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2013-05-09T11:07:44-04:00

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Pragmatic Buddhism, Westernized Dharma, 21st-century Sangha

Last updated on: May 9, 2013 at 11:07 am By Carl Gregg

When I was about fifteen years old, I accidentally ran into some of the classic early meditation experiences described in the ancient texts and my reluctant spiritual quest began. I did not realize what had happened, nor did I realize that I had crossed something like a point of no return, something I would later call “The Arising and Passing Away.” I knew that I had had a very strange dream with bright lights, that my entire body and world... Read more

Unitarian Universalism

2014-12-27T09:14:20-05:00

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Wendell Berry, Climate Change, and Earth Breathing

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 9:14 am By Carl Gregg

Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and for more than forty years, he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Kentucky. Berry is also a well-known environmental activist, and he will be present to participate this summer at the annual Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, which this year will be in Louisville, Kentucky. Berry will be joining thousands of Unitarian Universalists from around the continent on Thursday, June 20... Read more

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2013-04-16T15:21:38-04:00

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Pope Fail: Francis Throws the “Nuns on the Bus” Under the Bus

Last updated on: April 16, 2013 at 3:21 pm By Carl Gregg

I celebrated many of Pope Francis’ early acts of compassionate humility — especially his subversion of the Maundy Thursday ritual by washing the feet of youth prisoners, including two Muslim girls. I’m always grateful when I hear about prominent Christian leaders actually doing Jesus-like acts of justice and love. (For more, see “Red Shoes or Black Shoes? Does It Matter?: On the Symbolism of Pope Francis.”) However, I was disheartened to read this morning in The New York Times that the... Read more

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2026-04-14T20:53:14-04:00

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Creativity as Spiritual Practice: A Spirituality of Spring

Last updated on: April 14, 2026 at 8:53 pm By Carl Gregg

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any — lifted... Read more

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2013-04-10T10:41:38-04:00

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In Defense of My Interfaith Marriage

Last updated on: April 10, 2013 at 10:41 am By Carl Gregg

A guest post from Magin LaSov Gregg: One day in 2004, I was chatting away with my best friend. During a conversational lull she said — in her most well meaning way — “You would be a perfect candidate for Jews for Jesus.” She had a point. At 24, I’d fallen in love with a Baptist minister, much to the surprise of my Jewish family and friends. They envisioned a Bible-thumping Jerry Falwell type, complete with potbelly and televangelist hair.... Read more

Unitarian Universalist

2014-12-27T09:12:37-05:00

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Did You Just Send That Woman To a Church To Get Help with an Abortion?

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 9:12 am By Carl Gregg

Today, in the year 2013, when we reflect on what it means to talk about reproductive justice, we are inherit a strong history. To remember how we reached this present moment, we invite you to hear ten landmark changes in the history of reproductive justice. Because we have to begin somewhere, it is significant to note how long contraception has been a controversial in our nation. In the 1850s, amid opposition from conservatives and feminists alike, the first rubber condoms... Read more

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2014-12-27T09:12:08-05:00

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Highlights from Jesus Seminar on the Road

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 9:12 am By Carl Gregg

The following are my notes from the annual Jesus Seminar on the Road in D.C., which this year was on April 5 on “Jesus and Politics in His Time and Ours”: Early Christians turned Jesus into a divine Savior who demanded worship. The historical Jesus, however, talked about the Kingdom of God, not about himself. Jesus did more than simply talk about the Kingdom. He lived and invited others to live this radical vision of human life under God’s rule... Read more

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2014-12-27T09:11:50-05:00

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Practice Resurrection

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 9:11 am By Carl Gregg

There’s a man I’d like to tell you about — a man named Hermann Gunkel. But before I tell you about him, I would like to tell you about two groups that I also wish could meet Mr. Gunkel. The first group to whom I’d like to introduce Mr. Gunkel is conservative Christians. I spent a lot of time in my childhood in conservative Christian congregations, and there was much emphasis on belief — believing doctrines on Good Friday such... Read more

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2013-03-21T01:45:55-04:00

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What Is Our Conveyer Belt? Stages of Faith

Last updated on: March 21, 2013 at 1:45 am By Carl Gregg

This post’s title (“What Is Our Conveyer Belt?”) is a reference to a chapter in philosopher Ken Wilber’s book Integral Spirituality. One of Wilber’s particular interests is in stages of development. Both individually and in groups there is potential to progress through stages of development along many different lines. For example, there are stages of kinesthetic development as babies learn to first hold their neck up, then roll over, crawl, walk, and run — and some people even reach Olympic... Read more

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2013-03-11T15:21:42-04:00

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Preventing Gun Violence

Last updated on: March 11, 2013 at 3:21 pm By Carl Gregg

Consider the following sampling of gun violence in the U.S., drawn only from the weekend of March 2-3, 2013: The 4-year-old son of a Jackson County, Mich., Sheriff’s Deputy accidentally shot and killed himself Saturday night…around 5 p.m. at the deputy’s home. A 61-year-old man is dead after his gun apparently accidentally discharged, striking him once in the upper body, at the St. Charles Sportsman’s Club in Waldorf, Md. Officers were called Saturday at 9:23 a.m. Toni Voss, 27, was shot and... Read more

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