About Me

Many Westerners are experiencing a transition in how we experience faith.  Some very clear-cut expressions of faith that made a lot of sense to us just a few years back are not working so well now.  In the last few years, some folks from all over the U.S. have started a conversation about what--adopting a phrase from the psychologist M. Scott Peck--we're calling "Stage 4 faith."  (See the accompanying description of what we mean by that.)  This has encouraged us towards a new perspective on what we're hoping for from God--in the world at large and in our own lives.  We've started small gatherings to continue this conversation--our most recent drew folks from thirteen states.  I started this blog in mid-2008 to keep this conversation moving forward.

A few words about me: I have a background both in theology (Fuller Seminary, '87) and the arts (Stanford University, '84, and a decade as a working playwright).  I lead a two-site church in the Boston area (Vineyard Christian Fellowship--Greater Boston, www.bostonvineyard.org), keep my hand in with some fiction writing, and live just outside Boston with my wife, Grace, and our children.

Send me an e-mail at: dave@notreligious.org