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July 2017

July 06, 2017

Until the Cows Come Home

(being a personal summary of the Zen story of the Ten Bulls*) As the youngest,...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

Murder and What’s in a Story

Why do we kill each other? I have to admit that when I walk along...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Ashes to Ashes, Humus to Humus, and Humility

Humility. Everyone knows it’s a virtue, since its opposite is . . . what? hubris?...

April 04, 2017

In the Name of Love

There has been a lot to process in the Unitarian Universalist world over the past...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Shine on! Faithful living in a breakable world

I spend a lot my time and life energy organizing with the New Orleans community...

March 09, 2017

Bad Theology=Bad Politics

I hear an undercurrent of assumption in much of the current liberal rhetoric—a mythology that...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

A Toolkit for Resisting Totalitarianism

For my money the philosopher Hannah Arendt offers the most profound analysis of the causes...

February 09, 2017

The True Origin Story

February 12th is the 208th birthday of Charles Darwin. In celebration, I want to look...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Alternative Facts and Reason in Religion

There are no alternative facts. There are alternative theories when we don't know the...

January 19, 2017

“Great Men” and the Tide of History

“Hindsight is 20/20” goes the cliche. And in my experience a lot of people want...

December 2016

December 15, 2016

Communities of Resilience and Resistance

As a young theology student, James Luther Adams watched the Nazi rise to power. For...

December 06, 2016

Risking together

It has been over two decades now, but I still remember being assigned A Feminist...

October 2016

October 20, 2016

Outsourced Morality

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

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...

September 22, 2016

Hand Me A Pickaxe, Please! I Need Hope!

I’ve been thinking lately about despair and hope, especially for people like me who live...

September 08, 2016

Sharing in the Anthropocene

My ethics in terms of economics comes from the first of the Humanist Manifestos: “Humanists...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

Stoic Mindfulness

As the number of the post-religious skyrockets in the United States, the “mindfulness” train is...

July 2016

July 21, 2016

When Hope Seems Silly

The life that no longer trusts another human being and no longer forms ties to...

July 19, 2016

Law and Order: Donald Trump’s Fantasy

Donald Trump has promised us that he will be the candidate standing on the side...

July 12, 2016

Black Lives Matter more than White Fear

Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. In Louisiana In Minnesota In Texas Black Lives Matter....

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 30, 2016

Beyond the Congeries of Banks: Finding a Moral Center

After the September 1938 Munich Pact with which the European democracies ceded territory to Nazi...

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

June 23, 2016

A Plea for a Philosophical Plank in Party Platforms

“The good life.” Lordy, lordy . . . I’m not hearing about it on CNN....

May 2016

May 18, 2016

Explicitly Black UU Healing Spaces: Spiritual Compassion Practice at GA 2016

[A note of gratitude and a heart full of appreciation to the Rev. Carlton Elliot...

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 22, 2016

Holy Work in this Holy Week

As the Christian world grieves and celebrates the Passion of Christ during this Holy Week,...

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...