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2014-12-27T08:53:33-05:00

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“Atheism for Lent”: The Spiritual Practice of Doubt

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 8:53 am By Carl Gregg

A few months ago, I wrote a post on “Poetically Dwelling on the Earth as a Mortal,” which was in honor of my favorite undergraduate philosophy professor, James Edwards. Dr. Edwards was the most well-known, articulate, and matter-of-fact of atheist at my college. And suffice it to say that in the late 1990s in South Carolina there were very few “out” atheists. I had a few good friends in high school that were self-professed agnostics, but Dr. Edwards was —... Read more

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2014-02-10T11:11:32-05:00

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Evolutionary Religion

Last updated on: February 10, 2014 at 11:11 am By Carl Gregg

A tradition has arisen in many progressive congregations of having a worship service near Charles Darwin’s birthday (February 12) with an annual focus on the ways that evolution impacts, influences, and informs the practice of religion in the twenty-first century. A related tradition around Darwin’s birthday is an annual surge in “Religion versus Science” stories across all forms of media. For the most part, these “Religion versus Science” debates produce more heat than light. The most prominent example I’ve seen... Read more

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2014-02-03T11:18:57-05:00

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

Last updated on: February 3, 2014 at 11:18 am By Carl Gregg

Monday, January 21, 2013 was a High Holy Day in our nation’s “civil religion.” The second inauguration for our country’s first black president was itself highly symbolic, but that day in January had the additional symbolism of being both Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and the anniversary month of Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. What a stunning three-step sweep of history from President Lincoln’s 1863 executive order freeing all slaves, one hundred year later to Dr. King’s 1963 dream that,... Read more

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2014-12-27T08:48:29-05:00

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“Help, Thanks, Wow,” Part 3 of 3

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 8:48 am By Carl Gregg

This post is the third and final part in a series of three posts inspired by Anne Lamott’s book Help, Thanks, Wow Ann Lamott’s initial claim was that, “Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me,’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’” But more than a decade later, she wisely added a third essential prayer: “Wow.” And cultivating a prayerful sense of awe at the stunning beauty of the universe is another spiritual practice... Read more

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2014-01-30T08:45:53-05:00

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“Help, Thanks, Wow,” Part 2 of 3

Last updated on: January 30, 2014 at 8:45 am By Carl Gregg

This post is the second in a series of three posts inspired by Anne Lamott’s book Help, Thanks, Wow The second of Lamott’s “three essential prayers” is thanks. Religious progressives find ourselves on more universally safe ground here on the value of expressing gratitude. As the 13th-century mystic Meister Eckhart said, “If the only prayer you say in your entire life is ‘Thank You,’ that would suffice.” And choosing to emphasize the positive and focus on the good parts of your life... Read more

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2014-01-29T10:12:10-05:00

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“Help, Thanks, Wow,” Part 1 of 3

Last updated on: January 29, 2014 at 10:12 am By Carl Gregg

This post is the first in a series of three posts inspired by Anne Lamott’s book Help, Thanks, Wow Anne Lamott is a social justice activist and bestselling author, known for her autobiographical books. I first encountered her through a book she published more than a decade ago titled Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, which helped establish her reputation as a provocative and hilarious writer on spirituality. From that book, one of the lines that resonated most with me was her... Read more

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2014-12-27T09:00:41-05:00

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Why Jung Threw the Yijing (or I Ching) and Why Might You?

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 9:00 am By Carl Gregg

This year the Chinese New Year will begin on what we call January 31st on our Gregorian (or “Western”) calendar. And when I was considering a good date to explore both the history and potential contemporary meaning of the I Ching, one of China’s contributions to the classics of world religious literature, a time close to the Chinese New Year seemed auspicious. And when considering criteria such as “longevity, domestic significance, and global spread,” scholars rank the I Ching in... Read more

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2014-01-23T11:52:52-05:00

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Protesting as Prayer & Life as a Work of Art: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 11:52 am By Carl Gregg

The Second of Unitarian Universalism’s Six Sources is “Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love.” In that spirit, I want to share some stories about Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972). Rabbi Heschel was one of the great prophetic figures of the twentieth-century. To many observers, it was as if one of the biblical prophets had been reborn in our own day.... Read more

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2014-12-27T08:59:53-05:00

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If You Eat at Restaurants, a Look “Behind the Kitchen Door”

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 8:59 am By Carl Gregg

Sara Jayaraman’s book Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press, 2013) is this year’s Unitarian Universalist Association Common Read, a book chosen annually for all UUs to read, discuss, and potentially act on. The book is dedicated “To the more than 10 million restaurant workers nationwide, who struggle daily to feed us.” I recommend this important book as well to all who eat in restaurants and care about the fair treatment of restaurant workers. And early on the author tells the... Read more

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2014-01-06T13:40:22-05:00

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What Is Yours (Not) To Do?

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 1:40 pm By Carl Gregg

Two of my favorite quotes have been coming to mind recently as I reflect on the fresh start of a new calendar year. The first quote is from the Roman Catholic monk Thomas Merton, who was both a contemplative, cloistered in a monastery, and an activist, heavily involved in corresponding and meeting in person with those at the forefront of creating social change in the 1960s. In his book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander: There is a pervasive form of... Read more

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