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May 2014

May 16, 2014

What to Wear

OK, time for the teensiest bit of a rant, here. It starts with the fact...

April 2014

April 01, 2014

Women with a Vision – and a Voice!

Lately I’ve been struggling with the language of the non-profit world: “giving people a...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Do Justice

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

March 06, 2014

Nature, Nurture, Murder: The Lessons of the Eugenics Craze

In the world of super heroes, it’s called an “origin story,” that trauma that led...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

All the Rage

Apparently it is all the rage these days for state legislatures to introduce “religious freedom”...

February 12, 2014

Valentine’s Day

I could be wrong, but I rather suspect that Valentine’s Day is the most widely...

February 10, 2014

The Harvest Comes

On a blazingly sunny January morning, I marched into a sanctuary outside of Denver, Colorado...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Epiphany (Continues)

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

December 2013

December 24, 2013

Joy to the World!

As the Community Minister for the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists, I spend a lot...

December 03, 2013

Deep South

Planned Parenthood of Louisiana hosted a screening of deepsouth last night in honor of World...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Songs that Save Us

Emma’s Revolution came to New Orleans and offered a workshop focused on singing and songwriting...

October 2013

October 12, 2013

Who does your heart break for?

Last month I had the joy of participating in the first Life on Fire un-conference...

October 05, 2013

Together

Beloveds, I believe that we are all in this together – and together, we can...

August 2013

August 17, 2013

Culture Shift

There is an old and often told story of a child walking along a beach,...

August 10, 2013

UU Verbs

I had the honor of spending this week with a dozen youth who chose to...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Keep the Faith!

In his story of a man with a sneering wife, Sufi master Rumi begins: A...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Storms and Solidarity

All day Thursday I wore my Standing on the Side of Love t-shirt, through meetings...

June 26, 2013

What it Means

Today the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and declared that the...

June 19, 2013

When Worlds Collide

I had an interesting conversation with a friend the other day about a controversy in...

April 2013

April 06, 2013

The People’s Work

In The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice, Rev. Richard Gilbert lays out...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Before the Court

As I write, the Supreme Court is just finishing up oral arguments on the Defense...

November 2012

November 02, 2012

Voting as Spiritual Practice, as a Neighborly Act…

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away. ~ Wendell Berry ~...

October 2012

October 10, 2012

The Connection of Church and State

I am a big fan of the separation of church and state. I do not...

October 05, 2012

That’s What Bearing Witness Is…

Let go of what you know and honor what exists Son, that's what bearing witness...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

Hating Hateful Haters

Last week, advertisements began appearing at commuter train stations in the county where I live...

August 25, 2012

All’s Fair

Here in Minnesota, where I live, the State Fair is the main thing going on....

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Spending Your Values

There’s been a lot of controversy lately about chicken sandwiches. Specifically the fact that the...

July 26, 2012

Holding to the Wrong Anchor

Yesterday I was listening to a radio interview with the Catholic bishop who had been...

June 2012

June 10, 2012

“I didn’t say it was fair, I said it was the law.”

I asked my ex, my partner of almost twenty years from whom I separated three...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Who Would Jesus Fence Off?

Last week a Baptist pastor by the name of Worley got a fair bit of...