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Life is my religion (Note from Jim)
I’m popping in to share a brief update. I’m on the final stretch to finish my next book, Notes from (Over) the Edge. My deadline is the end of next week. Yikes! 
The timing worked out pretty well with my adjunct teaching. I’m on a two-week break before the fall quarter begins in which I’ll be teaching three classes again.
In the meantime, there are a few other places you can track me down:
Life is full these days. Jessica started high school!! Geesh, seemed like just yesterday we were watching the Wiggles and Clifford! Whitney graduated from Navy basic training. We all went to her graduation ceremony in Chicago/Great Lakes. Currently she is at A School in Pensacola. Yesterday Heather and I took Cera to the One Direction movie. I know for sure I lost my Man Card on that one. I won’t admit to also having seen the Justin Bieber movie multiple times as well as all three High School Musical movies… multiple times.
Speaking of Man Card, I’ve been training regularly in the gym. It wasn’t easy walking away from my endeavors as an endurance athlete before my near-fatal car wreck in 2010. I’m not sure I’m going to be doing another 50-mile run anytime super soon but I’m making considerable progress.
We added three cats to our lives. Two of them we adopted from the Nashville animal shelter, and one of them is a three-legged cat. Heather wants to adopt one of those retired racer greyhounds.
I am so grateful for all of you who leave blog comments, send me emails, and share some of your own spiritual journey with me. Your encouragement means more than you know! I get plenty of hate mail from people who accuse me of being Satan’s spawn, and so the encouraging emails keep me going. Thank you!
A couple of posts that seemed to raise people’s ire and go viral were:
15 Things Jesus Didn’t Say, and 15 Things Jesus DID Say.
A lot of people contact me and ask if I’m a Christian. You can follow my spiritual journey through my first three books: Divine Nobodies; Wide Open Spaces; and Being Jesus in Nashville.
I usually tell people:
I am…
An Inclusivist
I believe all of life is sacred, every human being is beautiful, and each moment matters.
An Atheist
I don’t believe in a “God” whose love and acceptance is conditional, or who advocates fear, shame, oppression, injustice, ignorance, repression or hatred.
An Agnostic
There is twice as much that I don’t know, than I do know. The mystery of it all cannot be cloaked in certainty.
A Student of Jesus
I want to be courageously human, a powerful expression of love, acceptance, peace, beauty, goodness, freedom and compassion in this world, and live without separation from myself, God, others and life… as I see Jesus did.
A Possibilitarian
I believe in the possibility of humankind awakening to our profound interconnectedness, and the possibilities of the power of love to transform our world.
I write a lot about Jesus but don’t count on it lining up with the typical message of Institutional Christianity.
Thanks for sharing in this journey with me!
