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July 2017

July 20, 2017

The Danger is in Not Being You

There is a story that has been told in various ways about a rabbi named ...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Loving What Happens

Amor fati. The love of (your own) fate. The Stoic philosopher Epictetus appears to have...

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...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Public Service Reminder

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” - Annie...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Five

Last week I continued a discussion of the Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly called...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Three

Last week I continued a discussion of the seven Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly...

July 2016

July 12, 2016

A Review of Grace Without God: the Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age by Katherine Ozment.

By Rev. Dr. David Breeden A question from one of her children sends Ozment on...

July 08, 2016

A Mathematics of Loss

Mathematics There is no algebra for death. No life lost cancels out another. The idea...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

June 16, 2016

Swing Vote in the Bitter Election: Reflections on Orlando

The recent massacre in the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida is unfortunately an example...

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...

April 05, 2016

Letter to the Editor

Louisiana is the most incarcerated place in the world. Let's truly sit with that for...

March 2016

March 15, 2016

The Grace of Learning

In life, there are many things we can learn from other people. And there are...

March 03, 2016

#Humanism: Who We Are; What We Do; Why It Matters

I. Who We Are Religions and philosophies serve as heuristic devices for life, providing shape...

February 2016

February 16, 2016

The heartwork of coming alive

“Under all the harsh noise of the world coming in on us, this is how...

February 04, 2016

Love Thy Neighbor As . . .

There’s an old Buddhist story that goes like this: Once a mother found her baby...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Fear Not

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

October 2015

October 22, 2015

Why Does a Super-Nice Word Like “Spiritual” Make Humanists All Itchy?

Here is what Plato had to say about the body and the soul: Does not...

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 15, 2015

In this time of intense polarization

I cannot help but to wonder:

September 10, 2015

Five Reasons to Congregate in a Congregation

Why bother joining a congregation rather than, oh, say, a bowling league? 1. To meet...

September 01, 2015

And Still We Rise

The poet Mark Nepo writes that when “we find ourselves in an emergency at night,...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

The Duality Fallacy

The Methodist Church across the street from my church has a large lighted sign that...

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 30, 2015

Black Churches Burning White Supremacy Burning

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives...

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...