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July 2015

July 23, 2015

Informed Eclecticism: Why Unitarian Universalism Needs Wing Nuts

The Very Hungry Syncretism Orthodox Unitarian Universalism is syncretic, in theologian-lingo. In philosophy and the...

July 14, 2015

It’s a Both/And kind of world

There is a lot of either/or thinking in the common narrative today...and I think the world is...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Anti-racism is essential for social change movements

From criminal justice majors at a university in Iowa, to Unitarian Universalist youth groups from...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

Hate and Homo Sapiens

STAR LOG Had space aliens stopped by planet Earth a hundred thousand years ago, as...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

My Tribe by Alberto Blanco: A Way to Belong

In celebration of National Poetry Month, a translation from the great Mexican poet Alberto Blanco....

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

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

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Religious Arguments: Where Are the Grownups?

RABBITS In November of 1726 news reached London that a physician had assisted a woman...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

How Do We Interact on the Cyber-Commons?

I bet I’m not the only one whose Facebook page is lighting up right now...

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 08, 2015

Covenant: Broken Promises, Dumb Ideas, and Ways Forward

Captain, We're Out of Beer! When those adventurers we now call the Pilgrims realized they...

December 2014

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...

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 18, 2014

Eight Virtues for Generous Living

Patheos generously sent me a copy of The Grace of Yes: Eight Virtues for Generous...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

The Neighbors are Zombies Living in Maslow’s Basement!

Imagine the laid-back life of a zombie. First of all, you’re dead. So. No more...

October 21, 2014

Please

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

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

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

September 2014

September 18, 2014

A Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin: So What’s Our Excuse? (A Humanist “Theology” of Radical Welcome)

Mystical and Scientific The author of the Gospel of Matthew reports Jesus saying, “If you...

September 02, 2014

When in doubt, choose the side of Compassion

The Thursday following the fundamentalist disruption of worship service at First Unitarian Universalist Church of...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Martian Sleeper Cells and A-Model Tism

Since I’m both a minister and a humanist, I’m asked—often in rather shocked terms—if I...

July 08, 2014

Keep the Faith

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

June 2014

June 30, 2014

In Prayerful Solidarity with Dr. Ersula Ore

This morning I am sitting in prayer after watching a video of Dr. Ersula Ore,...

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 29, 2014

Spiritual But Not . . . Keep Talking

Literary critic Terry Eagleton said, “The din of conversation is as much meaning as we...

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 29, 2014

Rest Easy

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

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...

April 03, 2014

A Semi-Private Idaho and Life in the Goldilocks Zone

Living in your own private Idaho underground like a wild potato The B52s You’ve...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Do Justice

I am ever so grateful that I was assigned The Wolf Shall Dwell with the...

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,...