The Roofless Church

Category: Joy

  • Good Grief: Pain, Pleasure, and Possibilities

    Good Grief: Pain, Pleasure, and Possibilities

    Alchemizing Grief Into Joy Through Creativity Art Turns Chaos Into Culture The poster above is for a show I am producing this Thursday, August 20, 2026. I decided to do it as a way to process the death of my youngest brother, Marcus, in December. I needed to do something with all of the grief.…

  • Love is God (Complete and Utter Joy)

    Love is God (Complete and Utter Joy)

    Sometimes I feel like I have to apologize to anyone burdened by the belief that God’s essence is anything other than Love. Even though I consciously know I’m not responsible for centuries of teachings to the contrary, when I see so many people burdened by the lie that God is just looking for ways to…

  • The Greatest Love of All

    Dedicated to the True Person of Whitney Houston If you’ve been hanging out here lately you might see a theme emerging.  But in case you aren’t catching on, here’s what’s going on.  I’ve been talking a lot about loving ourselves.  Why?  Well, I have come to the point where I think that our inability to…

  • Coming Out of the Dark…

    Somewhere in time there is a part of me that I visit frequently.  He is in a dark room and he feels alone.  He is living a lie.  He believes that he is separate from God and from everything else in life–the consummate individual.  Even though he knows that he can get up and walk…

  • This Little Light of Mind

    As I said in the video, in all of my years, I have never been able to get myself to conform to the way society tells me I am supposed to be.  As a child that meant I was often seen as weird or different.  Unlike most of the people, I didn’t follow the crowd.…

  • Happiness Is Overrated

    Turn up the VOLUME on this one.  I recorded on low and since I don’t edit these you’ll have to put in some extra effort to hear it.  I figure the unintentional stuff is part of the message too so get out of it what you will. So, let’s start with a question: How many of you…