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June 2015

June 30, 2015

Black Churches Burning White Supremacy Burning

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives...

June 25, 2015

Welcome To The Age of Practice

It’s Been a While The first person to doubt. Did she or he doubt because...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

That’s Why They Call It Practice

Sit Down, Kid When I was in my early 20s, I decided to dedicate myself...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

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

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 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....

January 2015

January 06, 2015

Finding Home

This week I clicked the visitor tab of a congregation I do not know and found...

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 09, 2014

A Prayer for Wonder Restored

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

November 2014

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 11, 2014

Remembrance Day

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

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Please

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

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

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

September 2014

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 07, 2014

Spiritual but not Superstitious (Mystical Without the Mumbling)

“Spirituality” is emotion. Sometimes the spiritual emotion springs from a consciously adopted attitude toward the...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Reps of God: Christian Triumphalism and the DIY Future of Unitarian Universalism

LITE The future of Unitarian Universalism does not lie in Christianity Lite any more than...

July 29, 2014

The Journey is Essential

On the verge of two weeks of study leave, I offer this ancestor wisdom to the...

July 08, 2014

Keep the Faith

This morning I tended to my garden and that of an elder neighbor....

May 2014

May 08, 2014

Salvation Hits the Couch

Buddhism had been known in the United States since the mid-Nineteenth Century, but really came...

May 02, 2014

Too Much Noise

The house is still and quiet. The only sounds are the low gurgle of the...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Rest Easy

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

April 18, 2014

Simple Prayer, Profound Meditation

please… please.. please...please. I whispered the words softly, quietly. As I stood in the bridal...

April 15, 2014

Earth: Our Deep Home Place

The Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalist cluster gathered in an oak -filled park on Sunday...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

Remember? #NeverLovedUs

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

February 13, 2014

Spiritual Practice for Skeptics

I tend to get it from both sides when I talk about spiritual practice: many...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

What A Miracle Is

Once I crossed the Sierra Madres with a bus driver named Arturo who had...

December 2013

December 24, 2013

Joy to the World!

As the Community Minister for the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists, I spend a lot...

December 17, 2013

For the Beauty of the Earth…

I was walking in City Park with a community organizer this week when suddenly we...

December 10, 2013

The Goal of World Community with Peace, Liberty, and Justice for All

December 10, 2013 “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable...