Recently, I've had the chance to renew old friendships with my college and high school friends ... I let some of those slip while crapping away my 20s trying to find a woman who'd love me for who I am.  Inevitably, it's led me to think back--what if I had drunk the Wrong-Waymaker Kool-Aid 12 years ago?

Judging by what's happened with most of my ( Read more... )

Today I'm relishing my first real weekend in three weeks--and only my second real weekend this month.  One of the departments at work was behind (due to a lot of turnover, I think), so we had to work Friday night for three out of the past four weeks.  While I like the extra money on my paycheck, this schedule throws my sleep schedule off by a mile ( Read more... )

I just discovered this gut-wrenching comment in my initial post about the Wrong-Waymakers.  The parent of one of my compatriots in Carolina's class of 2000 said she seriously considered yanking her daughter from Carolina because of what these gangsters did.  She even said that Loretta Bates tried to convince her that there aren't any churches in ( Read more... )

(redacted on May 23 to edit out non-public figures ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I happened to notice that one of my former "sisters" in Wrong-Waymaker, Jaime Luton, was on MySpace--and the way her page looked, I got the impression that she had walked out on Every Nation.  After a good deal of hewing, hawing and praying, I bit the bullet and tried to reach out to her.  After the system wouldn't let me send her ( Read more... )

I've started to wonder if there's something to the fact that this whole business with Jamie came down close to the 10-year anniversary of my breaking free from Waymaker Christian Fellowship.

It's hard not to see the parallels.  In both cases, I got in with people whom I thought cared about me, but really didn't.  The one comparison that really jumps ( Read more... )