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May 2017

May 04, 2017

The National Day of . . . Counter-Narratives #NationalDayofReason

Dominant narratives. They dominate. They tell a story that most people in a group want...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

#Resolutions and Diseases of the Soul

It’s that time of year again—time for resolutions. List makers will list them; the sloppy...

December 22, 2016

Happy Holidays From the Cruel Optimisms

Isn’t it just a tad too ironic that one of the US national icons is...

December 15, 2016

Getting in the Christmas Spirit

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

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...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

Holy Work in this Holy Week

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

December 2015

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 01, 2015

Giving TUUesday

While many people in this country go to work and get paid, social change workers...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Grace for the Rest of Us

Grace. Some say it before meals. Some have it for a name. Grace-ful people have...

November 24, 2015

Fear Not

“The one most frequently repeated command in the Bible is not “love your neighbor,” but...

November 23, 2015

Helping Black Lives Matter at the White Thanksgiving Table

Apparently, some people are hoping for Adele to come to their Thanksgiving dinner and soothe...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

It’s been interesting watch the dialog about ethnic Halloween costumes go by on my Facebook...

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...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

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

January 2015

January 20, 2015

Guest Blogger: Rev. Paul Beedle: Reflections: Selma

Today we welcome the Reverend Paul Beedle, parish minister for First Unitarian Universalist Church of...

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 09, 2014

A Prayer for Wonder Restored

What does is mean to be a people of wonder? This was the evening’s invitational...

December 09, 2014

Peace, Justice and the Wisdom to Know the Difference

It is advent, friends. At this time of year people often talk about the Kingdom...

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 20, 2014

Subjectivity, Existence, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

All of us are born into a world we do not understand. All human beings...

November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day

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

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Circle Round for Freedom

The opposite of liberal religion is not conservative religion. It is fundamentalism – the deep...

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...

April 2014

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 17, 2014

Pagans, Cheasters, and Nones: Easter and Open-Source Religion

This coming Easter morning, many people will rise and look east. Some will go to...

April 15, 2014

Earth: Our Deep Home Place

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

February 2014

February 25, 2014

It’s Carnival Time!

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