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October 2014

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

“May beauty and passion and compassion be our companions. May we be fully alive. Amen.”...

October 09, 2014

Razor Blades and Ebola: Processing Fear

Recently we have had a front row seat to observe low-level panic and smoldering fear....

September 2014

September 25, 2014

The Open and Shut (?) Case on Religious Thinking and Cognitive Closure

It isn’t news that there’s an inverse relation between religious piety and innovative thought. Religion...

September 18, 2014

A Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin: So What’s Our Excuse? (A Humanist “Theology” of Radical Welcome)

Mystical and Scientific The author of the Gospel of Matthew reports Jesus saying, “If you...

September 11, 2014

Security

I remember, in the days that followed the 9/11 attack, hearing the endless trope from...

September 09, 2014

The Courage for Compassion

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

September 04, 2014

Moses, Jesus, Paul and Sacred Soundbites

What ‘Ol Abe Saw Moses, Jesus, Paul, et. al. as motivator. Their words as marching...

September 02, 2014

When in doubt, choose the side of Compassion

The Thursday following the fundamentalist disruption of worship service at First Unitarian Universalist Church of...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

Ferguson: Cynicism and a Smartphone

I have to admit that the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri have triggered mostly cynicism...

August 14, 2014

The Rise of the Totally Awesome ‘Whatever’ God

“Moralistic therapeutic deism.” That’s the term sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton coined to...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Circle Round for Freedom

The opposite of liberal religion is not conservative religion. It is fundamentalism – the deep...

July 03, 2014

Way to Go, Supreme Court: Another #facepalm

A Primo #Facepalm Moment To be a citizen of the United States is to experience...

June 2014

June 05, 2014

#Development—It’s Nothing Personal

Pragmatic philosopher John Dewey once said, “Growth itself is the only moral end.” To philosophers...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Spiritual But Not . . . Keep Talking

Literary critic Terry Eagleton said, “The din of conversation is as much meaning as we...

May 15, 2014

Bomb Throwers, Navel Gazers, and Goin’ All Thoreau: Doing Justice

Let’s consider an extreme example, a stark instance of the decision between doing something and...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

The Joy of Taxes

There it is. It’s done. Whether you’re getting a refund or had to write a...

April 08, 2014

How You Makin’ It?

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

April 01, 2014

Women with a Vision – and a Voice!

Lately I’ve been struggling with the language of the non-profit world: “giving people a...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Do Justice

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

March 11, 2014

WATER SOLIDARITY

Environmental Justice struggles with a news cycle that may report a disaster, may revisit on...

March 06, 2014

Nature, Nurture, Murder: The Lessons of the Eugenics Craze

In the world of super heroes, it’s called an “origin story,” that trauma that led...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

It’s Carnival Time!

Al “Carnival Time” Johnson sings “it’s Carnival Time and everybody’s havin’ fun…” The twitter feed,...

February 20, 2014

How Unitarian Universalists Do Church

I suppose everybody has a favorite founding document for a religion or a nation. Mine...

February 18, 2014

Remember? #NeverLovedUs

“By not finding Dunn guilty of murder, the jury could not unanimously conclude that one...

February 06, 2014

Apocalypse Never (and what we can do about it)

I grew up in the Pentecostal church. When I was ten, I knew just how...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Beginning must not be the end….

As we conclude this month focused on beginnings, I am struck by the renewed interest...

January 30, 2014

A Scream and a Theory: Natural Selection and the Higher Moral Order

Scientific theories do not occur in a vacuum. Like poems or paintings, theories reflect the...

January 23, 2014

Flying Over the Squares (for small farmers)

The little towns in their squares light up, as do the scattered lights of farmyards...

January 21, 2014

Epiphany (Continues)

[More king cakes than you can imagine and only two weeks into Epiphany, I am...

January 16, 2014

A Gift, A Letter, and a Drowning Man: The Legacy of “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

There’s an old Zen story that does like this: Once there was a great...