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September 24, 2015

What Ta-Nehisi Coates Taught Me About “People Who Believe They Are White”

In the book Learning to Be White, the Unitarian Universalist minister and scholar Thandeka writes that, “No one...

September 17, 2015

“Unsanctifying Human Life”: Wrestling with Peter Singer’s Ethics

Our human population has septupled (increased sevenfold) in a mere two centuries — from approximately 1 billion...

September 01, 2015

Celebrating Mixed Religion: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Syncretism

The summer after my freshman year in college, Sarah McLachlan released her album Surfacing. Among...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

What’s Next After “Spiritual But Not Religious”?

Editor's Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith...

August 13, 2015

Why You Should Give Yourself Permission for Self-Care: Cautionary Tales from UU History

There was an article in a recent issue of The New York Times Magazine titled...

August 06, 2015

The Spirituality of Embodiment: “The Science of Yoga” and Befriending Your Body

One way of classifying the various methods of self-improvement that one can pursue is to...

August 06, 2015

“Are You Living the Life You Chose?”: How To Discern Your Call

The new album from the singer-songwriter Jason Isbell includes a song with the lyrics “Are...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Top Ten Highlights from The Cornel West Reader

Dr. Cornel West (1953-), the provocative activist, public intellectual, and professor at Union Theological Seminary in...

June 02, 2015

“Liberal Religion in the Public Square”

Each year the Unitarian Universalist Association chooses one book as a “Common Read,” and encourages...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

“The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene”

Some of you may remember the controversy in the late 1980s when the film director...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

What Do We Mean We When Say, “Building the Beloved Community”?

In progressive religious circles, you will often hear calls to “build the Beloved Community,” but I’m...

March 13, 2015

“A God That Could Be Real”

After Copernicus, we know that Earth is not at the center of the universe. Our...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Chocolate for Lent

Lent (the forty-day period of preparation for Easter Sunday) has a bad reputation in some...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Top 10 Best Netflix Streamed in 2014

This list is not my favorite new releases of the year. Instead, it is the...

December 11, 2014

Top 10 Best Albums Listened to in 2014

This list is not my favorite new releases; instead, it is the best of the...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Jewish Readings of Christian Scripture: Parables as Deeds Not Creeds

Yesterday I posted about "Reading the Same Text Differently with Jews & Christians Read" about the...

October 21, 2014

The Meaning of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) for Today

Parker Palmer, in his modern spiritual classic A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

The Sacred in Music

Poetry and music engage us in ways beyond what can be contained in prose alone....

August 19, 2014

Tectonic Shifts in the Global Religious Landscape since WWI

The Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism set a high bar. To list only a few examples:...

August 07, 2014

The Secret Six: Violence & Nonviolence in Unitarianism & Universalism

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed....

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Why Universalism? “Loving the Hell Out of the World?”

Last week I posted my response to the question “Why Unitarianism?” This week, I will explore...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

“Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses”

Incense fills the nostrils of a Krishna devotee in a temple in Vrindavan, India, letting...

June 19, 2014

“Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World”

“Seventh-Generation Thinking” means considering the longterm impact of our actions even to the seventh generation...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

Mother’s Day for All

Julia Ward Howe is most famous for writing the Battle Hymn of the Republic in...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Brené Brown and the Gifts of Imperfection

Laila Ibrahim, the Director of Children and Family Ministries at the First Unitarian Church of...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Religious Mystic & Rational Humanist: The Mystical Humanism of Jeffrey Kripal

For days, I had been participating in the annual Bengali celebration of the goddess Kali...

March 11, 2014

Becoming a Buddha, not a Buddhist

This post is the second in a four-part series on “A Journey with Four Spiritual...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

“Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall”: Claiming Our Social Justice Story

Monday, January 21, 2013 was a High Holy Day in our nation’s "civil religion.” The...