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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...

June 2017

June 01, 2017

An Improvisational People

True confession: I don’t know a chancel from a narthex. This can become a liability...

May 2017

May 18, 2017

I’m an Atheist! Now What?

As I mentioned in my last blog post, unlike progressive traditions such as the United...

May 11, 2017

Could It Get Better? The Problem of Progressivism

I am writing this morning at a McDonalds in a small farm town near my...

May 04, 2017

The National Day of . . . Counter-Narratives #NationalDayofReason

Dominant narratives. They dominate. They tell a story that most people in a group want...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Ashes to Ashes, Humus to Humus, and Humility

Humility. Everyone knows it’s a virtue, since its opposite is . . . what? hubris?...

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 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...

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...

February 16, 2017

Working for Posterity

Sir Boyle Roche was an eighteenth century Irish politician known even today because of his...

February 09, 2017

The True Origin Story

February 12th is the 208th birthday of Charles Darwin. In celebration, I want to look...

February 02, 2017

Building Walls, Banning the Human

“Blame is a valuable antidote to helplessness.” Martha Nussbaum I spent last Monday morning in...

February 01, 2017

Circles of Concern: How to Talk Politics

The bad news is…well, there’s a hell of a lot of it. But the good...

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 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...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

At #Thanksgiving, A Wish for Freedoms

I lost one of my cousins this week. (As a hillbilly, I have lots of...

November 14, 2016

You Are Not Wrong

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

November 10, 2016

A Republic If You Can Keep It

I’ve long been a member of PEN America, a writers group dedicated to freedom of...

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...

October 06, 2016

Theology is Words, Words Matter

When people first visit First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, a very common first response to...

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 22, 2016

Ganesha, Nietzsche, Truth, Consequences

The story goes that Shiva—one of the chief manifestations of divinity in Hinduism—and his...

September 20, 2016

Trauma Stewardship?

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