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April 2020

April 27, 2020

“What is it you plan to do with your one wild & precious life?”: The Life-saving, Ecstatic Poetry of Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019) has been called “America’s most beloved poet” by no less...

April 21, 2020

“If the Climate Was a Bank, They Would Have Already Rescued It”: 50th Anniversary of #EarthDay

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, which was held on April...

April 17, 2020

What’s Next? Bart Ehrman’s History of the Afterlife

What happens next is a very human question. These days, so many of us are...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

How to Reimagine Your Life during a Pandemic

One of the books I have been reading during such a time as this is...

March 26, 2020

Spiritual Practices for “Sheltering in Place”: Inclining Your Heart & Mind toward Spaciousness

There are a lot of scary headlines out there. And even though we can’t control...

March 16, 2020

Spiritual Practices for a Pandemic: Connection, Meaning, & Hope in the Time of Coronavirus

At the congregation where I serve as minister, we recently had the opportunity to hear...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

The Stories We Tell Matter: “An African-American & Latinx History of the United States”

We are now in the final week of Black History Month, an annual reminder about...

February 20, 2020

“The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry”

Lorraine Hansberry died in 1965 at the far too young age of thirty-four. In those...

February 11, 2020

The Tangled Tree of Life: Celebrating #DarwinDay 2020

Charles Darwin was born two hundred and eleven years ago this Wednesday, on February 12,...

February 06, 2020

The Love of Wisdom & the Wisdom of Love

For the Ordination of Scot Hull as a Unitarian Universalist Minister Traditional Reading (Proverbs 3:13-18):...

January 2020

January 08, 2020

Marie Kondo, Animism, & Changing Your Life

Happy New Year! And happy new decade! For anyone wondering, yes I’m aware that since...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

Top 10 Best Books Read this Decade: 2010-2019

The following are the top ten best books I’ve read this decade--in alphabetical order by...

December 28, 2019

November 2019

November 20, 2019

What’s Holding Us Back & How Do We Go from Here?

In early August, the news spread around the world that Toni Morrison (1931-2019) had died....

November 12, 2019

How Change Happens: Why do some social movements succeed & others fail?

What does (and doesn’t) work in building the better world we dream about? Why do...

November 04, 2019

How Democracies Die & An Education in Hope

On Sunday, we passed the mark of being one year away from the next U.S....

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter for Such a Time as This

If you were enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, one of your required...

October 24, 2019

Earthrise, Big History, & Deep Time

I. Big History The English writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his...

October 14, 2019

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Scientific Knowledge, & the Teachings of Plants

Joy Harjo is our current United States Poet Laureate, and the first enrolled member of...

October 10, 2019

“If You’re Not at the Table, You May Be on the Menu”: Principles of Social Justice

Here’s the thing about big words such as community, peace, liberty, and justice: they mean...

October 03, 2019

Open, Direct, Mutual, Present, Spontaneous—without judgement or agenda: Martin Buber’s Life of Dialogue

We are in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days, which stretch from Rosh...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

“This Life: Secular Faith & Spiritual Freedom”

Martin Hägglund (1976 - ), originally from Sweden, is a professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities...

September 17, 2019

How to be “10% Happier”

At the end of many classes and events, there is an opportunity to complete an...

September 11, 2019

Alienated Labor, B.S. Jobs, & the Dream of a 15-Hour Work Week

Among anthropologists, there’s a classic story about a western missionary meeting an indigenous inhabitant of...

July 2019

July 01, 2019

What Is Your Most Vulnerable Wish for Someone?: to Bless, to Hope, to Ordain

On the occasion of ordaining a new minister in the Unitarian Universalist Living Tradition. One of my...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

The 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising: Riots, Rebellion, Liberation, & Pride

There is a fascinating passage from President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address that has stuck with...

March 2019

March 08, 2019

A Clock on the Floor Runs Slower than One on a Table—& Other Wild Truths about Time

In the seventeenth century, the English politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) wrote of all we might...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

From Stigma to Dignity: America’s First Mental Health Court

Ginger Lerner-Wren thought she knew what she was getting into. In 1996, she ran as...

February 12, 2019

Celebrating Darwin Day: “The Book That Changed America”

Charles Darwin was born two hundred and ten years ago today on February 12, 1809....

January 2019

January 31, 2019

“We the Corporations?!”

Adam Winkler (1967-) is a professor of constitutional law at UCLA. I first encountered him...