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July 2017

July 20, 2017

The Danger is in Not Being You

There is a story that has been told in various ways about a rabbi named ...

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 13, 2017

Getting It Right Like the BCE

There was an important question that the older Greek and Roman philosophies asked that stopped...

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 30, 2017

Assumptions are Imaginary But They’re not Social

In Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin wrote, Society is held together by our...

March 23, 2017

An Antidote to Racial Theatre

Review of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S....

March 16, 2017

Dreaming White

An acquaintance (who is white) once related one of the nightmares of his life. He...

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...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

The True Origin Story

February 12th is the 208th birthday of Charles Darwin. In celebration, I want to look...

December 2016

December 15, 2016

Getting in the Christmas Spirit

I suspect that I am far from the only one having a hard time getting...

December 15, 2016

Communities of Resilience and Resistance

As a young theology student, James Luther Adams watched the Nazi rise to power. For...

December 06, 2016

Risking together

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

November 2016

November 24, 2016

At #Thanksgiving, A Wish for Freedoms

I lost one of my cousins this week. (As a hillbilly, I have lots of...

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 20, 2016

Outsourced Morality

True confession: I understand Trump voters. I come from that place. We’re the same people...

October 18, 2016

Public Service Reminder

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

September 2016

September 29, 2016

The War of Positions and Communities of Resistance

Antonio Gramsci was an early twentieth-century neo-Marxist who died in the 1930s as a result...

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...

August 11, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism Part 2.

Last week I began discussing the seven Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly called spiritual...

August 04, 2016

Stoic Mindfulness

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

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Cosmopolitanism in a Time of Petty Nationalism

To be Humanist is to say, with the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, “My city is...

July 21, 2016

When Hope Seems Silly

The life that no longer trusts another human being and no longer forms ties to...

July 14, 2016

Aesop and the Story After Dallas

One of Aesop’s Fables goes like this: Lion once went once hunting with Fox, Jackal,...

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....

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…