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
- May 20, 2019
- 1 min
Last Rites
I believe we are living in the days of the death of the church. I believe this not just because members are vanishing and churches are cl...
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Brian E Pearson
- Apr 29, 2019
- 1 min
Drifting
Each morning, since retiring, I begin my day reading and writing. What comes out is rarely profound, but it does paint a quick sketch of w...
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