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September 2016

September 27, 2016

How Can You Say You Love Me?

The Rabbi Jeffrey Summit [of Tufts Hillel] tells a Hasidic story of the rabbi who...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

April 2016

April 12, 2016

A spiritual responsibility for a moral tomorrow

In case the not so subtle nuances and coded language around race and class that are...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

Things that get in the way

I often tell the story of the time my Chaplain Supervisor told me, “Deanna, I...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

In this time of intense polarization

I cannot help but to wonder:

November 2014

November 04, 2014

Election Day, November 4, 2014

Today is the day, friends. The day to VOTE. This is the day when we...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

“May beauty and passion and compassion be our companions. May we be fully alive. Amen.”...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

The Courage for Compassion

Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.”...

September 02, 2014

When in doubt, choose the side of Compassion

The Thursday following the fundamentalist disruption of worship service at First Unitarian Universalist Church of...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Circle Round for Freedom

The opposite of liberal religion is not conservative religion. It is fundamentalism – the deep...

April 2014

April 01, 2014

Women with a Vision – and a Voice!

Lately I’ve been struggling with the language of the non-profit world: “giving people a...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

When Worlds Collide

I had an interesting conversation with a friend the other day about a controversy in...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Beyonce at Half-Time

OK, I will admit that, in spite of living in the San Francisco Bay Area,...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Pro-Life/Pro-Choice

Let’s start the conversation here. Everybody is pro-life. OK, everybody who is not Lord Voldemort...

January 20, 2013

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, I...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

What God Intends

Let’s be fair, here. I’m sure that Richard Mourdock did not in any way mean...

October 10, 2012

The Connection of Church and State

I am a big fan of the separation of church and state. I do not...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Legitimacy

The furor over Rep. Todd Akin’s astonishingly irresponsible and oft-quoted remarks this week has once...