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
- Feb 24, 2020
- 2 min
Dirt Wednesday
This week Christians around the globe will kneel before a priest, who will take a thumb print from a bowl of ashes and apply it to their ...
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Brian E Pearson
- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
My New Church
The week before Christmas I was sacked from my job as columnist for the Niagara Anglican, the monthly newspaper of the Diocese of Niagara...
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