(5/5) I've lived my whole life in that world; in their "day after."

This book is the beginning of mine.

(4/5)The title comes from the founding trauma of Seventh-day Adventism itself; a movement that gave everything to a prophecy that failed. October 22nd 1844: The Great Disappointment. They woke up on the 23rd and had to decide what to do with a faith that had just publicly failed them…

(3/5)The book is my attempt to trace that break backwards. Not to attack what I came from but to understand it honestly enough to stop being afraid of it…

(2/5)I'd always been fully devoted: ordained deacon, church musician, estate planner for the regional conference. I believed it completely. And then parenthood arrived and something broke open that I couldn't close again…

(1/5)Great question. Thanks for asking:
I didn't set out to write a book. I set out to figure out why I couldn't pass my faith on to my children without feeling like I was handing them something dangerous….

Greatly Disappointed: a memoir of inherited faith

Coming this fall.
Join the waitlist at compassandaltar.com

#indieauthor #spiritualmemoir #exsda #exvangelical #faithjourney

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I spent the entirety of Godzilla Minus 1 waiting for the beat to drop.

‘If you don’t give me a peace prize I’m gonna start taking countries by force.’
- an insane person

“Context only mattered when it helped the argument…”
#deconstruction #spiritualwriting

A guy who became my friend when we were 6 because I would protect him from bullies on the playground because he was too small to defend himself would like me to set time aside for a debate for him to convince me that America needs to be a bully.
I am who I’ve always been.

It’s like knowing both engines have gone out and you just have to wait on gravity. This sucks

I give up

I didn’t write my book on purpose but it was very intentional

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#afteradventism #highdemandreligion #deconstruction #spirituality #exsda

My name is Will, I spent 30+ years in the SDA Church and the last 10 writing my thoughts about that down for posterity. I’ve spent the last year turning that into a memoir of a spiritual journey in and out of inherited faith. It’s called Greatly Disappointed. IYKYK
Follow along if you’d like.

This post is pointless

#inheritedfaith #deconstruction

I know it’s supposed to be the other way around but my kids are who empower me to go out into the world and be my full authentic self

I wrote a book about deconstructing inherited faith, in particular my seventh day Adventist worldview, and searching for spirit and meaning out of the rubble. Now I just have to figure out how to market and publish it. Join me?
#greatlydisappointed #exsda #afteradventism #deconstruction

I sure wish Sonya Massey were still alive

‘The books of Kings are being written, but the chroniclers are coming’

- let they that have an ear, hear

Will James (@altardthoughts) I’ve been fighting for that green underlined sentence for a while! Balancing narrative flow and complex religious dogma has been hell. This may mean nothing to most, but damn it feels good to be a gan...

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I know it’s part of it, but after a 15th ‘not for me’ from literary agents, I’m gonna go drink.

Widget Co.: A Satire of Scarcity Math Let’s say the ‘woke left’ has pressured the companies in your field to have diverse hiring policies or face casual social media backlash.

How you can maintain dominance and feel extinct at the same time

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Heidi part 3 (the finale): Writing as Healing Spotify video

Don’t miss this last episode with Heidi!!
(And come back tomorrow morning for my next guest: Luka!!)

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Heidi Part 1: Belief and Blood Recalculating… · Episode

I had a great chat with #EllenGWhite great great great granddaughter about growing up #adventist and what road signs led to leaving.
Plus there are two more parts coming…

Recalculating…

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😂😂fair point. By boy math, our muscle shouldn’t be worth a damn by the age of 14