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December 2017

December 27, 2017

The 50th Anniversary of MLK’s “Christmas Sermon on Peace”

Fifty years ago, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) invited The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,...

December 19, 2017

What Do Star Wars & Impeachment Have in Common? Or: Jediism, Invented Religions, & the Spirituality of the Force

Cass Sunstein is a Harvard Professor who also happens to be the most frequently-cited legal...

December 14, 2017

Contemplative-Curious: What Happens on an 8-Day Meditation Retreat?

Carrie Newcomer is a Quaker singer-songwriter. And there is a line from one of her...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

“The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism”

Edward Baptist, a history professor at Cornell University, is the author of a powerful book...

November 21, 2017

“Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Navigating the Bioethics of the Near Future”

The best guide I have found recently for glimpsing into forthcoming bioethical challenges to come...

November 14, 2017

Where Does Creativity Come From? David Lynch, Twin Peaks, & Transcendental Meditation

Have you ever wondered where creativity comes from? And why do some people seems to...

November 07, 2017

“Daring Democracy”

Democracy was born in ancient Athens. 2,500 years ago, around the turn from the 5th...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Martin Luther & the Law of Unintended Consequences #Reformation500

Today, the celebration on most people’s minds is Halloween. Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for trick-or-treating!...

October 27, 2017

“You Say You Want a Revolution”: Insights for Today on the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution

This month marks both the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the...

October 19, 2017

Immigrants Make America Great

“I remember standing in the hallways of that same CNN where Lou Dobbs worked, and...

October 12, 2017

Cynic or Fool? How to Not “Go Low” When We Can’t Agree on Facts

Michelle Obama famously called us to be our best selves as citizens: “When someone is...

October 04, 2017

Universalism, Then & Now: Insights from the Life of Orestes Brownson

Patrick Carey, a theology professor, who has written the best modern biography of Orestes Brownson...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

When to Not Tolerate Intolerance? Insights from the Jewish Tradition on Yom Kippur

It is vital not to forget this Yom Kippur, a time in the Jewish tradition...

September 22, 2017

Islam in America

This post is a continuation of yesterday's theme of "American Muslims." Regarding the first line...

September 21, 2017

American Muslims

There are approximately 1.5 billion Muslims in the world today, making it the world’s second...

September 14, 2017

The Revolution in Bioethics is Already Here: from “Gene-editing” to “Genome Engineering”

(This post is a continuation of my topic yesterday on "Bioethics, CRISPR, & “Our Children...

September 13, 2017

Bioethics, CRISPR, & “Our Children Redesigned”

Have you been following the breaking news about the revolutionary new gene-editing technology CRISPR? Not...

September 08, 2017

Beyond $15: The Sturdy Floor of a Universal Basic Income #21stCenturyUniversalism

The “Fight for 15” is a current goal of the labor movement to secure both...

September 01, 2017

Insights from Octavia Butler’s 1998 Novel that Predicted a “Make American Great Again” President

This post is a continuation of yesterday's theme of "Orwell, Atwood, Butler: Reading for Resistance...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Orwell, Atwood, Butler: Reading for Resistance & Resilience in the Age of Trump

This summer at the congregation where I serve as minister, we hosted a three-part book...

August 23, 2017

Jungian Reflections on Jesus from the “Second Half of Life”

Fourteen years ago, I moved to Louisiana to serve as the Associate Pastor in a progressive...

August 18, 2017

Octopuses & Other Minds: “The Deep Origins of Consciousness”

This post is a continuation of my topic yesterday on "What Do Animals Think &...

August 17, 2017

What Do Animals Think & Feel?

2,500 years ago, a Greek philosopher named Protagoras (c. 490 – c. 420 BCE) declared...

August 11, 2017

Is Your Religion “Grown up?”

My post yesterday was on “waking up” into different states of consciousness. My focus today...

August 10, 2017

What Does It Mean to “Wake up” or “Get Enlightened”?

Ken Wilber (1949-) is a contemporary American philosopher who has written a host of books...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Dissent: For Such a Time as This

(This post is a continuation of yesterday's theme of "Dissent.") When considering the ongoing struggle...

July 20, 2017

Dissent

In my tradition of Unitarian Universalism, it is significant to recall that this past Wednesday...

July 14, 2017

Robots (Not Immigrants) Are Coming for Your Job: Promise & Peril of Dataism as Religion

(This post is a continuation of yesterday's post on “A Brief History of Tomorrow”: What Apple,...

July 13, 2017

“A Brief History of Tomorrow”: What Apple, Facebook, & Google Don’t Want You to Know

I have posted previously about the bestselling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by...

June 2017

June 15, 2017

Chögyam Trungpa & the Level/Line Fallacy

(This post is a continuation of yesterday's post on "Chögyam Trungpa & Pragmatic, Modern Meditation.")...