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August 2017

August 17, 2017

#Charlottesville and Getting Real

I spent some time in the Czech Republic not long after the Wall fell. One...

August 10, 2017

On the Suppression of Knowledge

This week a New York Times headline reads “Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Climate Change...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

Until the Cows Come Home

(being a personal summary of the Zen story of the Ten Bulls*) As the youngest,...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

Murder and What’s in a Story

Why do we kill each other? I have to admit that when I walk along...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

Savoring The Milquetoast: Why This Humanist Remains a Unitarian Universalist

Why would a Humanist want to be a Unitarian Universalist? As the president of the...

April 06, 2017

Hey, UU, Time For a Redo

Fear. Anxiety. It’s free-floating among those of a liberal bent these days. This week has...

April 04, 2017

In the Name of Love

There has been a lot to process in the Unitarian Universalist world over the past...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Assumptions are Imaginary But They’re not Social

In Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin wrote, Society is held together by our...

March 24, 2017

Smells Like White Racism

A friend posted on Facebook, upset that a qualified person of color had been overlooked...

March 23, 2017

An Antidote to Racial Theatre

Review of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S....

March 16, 2017

Dreaming White

An acquaintance (who is white) once related one of the nightmares of his life. He...

March 14, 2017

Shine on! Faithful living in a breakable world

I spend a lot my time and life energy organizing with the New Orleans community...

March 09, 2017

Bad Theology=Bad Politics

I hear an undercurrent of assumption in much of the current liberal rhetoric—a mythology that...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

A Toolkit for Resisting Totalitarianism

For my money the philosopher Hannah Arendt offers the most profound analysis of the causes...

January 2017

January 05, 2017

Ay Caramba! Decolonizing the Mind

The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony...

December 2016

December 22, 2016

Happy Holidays From the Cruel Optimisms

Isn’t it just a tad too ironic that one of the US national icons is...

December 15, 2016

Communities of Resilience and Resistance

As a young theology student, James Luther Adams watched the Nazi rise to power. For...

December 06, 2016

Risking together

It has been over two decades now, but I still remember being assigned A Feminist...

December 01, 2016

As the People Fell into a Well

JUNK The popular Christian writer Father Richard Rohr says, “If your religion is not showing...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

Now What?

Help me think this through, people. On the one hand, there are folks—good, honorable folks—who...

November 17, 2016

Kick the Dog, Pet the Dog—Off-Loading Anxiety

There’s two things we can do with suffering: we can kick the dog; or we...

November 14, 2016

You Are Not Wrong

You are not wrong if you are grieving. You are not wrong if you are...

November 03, 2016

Social Gospel 2.0: Public Theology and #StandingWithStandingRock

#MoralMonday, #MoralRevival, and #StandingWithStandingRock have ushered in a new day for public theology. Religions can...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Mulligan Stew, Truth, and Worldviews

In the early twentieth century the activist Rosa Luxemburg wrote, “The most revolutionary act is...

October 20, 2016

Outsourced Morality

True confession: I understand Trump voters. I come from that place. We’re the same people...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

The War of Positions and Communities of Resistance

Antonio Gramsci was an early twentieth-century neo-Marxist who died in the 1930s as a result...

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...

September 20, 2016

Trauma Stewardship?

Dear Friends, Happy Autumn! On day one of my summer break a dear friend recommended...

September 15, 2016

Humanism: Without God, Not Anti-God

The September 2016 Atlantic features an article about new Humanist communities titled “A Less Lonely...

September 08, 2016

Sharing in the Anthropocene

My ethics in terms of economics comes from the first of the Humanist Manifestos: “Humanists...