In Search of Understanding
Thanks for visiting my Blog page. It began over a year ago, offering reflections on life that bubbled up from the various creative projects I was working on.
Now, it's become something else. Having spent my entire life in the church, and the last forty years as an ordained minister, I find myself processing that experience.
I loved the church, but in the end it broke my heart. As it dies a slow death, isolating itself and refusing to see God
in the world beyond its doors, I'm trying to understand the church, its calling and its future, by deconstructing it.
I'm also beginning a new spiritual journey on an Unknown Path, and welcoming fellow seekers along the way.
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Brian E Pearson
- Jul 13, 2020
- 2 min
Letting Go
The New Dispensation requires, first, that we let go of the old. For all its lofty words and grand displays of piety, even its good works...
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Brian E Pearson
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
Deeper In
There was a point last week when my email inbox simply went dead. Even Facebook got quiet, personal stories replaced by endless ads. What...
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