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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 27, 2016

How Can You Say You Love Me?

The Rabbi Jeffrey Summit [of Tufts Hillel] tells a Hasidic story of the rabbi who...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

June 02, 2016

Advice to a Graduate

My daughter is about to graduate from high school in a few days, which leaves...

May 2016

May 08, 2016

Mother’s Day

Here’s what I want to say for Mother’s Day. Motherhood isn’t just one thing. 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

In times of grief and struggle, remember, friends

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Punishment

Sandra Bland died in police custody, and now there is video available for all to...

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...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

Greenery Without People: The Future of Post-Religious Community

I don’t get it about the natural world. Like, greenery, without people in it, is...

November 2014

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...

November 03, 2014

Be Still

My daughter is learning to nap. Again. Not on a shoulder or on a lap....

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Please

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

October 13, 2014

Who Do You Listen To?

Who do you let in? These days we have lots of options for who and...

October 02, 2014

Beliefs, A-Liefs, and Seeing the Way Things Are

Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined....

October 01, 2014

Good Enough: 10 Tips for Sucking Less

Recently Christine Organ (a blogger for this UU Collective) published a lovely post on “good...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

A Summer Memory

for Maggie and Lewis As the dimming fall welcomes me back, a summer memory...

September 08, 2014

Blessings from Heaven

This past weekend I had the chance to do one of my favorite things. Presiding...

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 29, 2014

Rest Easy

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

April 08, 2014

How You Makin’ It?

Food for thought on a very busy week: Living Wage Calculation for New Orleans city,...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Do Justice

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