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March 2013

March 09, 2013

…born and re-born again

“Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to...

March 03, 2013

Being and Doing, Work and Spiritual Practice

Last week I attended an interesting conference called Wisdom 2.0, about the convergence of technology...

March 02, 2013

High Resolve

“Keep fresh before me the moments of my High Resolve, that in fair weather or...

February 2013

February 13, 2013

Kinds of Love

Happy Valentine’s Day. If, you know, that’s your thing. If you happen to be one...

February 08, 2013

Collective Joy!

It is Carnival time in New Orleans! From now until Ash Wednesday, there will be...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Guns: Relationship Status: “It’s complicated.”

I first held a gun when I was eight years old. One of my uncles...

January 18, 2013

Like-Hearted People

"You need not think alike to love alike." This was the wisdom of Francis David, spiritual...

January 11, 2013

We Are All In This Together

“If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

What a Day for a Daydream!

It turns out I’m not as good at daydreaming as I used to be. When...

December 28, 2012

Love & Grief: Two Sides of the Same Coin

One night as the on-call hospital chaplain, I witnessed the end of three marriages, each...

December 24, 2012

For So the Children Come

For each child that’s born A morning star rises and sings to the universe who...

December 15, 2012

The Day After Newtown: Finding Our Way

And so we wake up the morning after, and it wasn’t a dream. The children...

December 14, 2012

YOU GOT PEOPLE

You Got People This Public Service Announcement brought to you by a Unitarian Universalist minister...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

On Abundance

"We are the people of abundance, people who have known suffering and will know suffering....

October 2012

October 21, 2012

Fireworks

Truth be told, I don’t feel like writing a blog this morning. I just feel...

October 07, 2012

Thoughts on Death and Lasagna

Last night, as I lay dozing on the couch, I awakened with a start at...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

A Grandson’s Rage

Politicians throw about plans for health care, Social Security, and Medicare as if they were...

September 24, 2012

Judge Not…

Toward the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says to those gathered, "Judge...

September 11, 2012

All In This Together

Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches about something he calls interbeing. "If you are...

September 04, 2012

Run for Your Life!

I have always been fairly athletic, and I enjoy playing a good game that gets...

September 02, 2012

Friends: The Spice of Life

If most of our life consists of basic repetitive tasks that are simple and predictable—some...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

All’s Fair

Here in Minnesota, where I live, the State Fair is the main thing going on....

August 21, 2012

The Mean Season

Like many of you, I am already bemoaning the tone and tenor of the Presidential...

July 2012

July 07, 2012

Going to the Movies

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

The New Face of Courage

Courage comes in many forms and it wears many faces. We often think of those...

June 24, 2012

Fear and Love at Tent City

There is a protest at Tent City tonight, the place where Sherriff Joe...

June 19, 2012

Saying Goodbye

A few years ago, a member of my congregation with a background in science asked...

June 16, 2012

Improv to Improve

I recently participated in a church board of trustees’ retreat in which a congregant, Travis...

June 12, 2012

What Really Matters

I recently conducted a memorial service for a young woman who had taken her own...

June 10, 2012

“I didn’t say it was fair, I said it was the law.”

I asked my ex, my partner of almost twenty years from whom I separated three...