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July 2016

July 28, 2016

Cosmopolitanism in a Time of Petty Nationalism

To be Humanist is to say, with the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, “My city is...

July 21, 2016

When Hope Seems Silly

The life that no longer trusts another human being and no longer forms ties to...

July 14, 2016

Aesop and the Story After Dallas

One of Aesop’s Fables goes like this: Lion once went once hunting with Fox, Jackal,...

July 12, 2016

Black Lives Matter more than White Fear

Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. In Louisiana In Minnesota In Texas Black Lives Matter....

July 07, 2016

They Ain’t Heavy: UU Pluralism and Its Discontents

One of the most serious issues for a tradition such as Unitarian Universalism that has...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Beyond the Congeries of Banks: Finding a Moral Center

After the September 1938 Munich Pact with which the European democracies ceded territory to Nazi...

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

June 16, 2016

Swing Vote in the Bitter Election: Reflections on Orlando

The recent massacre in the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida is unfortunately an example...

June 09, 2016

No Gods, No Masters, and the Humanist Way of Thinking

Humanism developed in late Medieval Christianity, but moved on. European humanism reached high points in...

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...

April 05, 2016

Letter to the Editor

Louisiana is the most incarcerated place in the world. Let's truly sit with that for...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

Cutting Some Slack for Integrity

Reformers. Protestants. Heretics. Loudmouths. William Tyndale’s (1494-1536) crime was translating the bible into English. Tyndale said,...

March 22, 2016

Holy Work in this Holy Week

As the Christian world grieves and celebrates the Passion of Christ during this Holy Week,...

March 15, 2016

The Grace of Learning

In life, there are many things we can learn from other people. And there are...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

To Whom It May Concern: the Humanist/Theist Split in Unitarian Universalism

Since I’m an out-there Humanist, I get asked fairly often how Unitarian Universalists might go...

February 16, 2016

The heartwork of coming alive

“Under all the harsh noise of the world coming in on us, this is how...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

A Shared Life in a Shared World: #Humanist Economics

Grim Numbers Rising economic inequality. We live in a world in which sixty two human...

January 21, 2016

Relax: #Humanism Is Not Mack the Knife

Small Humanist groups are popping up and organizing around the US, some as independent groups,...

January 07, 2016

#Apatheism

This year First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis is celebrating a century of humanism. Rev. John...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Instructions for the New Year

Beloveds, as we prepare for the new year, I invite you to take a deep...

December 10, 2015

Do Your Religion a Favor: Live Up to Its Principles

I meet monthly with the Downtown Senior Clergy of Minneapolis. This week we listened to...

December 03, 2015

Fear, Hope, and Hell In A Hand Basket

I learned to type on a manual typewriter. There’s wasn’t an exclamation point (!) on...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Fear Not

“The one most frequently repeated command in the Bible is not “love your neighbor,” but...

November 23, 2015

Helping Black Lives Matter at the White Thanksgiving Table

Apparently, some people are hoping for Adele to come to their Thanksgiving dinner and soothe...

November 19, 2015

#Terrorism: Religion and Nationalism Aren’t Fixing It

Nothing like a crisis to clarify values. If the terrorist attacks in Paris have clarified...

November 10, 2015

People Who Have Come ALIVE!

What makes you come alive my friend? This week I grateful to bear witness to...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

Words, Words, and the Word Was With . . .

In his play Hamlet, Shakespeare has the character Polonius ask Hamlet, “What do you read,...

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 24, 2015

Musing On Relevance

I meet monthly with clergy colleagues, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian of various stripes, all of...

September 22, 2015

When I breathe in…

A few weeks ago, I shared a sermon called Still We Rise with a congregation in the...