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February 2013

February 08, 2013

Collective Joy!

It is Carnival time in New Orleans! From now until Ash Wednesday, there will be...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Guns: Relationship Status: “It’s complicated.”

I first held a gun when I was eight years old. One of my uncles...

January 18, 2013

Like-Hearted People

"You need not think alike to love alike." This was the wisdom of Francis David, spiritual...

January 16, 2013

A Place in the Family

I pretty much only listen to radio in the car, which explains how I stumbled...

January 11, 2013

We Are All In This Together

“If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state...

November 2012

November 04, 2012

How to Vote as an Act of Prayer

We’d love to cast a vote for compassion, freedom, justice. But they’re not on the...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Prejudice is Part of Human Nature

We human beings have many times many different prejudices. I’m not trying to make a...

September 02, 2012

Friends: The Spice of Life

If most of our life consists of basic repetitive tasks that are simple and predictable—some...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

Hating Hateful Haters

Last week, advertisements began appearing at commuter train stations in the county where I live...

August 25, 2012

All’s Fair

Here in Minnesota, where I live, the State Fair is the main thing going on....

August 21, 2012

The Mean Season

Like many of you, I am already bemoaning the tone and tenor of the Presidential...

August 14, 2012

Games Without Frontiers

Like so many people I’ve been talking to these past two weeks, I am a...

August 11, 2012

In solidarity with our Sikh sisters and brothers

This past Sunday's horrific shooting at the Oak Creek Sikh Temple just outside Milwaukee is...

August 04, 2012

Fantasy? Myth?

As a minister, I am constantly learning, and sometimes learning about completely unexpected things. At...

June 2012

June 24, 2012

Fear and Love at Tent City

There is a protest at Tent City tonight, the place where Sherriff Joe...

June 10, 2012

“I didn’t say it was fair, I said it was the law.”

I asked my ex, my partner of almost twenty years from whom I separated three...

June 08, 2012

Human Kindness

Imagine this: The day is hot and the line at the gas station is long....

June 02, 2012

Flower Communion

This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of what is known today as...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Safe Harbor

Press power on the remote control, television on and every moment of viewing we are...

May 16, 2012

Still Mulling Over Mitt Scissorhands

Apparently the story of Mitt Romney’s highschool “hijinks” has now moved on from the news...