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April 2017

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 09, 2017

Bad Theology=Bad Politics

I hear an undercurrent of assumption in much of the current liberal rhetoric—a mythology that...

February 2017

February 01, 2017

Circles of Concern: How to Talk Politics

The bad news is…well, there’s a hell of a lot of it. But the good...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Risking together

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

November 2016

November 17, 2016

Now What?

Help me think this through, people. On the one hand, there are folks—good, honorable folks—who...

July 2016

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,...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

June 16, 2016

Orlando: God herself Is Inconsolable

When I was coming out as a young lesbian, back in the late 70s and...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

A spiritual responsibility for a moral tomorrow

In case the not so subtle nuances and coded language around race and class that are...

January 2016

January 05, 2016

The Lure of Our Worst Natures

I think you could argue that if we characterized candidates for the presidency in Freudian...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Fear Not

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

November 10, 2015

People Who Have Come ALIVE!

What makes you come alive my friend? This week I grateful to bear witness to...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

Things that get in the way

I often tell the story of the time my Chaplain Supervisor told me, “Deanna, I...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

Mansplaining, Whitesplaning, and the Power of Listening

Totally unprepared are you To face a world of men Timid and shy and scared...

September 15, 2015

In this time of intense polarization

I cannot help but to wonder:

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...

August 18, 2015

In times of grief and struggle, remember, friends

July 2015

July 28, 2015

BLACK LIVES MATTER

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 2015 General Assembly recognizes that the fight for civil...

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 12, 2015

Anne Lamott and the Pee-Pee Tweet

OK, honey, you know we love you, right? We love your novels and your essays...

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...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

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

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Humanism and a Theology of Liberation (Without Strangling Priests)

Humanism does not require the death of God. All it requires is the affirmation of...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Is Sex Necessary?

My colleagues in Unitarian Universalist ministry are blogging this month under the hashtag #SexUUality. Sex...

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...

November 2014

November 04, 2014

Election Day, November 4, 2014

Today is the day, friends. The day to VOTE. This is the day when we...

October 2014

October 16, 2014

Where Is the I in Me? Emotions, Self and Soul

A child falls down and begins screaming. It’s common. You did it as a child....

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

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

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Circle Round for Freedom

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

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. ...