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November 2022

November 03, 2022

Is There An Antidote to Bad Faith? How Minds Change & Deep Canvassing

A congregant said to me recently, “Many of us would like to love our neighbors...

August 2022

August 23, 2022

“Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves”

I suspect we could all make a long list of the major problems facing us...

August 16, 2022

“Imagining How a More Just World Might Feel”: The Life & Legacy of Woody Guthrie

I first came to Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) by way of Bob Dylan (1941-). Regarding Guthrie’s...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

“Dream a Little Before You Think”: Dorothy Pitman Hughes & the Ripple Effects of Activism

I started making plans for this post almost a year ago, when I saw that...

March 21, 2022

Building a New Mythology

In the early twentieth century, a tradition began of celebrating March 8th as International Women’s...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

An Afro-Indigenous History of the US — Past, Present, & Future

The stories we tell matter. And each telling of history—all the varied stories of our...

January 2022

January 06, 2022

“Survival Is Insufficient”: What Will You Do with Your Four Thousand Weeks?

Have you been watching the Station Eleven tv series on HBO? Or did you read...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

September 2021

September 17, 2021

Admit it: You “Pick & Choose,” So Why Not Choose Love?

Prior to becoming a Unitarian Universalist minister in 2012, I served as a pastor in...

September 10, 2021

The Past, Present, & Future of Work

This past Monday was Labor Day. In addition to enjoying a three-day weekend, it is...

August 2021

August 25, 2021

“Fierce Self-Compassion”

When I am researching a forthcoming blog post, I typically draw on books that have...

August 11, 2021

Doubts & Loves: Israel/Palestine, Perspectives, & Peace

In February 2020, I received an invitation to help lead a tour of Israel and...

August 03, 2021

Yasodhara: The Forgotten Story of the Buddha’s Wife

Growing up in a theologically conservative congregation in South Carolina, I was taught that there...

July 2021

July 14, 2021

Boundaries, Healing, & Hope: How to Shift Out of Survival Mode

We have been living through an extraordinarily hard time in world history, including years of...

July 06, 2021

“Imagine There’s No Countries”: Interdependence Day & Immigration Justice

There’s an old joke in Unitarian Universalist (UU) circles that if there’s one “St. John”...

June 2021

June 20, 2021

Climate Justice, Courage, & Hope

I’ve read quite a few books about climate change over the past year, but I...

June 06, 2021

The Stories We Tell Matter: On the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre

The stories we tell matter. The choices we make about which stories to teach our...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

What Does #DefundThePolice Really Mean? Awakening Our Abolitionist Imaginations

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. Michael Eric Dyson, in...

February 2021

February 01, 2021

Love, Rage, & Radical Dharma

In early January I received a call from a nearby community college. They had a...

January 2021

January 26, 2021

Another World Is Possible: What Does Prison Abolition Really Mean?

If you hang out long enough with social justice activists, you’ll eventually hear the classic...

January 18, 2021

“Martin & Malcolm & America”

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. King was born in 1929, and if...

January 12, 2021

Sacred Liberty & Desolating Sacrilege: On the Storming of the United States Capitol

Introduction The violent assault on the United States Capitol Building on Wednesday was shocking and...

January 05, 2021

How to Find Meaning in Life

The year 2021 has finally arrived! And the beginning of a new year is traditionally...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

August 2020

August 19, 2020

“Grandma Was a Suffragette”: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote

The Indigo Girls’ song “Go” includes these lyrics: Grandma was a suffragette Blacklisted for her...

August 03, 2020

The Death-positive Movement & The Order of the Good Death

As of last week, more than 150,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

Trust Women: Bodies, Laws, & Reproductive Justice

I have posted about reproductive justice once before—seven years ago, in 2013. At that time,...

June 08, 2020

Meditation, Neuroscience, Psychedelics: Who Am I? Who Are You? Who Are We?

Growing up in South Carolina, the first time I can remember really engaging with Black...

May 2020

May 04, 2020

Remembering the Sacrilege of Kent State & Imagining a Better World with Thomas Piketty

I would like to invite you to open your mind and heart to two different...