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October 2016

October 20, 2016

Outsourced Morality

True confession: I understand Trump voters. I come from that place. We’re the same people...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

November 2015

November 19, 2015

#Terrorism: Religion and Nationalism Aren’t Fixing It

Nothing like a crisis to clarify values. If the terrorist attacks in Paris have clarified...

November 10, 2015

People Who Have Come ALIVE!

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

July 2015

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...

July 02, 2015

Black Churches, Black Lives, the Legacy of Whiteness

Nation Building The United States government has failed at nation-building and democracy-creating more often than...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Apocalypse: What Death Cults Really Want

The recent Atlantic article by Graeme Wood, “What Isis Really Wants,” examines the Isis phenomenon...

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 13, 2014

Just Yesterday I Got the Call

Just yesterday I got the call. “Reverend Maginn,” declares Chaplain Jason Dipinto who has faithfully...

November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day

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

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 30, 2014

Conscience and Choosing the Hill to Die On

As of this writing, Maine nurse Kaci Hickox is under house arrest for her resistance...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

The Courage for Compassion

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

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 24, 2013

To Becoming Silent

by Pablo Neruda (translation by David Breeden) Now, let's all count to twelve, then keep...

October 05, 2013

Together

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

September 2013

September 05, 2013

Bombing Again? But It’ll Work This Time!

There’s really no need to refer to specifics. When you’ve been a citizen of the...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Guns: Relationship Status: “It’s complicated.”

I first held a gun when I was eight years old. One of my uncles...

January 18, 2013

Like-Hearted People

"You need not think alike to love alike." This was the wisdom of Francis David, spiritual...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

For So the Children Come

For each child that’s born A morning star rises and sings to the universe who...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

A Personal Relationship with God

The aspect of my personal faith that seems to bring about the most confusion in...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

The Meaning of Memorial Day

I thought I understood the meaning of Memorial Day. I thought the military uniform hanging...

May 22, 2012

Paying Tribute

In her best-selling Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins imagines a world of the future—a dystopian...