I’m Bishop Randy Dean, and I’m here because I believe we are alive to love and everything else can drift into something hollow if we’re not careful. I don’t want to waste your time with anything I don’t truly mean. I want to make one connection with you, and that connection is love. If you’re new here, pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee, and let me share what I’m seeing in our world when it comes to spirituality in America.

I’ve been giving my life to reaching people I call spiritual refugees, the millions who have stepped away from organized religion but not from spirituality itself. These are people I deeply love. My calling is simple. I’m going after the one, just like the shepherd Jesus described, not to fix them or send them back, but to love them and listen. That’s it. No agenda, no pressure, no attempt to pull them back into something that may have hurt them.

What I’ve heard in their stories is real pain. There is trauma tied to institutions, to leadership failures, to exclusion, to systems that lost their way. At the same time, I’ve seen leaders exhausted and overwhelmed trying to keep something afloat that may already be sinking. And through all of it, I keep coming back to this. If love isn’t the center, if love isn’t the only thing we’re offering, then we’ve missed it.

So my role now is not to rebuild institutions. My role is to love and to listen. To bear burdens. To sit with people where they are. I believe if we ever find our way forward, it will be through a return to love as the only creed that matters. Until then, I’ll keep showing up this way, inviting you to breathe, to be present, and to say the words that can still change everything. I love you.

Today we are tackling the hardest subject of love in just two words: Enemy Love. Most of us have been trained to think that "loving our enemies" just means being nice to people who gossip about us. But I’m here to step in the path and say that being nice is not the same as loving. Jesus flipped the script on a world built on "us versus them," and his way of enemy love eventually got him a death sentence.

In this episode, we’re going deep into the elimination of the "pitched battle" between good people and bad people. I’m talking about managing your own soul not the other person and learning to see people as "wholes, not souls" to be won or conquered. This isn't a once-and-for-all arrival; it’s a heavy-lifting mountain climb.

I refuse to be the enemy of anyone, anywhere, at any time. It’s a tall order, but it’s the only way to live that’s superior to all the BS of our world. Ugly is getting done to death—let’s go out and do something beautiful instead.

Want to dive deeper? I’d love to hear from you or share more about the "heavy lifting of love." You can reach me at RandyDeanMinistries@gmail.com.

In this episode, I’m reflecting on what it really means to take a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourselves. Borrowing from the fourth step of recovery, I invite us to look honestly into the “kitchen of our soul” and ask what’s really cooking inside of us. If we want to live lives rooted in love, we have to face the places where anger, resentment, or hatred might still be burning within us.

Too often in religious spaces we become experts at taking other people’s moral inventory while ignoring our own. But the invitation of Jesus is something far more demanding and far more beautiful: love your enemies. That kind of love doesn’t come from bumper-sticker spirituality. It comes from deep inner work, from examining ourselves honestly so we stop projecting our own brokenness onto the world around us.

I explore what Jesus meant when he said, Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. This isn’t about flawless performance, it’s about setting our sights on the far horizon of love. When our aim is love, it reshapes how we see enemies, neighbors, and even ourselves. The work of faith becomes less about condemning others and more about transforming our own hearts.

At the end of the day, the revolution I’m talking about is simple but demanding: a life devoted to love alone. That means breathing in love, letting go of fear and retribution, and learning to say the three words that can turn a life around, I love you. When we commit to that path, we begin to do something beautiful in a world that’s already had far too much ugly.