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September 2015

September 15, 2015

In this time of intense polarization

I cannot help but to wonder:

September 01, 2015

And Still We Rise

The poet Mark Nepo writes that when “we find ourselves in an emergency at night,...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

As we re-member, a love note to NOLA and to life

This is a love note to my people, to friends and family and strangers who...

August 18, 2015

In times of grief and struggle, remember, friends

July 2015

July 28, 2015

BLACK LIVES MATTER

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 2015 General Assembly recognizes that the fight for civil...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

News Flash: Banana Cream Pie Eats Planet

Time Share Proposition: The Earth is a time-share condo. Like a time-share condo, each of...

June 16, 2015

Choose Love

After years filled with state sanctioned violence and murder against people of color, the #BlackLivesMatter...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

That’s Why They Call It Practice

Sit Down, Kid When I was in my early 20s, I decided to dedicate myself...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

My Tribe by Alberto Blanco: A Way to Belong

In celebration of National Poetry Month, a translation from the great Mexican poet Alberto Blanco....

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

The Unitarian Universalist (UU) faith has taken the stand that “Advancing the human rights of...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

a love poem for a holy week

Happiness is this moment alive in the sunshine knowing I am Loved.

March 10, 2015

Closing the Faith Gap – Restoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965

“We all have two religions: the religion we talk about and the religion we live....

January 2015

January 13, 2015

As the movement builds, let us remember

I learned in school that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream....

December 2014

December 25, 2014

The ‘Ol Heave Ho Ho

You’ve seen them spilling off the paved trail into the woods; you’ve seen them in...

December 23, 2014

Healing in the darkness…

Beloveds, may peace and a time for some internal housecleaning be yours in this holiday...

December 16, 2014

Don’t Let the Light Go Out

The Feast of Hanukkah, commemorating the rededication of the Temple in particular and the resistance...

December 11, 2014

White Privilege: Kumbaya Won’t Cut It

How Sad A sad fact: Many things that are good for society or the earth itself...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

On this #Ferguson #Thanksgiving, America:—What’s Your Mission Statement?

The British novelist Charles Dickens toured the US in the early 1840s. Dickens was considerably...

November 25, 2014

“the war against dehumanization is ceaseless”

"They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is...

November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day

In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1915) In Flanders fields the poppies blow...

November 04, 2014

Election Day, November 4, 2014

Today is the day, friends. The day to VOTE. This is the day when we...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Please

Tonight we stood together around candles that marked the spot where his body was found...

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

“May beauty and passion and compassion be our companions. May we be fully alive. Amen.”...

October 07, 2014

Moving at the speed of gratitude

This morning Sitting with the grief of more painful news I pick up my pen...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

A Summer Memory

for Maggie and Lewis As the dimming fall welcomes me back, a summer memory...

September 08, 2014

Blessings from Heaven

This past weekend I had the chance to do one of my favorite things. Presiding...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Keep the Faith

This morning I tended to my garden and that of an elder neighbor....

June 2014

June 17, 2014

Love is the Boss of Me

Recently an organizer asked for a meeting and I went to pull out my phone...

June 10, 2014

Disappear or Die: Southern Black Trans-Experience

Today we bless Tela La’Raine Love as she prepares for her gender reassignment surgery. ...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

What He Deserves

I’m deliberately late to the discussion of Elliot Rodgers’s homicidal spree. If you haven’t read...