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April 2013

April 20, 2013

SHINE

love is the voice under all silences; the hope which has no opposite in fear;...

April 18, 2013

Hunting Only for Kindness

I was scrubbing the dishes this evening, hot steam rising up from the sink, when...

April 12, 2013

Help: We All Need Somebody, Sometime

I have learned a thing or two about asking for help these past two weeks....

April 05, 2013

A is for…Afebrile.

I was braced for a strange and challenging week with my partner out-of-state for a...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Yes, Sweetie, Your Mama’s An Atheist…Minister. It Happens. Now, About This Sunday…

Last September, we moved to the "Little Rome" section of Northeast Washington, D.C. I expected...

March 23, 2013

Suprised by Joy: the Gift of Forgiveness

“Forgiveness can begin the moment we accept that the past cannot be changed.” These words,...

March 21, 2013

Ordinary Time

Though March is not the season of Ordinary Time according to the Roman Catholic calendar,...

March 15, 2013

What’s (Not) To Worry About?

Well, it's not the end of the world, by a long stretch. In fact, it's...

March 08, 2013

This Is What’s Happening

This is what's happening, now. It is the last day of our week-and-a-half West Coast...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Beyonce at Half-Time

OK, I will admit that, in spite of living in the San Francisco Bay Area,...

January 2013

January 20, 2013

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, I...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Love & Grief: Two Sides of the Same Coin

One night as the on-call hospital chaplain, I witnessed the end of three marriages, each...

December 24, 2012

For So the Children Come

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

December 15, 2012

The Day After Newtown: Finding Our Way

And so we wake up the morning after, and it wasn’t a dream. The children...

October 2012

October 21, 2012

Fireworks

Truth be told, I don’t feel like writing a blog this morning. I just feel...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Legitimacy

The furor over Rep. Todd Akin’s astonishingly irresponsible and oft-quoted remarks this week has once...

July 2012

July 10, 2012

It Could Have Been Otherwise

We spent the Fourth of July like many others do. We got together with family...

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...

June 06, 2012

Summer and Sabbath

My thirteen-year-old daughter and I have different ideas about what it is that she will...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

What Kind of a Parent is God?

Women’s studies classes in college introduced me to the idea of feminine images of...

May 16, 2012

Still Mulling Over Mitt Scissorhands

Apparently the story of Mitt Romney’s highschool “hijinks” has now moved on from the news...