Do I want to become a mainstream person? My visions for myself have been (1) becoming self-supporting while still staying at the shelter;...

The seductiveness of turmoil. Thursday, August 25, 2016 My foremost task for today is to keep myself focused on the practical things I...

(Originally posted 05/12/13. Reblogged 04/18/24.) Wednesday 04/24/13 Facing various issues as to how to spend my time. The current...

I’m posting very little new material these days, but there are hundreds of posts different folks may not have seen the first time...

A grassy lot inspires a vision of what can be when a community cares for itself. When I take the bus to church in the morning, I normally...

Debate opposing views, don’t label them hate: Column Over the weekend, I very nearly un-Friended a church member on Facebook. This woman...

These words will scandalize some readers. Sometime in the future, I will no doubt discuss the same ideas in a more well-ordered way.  But...

ADVISORY: This post includes explicit content that some readers may find objectionable. One lives in a world substantially of one’s own...

One lives in a world substantially of one’s own creation. The offering plate came around, and I got a shock.  I can remember when I...

Although I know that, at one time, I was one myself, I’ve never understood the deal with hypocrisy. Act all holy and pious sometimes for...

I am at a difficult juncture. My immediate material situation requires that, like never before in my life, I practice what I preach; care...

I have been spending lots of time at church during the week. I took to looking askance at two particular neighborhood teens who...

I have just launched a Go Fund Me, and put a link to it in the menu bar here above. This one: Donate At the risk of engaging in TMI:...

A new thread at Messiah Truth . This is most emphatically not Jewish teaching.  I expect it correctly to be condemned as not-Jewish.  I...

White Americans are nearly as blind to their racism as ever before An orthodoxy is a system of ideas that adherents insist one must...

When I hang out at Dunkin’ Donuts in the morning, I have a prescribed spot, in a corner, by the door. This morning this woman came in...

As of March 7, I will have been homeless five years. This morning I took first concrete steps to get myself into transitional housing....

If Pastor never says anything I disagree with, I’ll never learn anything from him. Reblogged 2023-03-09 . #Churches #Church #Religion...

I have suffered with obsessive-compulsive disorder and genetically-based clinical depression all my life.  I first became medicated for...

Adapted from a 12/03/15 e-mail to my brothers and some others. Given instability at the shelter where I’ve been for almost five years, I...