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July 2014

July 10, 2014

Eleanor Rigby’s Selfie

We learned from the Beatles that Eleanor Rigby “keeps her face in a jar by...

July 08, 2014

Keep the Faith

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

June 2014

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 14, 2014

We’ve Come This Far…

For her 75th birthday, my Granny talked my dad, her 4th born son, into driving...

May 06, 2014

Give me the heart

I have spent the past few days saturated in extraordinary music, delicious food, dear friends...

May 01, 2014

Carrots, Sticks, Paddles, and Autopilot

Buddhist wisdom says there are three ways we naturally approach anything—desire, aversion, or indifference. For...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

However They Have Writ the Style of Gods: Wounds and Healing

Here is the beautiful truth—saints and sinners are the same from the start. Hsu Yun,...

April 22, 2014

Earth Day Notes from New Orleans

Last week the Center hosted two groups of youth, one primarily people of color, one...

April 15, 2014

Earth: Our Deep Home Place

The Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalist cluster gathered in an oak -filled park on Sunday...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

In Which Cackling Self Vanquishes Wild Grief, While Rational Self Could Not

Newsflash: Grief is completely irrational. Does this surprise me? Not rationally. I knew it, know...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Nomination for Most Necessary Picture: Twelve Years a Slave

I wish I could talk to my Great-Aunt Marie about the movie Twelve Years a...

February 25, 2014

It’s Carnival Time!

Al “Carnival Time” Johnson sings “it’s Carnival Time and everybody’s havin’ fun…” The twitter feed,...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Epiphany (Continues)

[More king cakes than you can imagine and only two weeks into Epiphany, I am...

December 2013

December 24, 2013

Joy to the World!

As the Community Minister for the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists, I spend a lot...

December 13, 2013

His Day Is Done

Since hearing the news last Thursday of the passing of Nelson Mandela, our beloved Madiba,...

December 12, 2013

Another Reason for the Season

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral...

December 10, 2013

The Goal of World Community with Peace, Liberty, and Justice for All

December 10, 2013 “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable...

December 05, 2013

Nelson Mandela

The great Nelson Mandela has died. Peacefully, after a long illness, surrounded by the love...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Where Were You When…?

There are times in history that imprint themselves on our psyche, events that seem to...

November 19, 2013

Living History: How JFK’s assassination woke me up

I was sitting in a small desk, and Mrs. Graham was at the front of...

November 19, 2013

Songs that Save Us

Emma’s Revolution came to New Orleans and offered a workshop focused on singing and songwriting...

November 14, 2013

How Sisyphus Got It Right

I have participated in National Novel Writing Month three times now. I have never reached...

November 12, 2013

Anything I can do, We can do better…

“We think that honesty and living in truth are better ways to live than propaganda...

November 06, 2013

Raking Leaves

People regularly say to me that they wouldn’t want to live in California, because they...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Reflections on death from the garden

This time of year, as we approach Halloween, The Day of the Dead, and All...

October 05, 2013

Together

Beloveds, I believe that we are all in this together – and together, we can...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

WTF?

Really, WTF? Has people shooting at strangers become a sort of national pastime? Are we...

September 11, 2013

A Better Choice

It was a few days after the 9/11 tragedy. We had done our best to...

September 10, 2013

Reflections on Global Suicide Prevention Day

Suicide Prevention Day. Note: If you feel even vaguely suicidal right now, please don’t read...

September 08, 2013

Season of Forgiveness

Reflecting on his experience as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, the International Military Tribunal...