PS

Still Becoming

PS (Perpetual Seminarian) is a warm, practical space for inclusive metaphysical ministers and practitioners (and adjacent seekers) still questioning, learning, and showing up.

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My Background

I’m an inclusive metaphysical minister and DEIBJ educator, writing about practical spirituality for people who serve across traditions, communities, and seasons of becoming. I love helping people remember the fullness of who they are when the world’s definitions of “normal” stop running the show.

About Me

I didn’t arrive here in a straight line. (It wasn’t even a “gayly forward” line.)

I grew up in a tradition that told me my wholeness was a sin. I grew and evolved in lay-ministry, even leading in traditions like that anyway, preaching the very theology that was slowly dismantling me from the inside. And then, across years and crossings I couldn’t have planned, something cracked open. I found my way into progressive faith, inclusive Christianity, and eventually metaphysical practice, interfaith community, Human Design, Tarot, energy work, and so many other empowering ways to find my own inner spiritual ground, fragments from everywhere that somehow, slowly, became a whole.

I’m still becoming. Always learning. Still evolving. And that’s not a disclaimer; it’s the methodology.

I’m an inclusive metaphysical minister and practitioner, facilitator, coach, and DEIBJ educator. I served over 22 years in the military carrying identities the institution didn’t always have room for. I’ve trained soldiers as Equal Opportunity leaders and sat in rooms where the people making decisions about inclusion had never had to think about these things for themselves. I’ve been the outsider and the insider, sometimes in the same room, sometimes in the same breath.

What I’ve learned from all of that is that the ministers and spiritual leaders who are most needed right now are the ones who are still in the process. Not finished. Not “arrived,” as if that’s a real destination. And certainly not performing certainty they don’t actually have.

They’re the ones who keep showing up anyway, keep questioning, keep growing, keep serving, keep finding ways to meet people (and themselves) exactly where they are, even when the tradition they inherited stopped having room for them a long time ago.

That’s who this space is for.

If you’re in ministry, or called toward it (or you recognize that what you do is “ministry,” even if there’s another formal name for your work) and you’ve ever felt like you were doing it slightly sideways from the mainstream, carrying identities or theologies or questions that didn’t fit neatly into the container you were handed, you’re in the right place.

Perpetual Seminarian exists because the formation never actually ends, and because the most honest thing a minister can say is “I’m still learning.” And—because the people most hungry for that kind of honesty are often the ones the best seminaries were built for but couldn’t always reach… or the ones still waiting for a path that actually fits.

I’m genuinely glad you’re here.

Much love,

Stanley

Ongoing Spiritual Formation & Lineage

Pacific School of Religion | Berkeley, CA

  • Graduate Certificate in Spirituality & Social Change, requirements complete, conferral expected 2026

Church of Enlightenment & Metaphysical Chapel of Life

  • Ordained Minister, 2025 – Present
  • Novitiate Minister, 2024-2025
  • Board President (MCL), 2023
  • Member (MCL), 2017 – Present

Quantum Alignment Systems (Dr. Karen Parker)

  • Quantum Human Design Specialist, Level 4, 2024

Core Gift Institute

  • Signature Gifts Facilitator (Teams/Orgs), 2024
  • Core Gift Discovery Master Facilitator, 2023

Applied Depth Institute (Joanna Lindenbaum)

  • Advanced Depth, 2022
  • Sacred Depths Transformational Practitioner Program, 2021

International Metaphysical Ministry (IMM) and University of Metaphysics (UoM)

  • Ordained Metaphysical Minister (IMM), 2017 – Present
  • Certified Metaphysical Practitioner (IMM), 2017 – Present
  • Bachelor of Metaphysical Science (BMsc) (UoM), 2017

Some Other Formational Paths

U.S. Army Reserve & National Guard | 22 years of service, including mobilization on 9/11, multiple deployments to Kuwait and Iraq (2003, 2009, 2020), and service before and after the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

  • Master Game Changer Course (Building Inclusive Teams), U.S. Army TRADOC & Small World Solutions, 2021
  • Certified Equal Opportunity Practitioner, Dept. of Defense EO Management Institute (DEOMI), 2016
  • Certified Mediator, Alternative Dispute Resolution (DEOMI), 2016
  • Certified Instructor, Defense Information School (DINFOS), 2013
  • Unit Victim Advocate, 2011
  • Equal Opportunity Leader, 2009
  • Military Equal Opportunity Advisor of the Year, U.S. Army Reserve, 2022

Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC): Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), 2016

Earlier Christian Influences I’ve spent some time with along the way:

  • The Episcopal Church (Bushwick Abbey, Brooklyn, NY)
  • Christ Chapel Association of Churches (Christ Chapel of the Valley, North Hollywood, CA)
  • The Gay Christian Network (GCN) • (now Q Christian Fellowship)
  • ChristianGays.com

Much Earlier Christian Influences I spent some time with along the way:

  • Southern Baptist Church
  • Independent Baptist Church
  • Free Will Baptist Church
  • Independent Fundamental Baptist Church