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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 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 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...

November 2016

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...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Public Service Reminder

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” - Annie...

September 2016

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

Hand Me A Pickaxe, Please! I Need Hope!

I’ve been thinking lately about despair and hope, especially for people like me who live...

September 20, 2016

Trauma Stewardship?

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

September 01, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Five

Last week I continued a discussion of the Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly called...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Four

Last week I continued a discussion of the Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly called...

August 18, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Three

Last week I continued a discussion of the seven Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly...

August 04, 2016

Stoic Mindfulness

As the number of the post-religious skyrockets in the United States, the “mindfulness” train is...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

May 2016

May 18, 2016

Explicitly Black UU Healing Spaces: Spiritual Compassion Practice at GA 2016

[A note of gratitude and a heart full of appreciation to the Rev. Carlton Elliot...

May 05, 2016

#Mindfulness and the View We Take of Things

One on Every Corner There’s a lot of talk about spiritual practice these days. “Mindfulness”...

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...

March 2016

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 16, 2016

The heartwork of coming alive

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

February 11, 2016

On Prayer

Emily Dickinson wrote, Of Course I prayed And did God Care? He cared as much...

February 04, 2016

Love Thy Neighbor As . . .

There’s an old Buddhist story that goes like this: Once a mother found her baby...

February 02, 2016

Carnival Redux, epiphanies too!

While revelation is ever unfolding, sometimes it is worth looking back through the transience for...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Why Would Anyone Want to be a Minister?

My mother says I was born serious. Could be. For example, I remember that when...

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...

December 01, 2015

Giving TUUesday

While many people in this country go to work and get paid, social change workers...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Grace for the Rest of Us

Grace. Some say it before meals. Some have it for a name. Grace-ful people have...

November 24, 2015

Fear Not

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

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 21, 2015

Things that get in the way

I often tell the story of the time my Chaplain Supervisor told me, “Deanna, I...

October 01, 2015

Looking For #Happiness, Epicurean Style

Who doesn’t want to be happy? Everybody wants to be happy. The trouble starts when...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

When I breathe in…

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