[Magdalen] She's leaving church

[Allan Carr]

Jon,
I don't see a need for you to be sacrificial or make an immediate
commiitment oneway or   the other. Why not visit that "awesome, heallthy,
and outward looking" parish with Dawn and Bekka a few times?
I'll pray that you find a way that's maybe more complicated than simply
going out, but works for you to be able to do it.

On Sunday, May 31, 2015, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Molly,
> Be assured of my prayers, Molly.  Since I've 'retired' I struggle with
> attending my prior parish.  (It is a hospice church, dying, with a old
> congregation that cannot, or will not, look into the future, nor past the
> doors. There are also some parishioners there who are in total control of
> the church.)   My darling wife and step-daughter LOVE the new parish they
> have found and I struggle with simply saying NO to my old parish and
> joining Dawn and Bekka in the healthy, outward looking, and awesome parish
> they've found.  It's also very difficult for me to simply go out from our
> apartment for any lengthy of time over 2 hours.  Thank God that I have a
> hospice chaplain and (hopefully new) spiritual director that I can hash
> things over with.
>
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> Deacon Jon Egger
>
>
>
> *“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who
> has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to
> deceive and overawe the People."(Eugene V. Debs, Anti-War Speech, June 16,
> 1918) *
>
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Dear Molly,
> > I do understand.  I pray that you that you will find new paths with
> heart,
> > new places of refreshment, new healthy relationships and new calls for
> you
> > many gifts.  Bessings on your way forward.
> >
> > Susan
> >
> > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear pubbies,
> > >
> > > Last night I posted this on Facebook:
> > >
> > > "I think I am done with religion.  Not with God, of course, never with
> > > God.  But with church (except for friends), with intellectual theology,
> > and
> > > with the Future of Christianity, I think I am done."
> > >
> > > I realized that my church (not necessarily the individuals but the
> > > church-geist) promulgates the dysfunctional patterns that mis-shaped my
> > own
> > > soul's formation:  triangulation, resentments, scapegoating,
> > > psychopatholigizing, the "spiritual bypass".  This has become
> blindingly
> > > obvious in the last few weeks.  BTDT, not doing that again.
> > >
> > > I need to get out for my soul's safety and well-being, just as 40-years
> > > ago I had to turn my back on my family and walk away, for my own
> > survival.
> > > I am, in a sense, grieving history as I repeat the most health-bound
> > > decision I could make.
> > >
> > > I also find myself increasingly irritated by church's narcissism,
> whether
> > > it's the idolatry of liturgy or preoccupation with the past or earnest
> > > navel-gazing. Fewgawdsake, church, get over yourself!
> > >
> > > I need to find God.  And right now, I am living in Psalm 131.
> > >
> > > I'll show up on the odd Sunday morning for social reasons, but my soul
> > has
> > > left the building,
> > >
> > > Joining the company of the "dones",
> > > Molly
> > >
> > > The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in
> no
> > > other way. -- Mark Twain
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Before enlightenment pay bills, do laundry.  After enlightenment pay
> bills,
> > do laundry.
> >
>


-- 
Allan Carr