Tag Archive for "religious deconstruction" | Michael Rose :: Spiritual Direction & Grief Support

Deconstructing your Faith? A bit of what I learned during my Deconstruction.

About 20 years ago, I began my personal deconstruction - this involved stepping away (dismantling)from Big Box ministry. It cost me friends, notoriety, my ministry equity and reputation, my false sense of certainty about all things God, and … a paycheque. I write about it in my 2012 book “Becoming Love. Avoiding Common Forms of Christian Insanity.” …

Open and Relational Theology has been a life saver for me, To be able to engage God and the world in ways that are consistent with my experience and intuitive sense of the God-who-is-love via the new eyes of good history, scripture, anthropology, philosophy, science and cosmology. It is affording me a way towards a more whole, very human life in the ongoing journey of becoming love.

God takes us out via the desert to bring us into something new. For the love of God, don’t make your home in the spaces of transitions and aridity. Resist the urge to build your cottage industry ministry in the transitional spaces - because, truth be told; you will gather the lost, the bitter and the angry. And the only help you can be to them is being lost and angry together. All the while cheering each other on in self-righteous snark- throwing rocks as you cheer each other on.

February 16, 2016
Spiritual Journey Series – Interior Castle 3

This seven-part series explores St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle. This is not a program to be worked but as we explore each facet in a general sense, we will gain a deeper perspective of the journey and where we may be at any giving time. The spiritual journey requires effort and deliberateness as much as grace. It is the process Continue Reading...
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April 4, 2011
Personal Experience Matters in the Long Run

A modern parable: Filbert was a dog who lived in a small prairie town. He was a good and happy dog who had a good family that treated him very well. One day he was rolling in the grass when out of the corner of his eye he saw the biggest rabbit he had ever seen. It was at least Continue Reading...
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September 6, 2011
Re-starting after a Vacation

The Labour Day weekend signals the transition from the summer / vacation mindset and serves as the clarion call to return to the office / school and the often maddening pace with programs, activities and new projects beginning! If you are like me, cranking it up after a long break can be a bit of challenge and I thought I Continue Reading...
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