to track and expand on ideas brought up
in a Sunday morning book group,
but it has morphed into my more general religion, theology, pop culture, and social commentary blog.
I adopted the nickname
Presbyhippy on Twitter
around the time of the PCUSA General Assembly in 2014.
In 2017, I was commissioned
as a lay pastor in the PCUSA,
after already serving a rural PCUSA congregation for one year.
In 2020,
I left that PCUSA congregation abruptly
after my social media posts and outspoken participation
in our local #BlackLivesMatter movement
had angered and upset
several elders and members of my church.
I have been deconstructing my faith ever since,
I have been deconstructing my faith ever since,
and in late 2021,
I formally dissolved my association with the PCUSA,
thus departing from
the creedal high church commitments
of my ruling elder vows.
I currently identify as an
I currently identify as an
animist pantheist universalist
and am attending a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
As a person in 12-step recovery
from a panoply of addictions,
I consider myself a perpetual student
in "spiritual kindergarten,"
my academic training as professional theologian notwithstanding.
