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December 2012

December 14, 2012

YOU GOT PEOPLE

You Got People This Public Service Announcement brought to you by a Unitarian Universalist minister...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

On Abundance

"We are the people of abundance, people who have known suffering and will know suffering....

November 02, 2012

Voting as Spiritual Practice, as a Neighborly Act…

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away. ~ Wendell Berry ~...

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...

September 2012

September 08, 2012

Motivations

In religion as well as in politics (and probably in innumerable other realms of human...

September 04, 2012

Run for Your Life!

I have always been fairly athletic, and I enjoy playing a good game that gets...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Legitimacy

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

August 02, 2012

Dancing with Scripture

One of the aspects that I believe defines the religious liberal is the acknowledgement that...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

The Meaning of Faith

Faith is not about belief. Faith in fact has very little to do with what...

July 05, 2012

On Being a Murphyist

I have spent the last seven years in the occasional study of a religious system...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

The New Face of Courage

Courage comes in many forms and it wears many faces. We often think of those...

June 19, 2012

Saying Goodbye

A few years ago, a member of my congregation with a background in science asked...

June 16, 2012

Improv to Improve

I recently participated in a church board of trustees’ retreat in which a congregant, Travis...

June 06, 2012

Summer and Sabbath

My thirteen-year-old daughter and I have different ideas about what it is that she will...

June 05, 2012

A Case For Religion

A growing number of people in the United States define themselves as “spiritual but not...

June 04, 2012

Spiritual Drought & Restoration

I have to be mindful of the baskets of flowers that hang below the eaves....

June 02, 2012

Flower Communion

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

May 2012

May 07, 2012

Professionalism and Pluralism in the Military Chaplaincy

In the fall of 2011 I was honored to attend the first ever OutServe Leadership...