I mentioned in the voicemail that it has been a great learning experience dealing with Chaplin Bob. Between my leaving the voicemail and starting to write this I got my first response from him that wasn’t a cut and paste. He simply made a direct attack against me with no foundation. It would be so easy to simply name-call in response, but the objective is to deal with the man who uses at least pseudo-Christian terms as a brother. To contend with him, or “agōnizomai”, to mutually see the truth. I want to teach my children to do so, firmly but respectfully, to correct and be corrected, but mostly to seek the truth. This model is clearly not set before them. My stage has grown larger, and perhaps as already has happened, others in the Lexington area will hear. It remains my hope that reconciliation with Jim Cross, Render Caines, or Chris Bitterman may occur. I do use their names, and have grown convinced that I must do so publically. Reconciliation is my goal, and I not giving up until my last breath.

Dorothy-Jane, I love you, and I love our kids.