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
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Ground Zero
As the ancient structures of Christendom crumble--its beliefs, its authority, its buildings even--what remains? I've been deconstructing...
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Brian E Pearson
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
What about the Clergy?
A friend recently confided to me a horrific story, in two parts. First, as an eleven-year-old at a sleepover, he was sexually...
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Brian E Pearson
- Aug 10, 2020
- 2 min
What about Jesus?
How did we get it so wrong, for so long? Jesus came preaching the "kingdom," God's realm that exists right here, right now, under our...
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Brian E Pearson
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Truths, not Truth
There may be one universal Truth behind all truths, one Source within all sources, One God beyond all gods. This is, in fact, what I...
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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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