies

When I pastored churches I spent a lot of time in hospitals visiting the sick....

May 15, 2012

objectification

There's another option. Why not see them as just people? Now there's a novel idea!

May 14, 2012

tranquilizer

This is very much in line with my popular cartoon last week God at Gunpoint....

May 13, 2012

happy mothers day: what a job!

The story of mother Mary is quite astounding. On the one hand she hears incredible...

May 13, 2012

prayer from the cell: made you sin

God is not orthodox. In the scriptures, God doesn't punish bad theology. It's behavior that...

May 12, 2012

the slow long thaw

I said to Lisa that I'll have a better idea how I feel today tomorrow....

May 12, 2012

park and drive

Drawing this one was a very emotional experience for me. She is me. Is she...

May 11, 2012

packaging vision packages people

Strange things happened when the church I used to pastor renounced vision. It used to...

May 11, 2012

find your own Sophia wisdom

Socrates believed that we all carried our own wisdom deep within and that it just...

May 10, 2012

spirituality outside of church

It is possible and I would even say necessary to have a spirituality outside of...

May 10, 2012

God at gunpoint

These guys are using the bible to hold God hostage. They are using the bible...

May 09, 2012

the mind and spiritual growth

Spiritual transformation is very difficult. The mind is a very complex organ, bent on its...

May 09, 2012

free indeed

I believe we all have a path. It is our life to discover it, explore...