[EarthyAngel]

I live in Northern California. I grew up in the church, had 4 years of seminary, attended Ricks College, served as a missionary in Europe, got sealed in the temple. Got divorced. No kids. Enjoying that now. (Eternal Family isn't for everyone).

But, I'm an apostate. Now, I'm sure that alone will cause some to hate me right off the bat.

Rest assured. I have a great deal of respect and love for my heritage. I have no doubt that it was part of the grand plan of my life that I had such an intimate relationship with the Church through out the first three decades of my life.

Oh, I have my complaints and criticisms, which will no doubt be taken by some as an attack on the Church or their testimony should I express them, but by-and-large, I think I am pretty fair. I used to hate anti-mormons because they seemed to take delight in lobbing figurative grenades at the Church and its members. I found them very upsetting, not because of what they said, but because of the cruelty which they exhibited.

I certainly don't want to be accused of being one of THEM.

I am now a pagan, mystic, shaman, buddhist, wiccan, gnostic, unitarian-universalist. Yeah, it's a mouthful... but I've been studying spirituality and religion now for 20 years, looking for the common threads throughout time and space in what human beings experience as God, and I haven't found a single religion that is all-encompassing.

So anyway. Here I am.

I'm curious to see how I'll be received.

Kevin