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May 2015

May 07, 2015

Hate and Homo Sapiens

STAR LOG Had space aliens stopped by planet Earth a hundred thousand years ago, as...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

#Baltimore and the Failure of Human Flourishing

HONESTY DOESN’T RULE Huffington Post called the president’s remarks on the Baltimore uprising “the most...

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

The Unitarian Universalist (UU) faith has taken the stand that “Advancing the human rights of...

April 16, 2015

What’s in the Way is the Way: Stoicism and the Spaces Between

I sit at the roadside; The driver changes the wheel. I don’t like where I’m...

April 09, 2015

Reason is Dead; Long Live . . . Advanced Hindsight

JUSTICE IS A SNACK AWAY Justice. It may be a meal best served cold, but...

April 02, 2015

#RFRA, Soapy Cilantro, and Tasty Gods

(Or: A Little Demonstration of What Religious Freedom Looks Like) POLARIZATION Cilantro. It’s a polarizing...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

a love poem for a holy week

Happiness is this moment alive in the sunshine knowing I am Loved.

March 19, 2015

The Transient, the Permanent, and the Stitching Horse: What Remains True in Religions

When I was a kid, I loved wandering in the barn on my grandfather’s farm....

March 10, 2015

Closing the Faith Gap – Restoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965

“We all have two religions: the religion we talk about and the religion we live....

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Apocalypse: What Death Cults Really Want

The recent Atlantic article by Graeme Wood, “What Isis Really Wants,” examines the Isis phenomenon...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

The Bigness of our Littleness: Humanism and Individualism

Late in his life the philosopher Richard Rorty—well known to be an atheist—was asked...

January 22, 2015

Selma: Death of a Meta-narrative

OK, I admit it—I love it when postmodernism calls it right. And the screeches and...

January 20, 2015

Guest Blogger: Rev. Paul Beedle: Reflections: Selma

Today we welcome the Reverend Paul Beedle, parish minister for First Unitarian Universalist Church of...

January 13, 2015

As the movement builds, let us remember

I learned in school that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream....

January 08, 2015

Covenant: Broken Promises, Dumb Ideas, and Ways Forward

Captain, We're Out of Beer! When those adventurers we now call the Pilgrims realized they...

January 01, 2015

Religion: It’s What You Do

Seriously, No Joke Have you ever noticed how pointless it is to ask someone, “What’s...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Heartbroken in America

This week my guest blogger is Jim Foti, the assistant minister at the congregation I...

December 16, 2014

Don’t Let the Light Go Out

The Feast of Hanukkah, commemorating the rededication of the Temple in particular and the resistance...

December 11, 2014

White Privilege: Kumbaya Won’t Cut It

How Sad A sad fact: Many things that are good for society or the earth itself...

December 09, 2014

A Prayer for Wonder Restored

What does is mean to be a people of wonder? This was the evening’s invitational...

December 09, 2014

Peace, Justice and the Wisdom to Know the Difference

It is advent, friends. At this time of year people often talk about the Kingdom...

December 04, 2014

Could That “Riot” Be an Uprising?

Let’s face it, the last several days have been hard on White Power. Despite a...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

On this #Ferguson #Thanksgiving, America:—What’s Your Mission Statement?

The British novelist Charles Dickens toured the US in the early 1840s. Dickens was considerably...

November 26, 2014

Seeing is Believing

In the wake of Ferguson, in the wake of Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant and...

November 25, 2014

“the war against dehumanization is ceaseless”

"They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is...

November 20, 2014

Subjectivity, Existence, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

All of us are born into a world we do not understand. All human beings...

November 18, 2014

Eight Virtues for Generous Living

Patheos generously sent me a copy of The Grace of Yes: Eight Virtues for Generous...

November 13, 2014

Blinding and Beheading: One Path, Many Mountains

"I have been Don Quixote, always creating a world of my own." ~Anais Nin...

November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day

In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1915) In Flanders fields the poppies blow...

November 06, 2014

Justice, Elections, and Whiteness

Brits By the Boatload When that boatload of Brits showed up in Massachusetts, they quite...