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July 2015

July 14, 2015

It’s a Both/And kind of world

There is a lot of either/or thinking in the common narrative today...and I think the world is...

July 02, 2015

Black Churches, Black Lives, the Legacy of Whiteness

Nation Building The United States government has failed at nation-building and democracy-creating more often than...

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 20, 2015

Racism 101 for White People

This past week's terrorist act at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina, has shaken...

June 18, 2015

Crying Together

Maybe we could just sit down and cry together first. In the presence of Black...

June 16, 2015

Choose Love

After years filled with state sanctioned violence and murder against people of color, the #BlackLivesMatter...

June 09, 2015

Anti-racism is essential for social change movements

From criminal justice majors at a university in Iowa, to Unitarian Universalist youth groups from...

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...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Humanism and a Theology of Liberation (Without Strangling Priests)

Humanism does not require the death of God. All it requires is the affirmation of...

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....

March 05, 2015

Selma Plus Fifty: Time For an Eight-Lane Bridge

WHERE ONLY BLACK MEN JAYWALK We are rightly celebrating the bravery of people—both the famous...

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...

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 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...