Profile of a Religious Man

This book is a ""journey book."" Sitting down at a computer and producing the story has been a grand trek.

I have learned that there is a principle in nature that some things need to mellow, calm down, and soak in.

The refusal of winemakers to take a wine before its time is a notion I am coming to understand.

It works with writers as well. Like a fetus signaling its mother that it is time to head for the hospital, a literary work stays in the mind until its time.

In my education, I have read of the battles of great Church leaders who were eventually thrown out of their churches.

In my denominational education, I was largely led to see them as heretics, rebels, eccentrics, revolutionaries, apostates, and as generally representing a lower form of spirituality.

Church education often asked me to surrender my biases in favor of accepting a new set of assumptions--my denominational ones.

We were to be critical of everything except our organization.

I submit that there is danger in that. This book will cover incidents from the first forty years of my life as a religious addict.

You may find something here that you can identify with.