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June 2017

June 29, 2017

Loving What Happens

Amor fati. The love of (your own) fate. The Stoic philosopher Epictetus appears to have...

April 2017

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...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Risking together

It has been over two decades now, but I still remember being assigned A Feminist...

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...

November 14, 2016

You Are Not Wrong

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

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 08, 2016

Sharing in the Anthropocene

My ethics in terms of economics comes from the first of the Humanist Manifestos: “Humanists...

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 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...

July 2016

July 12, 2016

Black Lives Matter more than White Fear

Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. In Louisiana In Minnesota In Texas Black Lives Matter....

July 08, 2016

A Mathematics of Loss

Mathematics There is no algebra for death. No life lost cancels out another. The idea...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

June 16, 2016

Orlando: God herself Is Inconsolable

When I was coming out as a young lesbian, back in the late 70s and...

June 16, 2016

Swing Vote in the Bitter Election: Reflections on Orlando

The recent massacre in the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida is unfortunately an example...

June 13, 2016

Profile of a Murderer

Don’t get me wrong. I am not generally a fan of profiling. I find it...

May 2016

May 08, 2016

Mother’s Day

Here’s what I want to say for Mother’s Day. Motherhood isn’t just one thing. And...

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...

April 05, 2016

Letter to the Editor

Louisiana is the most incarcerated place in the world. Let's truly sit with that for...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

Cutting Some Slack for Integrity

Reformers. Protestants. Heretics. Loudmouths. William Tyndale’s (1494-1536) crime was translating the bible into English. Tyndale said,...

March 22, 2016

Holy Work in this Holy Week

As the Christian world grieves and celebrates the Passion of Christ during this Holy Week,...

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...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Instructions for the New Year

Beloveds, as we prepare for the new year, I invite you to take a deep...

December 24, 2015

Some Slack for the Tense on the Holidays

I know, I know—some people just love the holiday season—“the hap-, hap-, happiest time of...

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...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

In the Ruins

In the Ruins A man sits on the rubble— not just in the rubble,...

November 15, 2015

In the Face of Evil

So much heartbreak, so many dead, so many injured. This is what evil looks like—people...