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I forgot this essay… reread it this afternoon. You know… it makes sense. Originally published in 207, it makes a bit more sense of this journey and, I think, goes a long way to explain my departure.

Y SOME STANDARDS I’ve fallen off in recent years: I’ve stopped ranting about “modernists” and “heretics” and, even, managed to offend some of my anti-modernist, anti-heretical friends. By other standards – my own internal meter, my confessor, etc – I’ve managed to make peace with a few people that used to really dislike me. I’ve [...]

HE NEW MILLENNIUM Brought me to several surprising changes all at once. My job at the California Institute of Integral Studies allowed me to take classes at a discounted rate so I used my benefit to finish my BA. The BA Completion Programme at CIIS spent a good deal of time discussing why it was [...]

ETWEEN THE POST On my grandmother (above) and January 1999, a number of things happened. My roomies asked me to move out – and I moved in with Rick, a friend I knew from St Gregory’s Church. At the same time, I was wrestling with what church means, what Christianity means. I’d made a big [...]

FTER MOVING To San Francisco in 1997, the purpose of my electronic journalling changed and moved entirely online. Even earlier, I began sending out the weekend report from the Church Center to friends of mine, but the primary purpose of that production was internal – a bunch of coworkers communicating. The news from San Francisco, [...]

ere’s the second “greatest hit” from the Early Years. More Garrison Keillor, more sap. THis time, I was hearing about the first opening of a KK in Manhattan. I’m thinking it was 1996 still. This one also got me emails from all over the place. And, in case your wondering, yes, in a couple of [...]

URING THE Period of the weekend e-newsletter at the Church Center, I had two moments of internet fame – at the time when very few of us understood what the internet did. The first was this post on Baseball’s Opening Day in 1996. I received email from all over the country as people reported “I [...]

ETROSPECTIVES Were promised for these ten days leading up to the beginning of my blogging sabbatical. 15 Years ago we were using an email chain letter as our electronic journal: several coworkers and myself would forward our “weekend report” to a central editor or editrix (I gave it up after a year, but then had [...]