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November 2014

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...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Please

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

October 20, 2014

Twenty Inches

Twenty inches isn’t all that high. It’s less than two feet. My daughter was 20...

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

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

October 06, 2014

Surf

Whoever it was that said grief comes in waves knows what it is to stand...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

Security

I remember, in the days that followed the 9/11 attack, hearing the endless trope from...

September 11, 2014

It’s always 9/11 Now: Porous, Buffered, and the Search for Authentic

Authenticity or Bust From the First Great Awakening of the 1740s that energized the North...

September 09, 2014

The Courage for Compassion

Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.”...

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 26, 2014

Roadmaps for the Soul (or: Hunting, Gathering, Singing)

In “Tombstone Blues,” a song released in 1965, Bob Dylan sang, “The National Bank at...

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. ...

June 05, 2014

#Development—It’s Nothing Personal

Pragmatic philosopher John Dewey once said, “Growth itself is the only moral end.” To philosophers...

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 08, 2014

Salvation Hits the Couch

Buddhism had been known in the United States since the mid-Nineteenth Century, but really came...

May 06, 2014

Give me the heart

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

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Rest Easy

The high April winds blowing damage across the US this week also blew something into...

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...

April 10, 2014

Let’s Agree to Agree on Subjectivity

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an...

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,...

February 11, 2014

Bee Wise

This winter has devastated my sub-tropical garden in New Orleans. I was out of town...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Take Good Care

I was taught in seminary to do ministry with sacred texts in one hand and...

January 21, 2014

Epiphany (Continues)

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

January 16, 2014

A Gift, A Letter, and a Drowning Man: The Legacy of “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

There’s an old Zen story that does like this: Once there was a great...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Empty Suitcase

The cat snuggles down into my empty suitcase, out to fill for a trip. She...