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September 2015

September 24, 2015

Musing On Relevance

I meet monthly with clergy colleagues, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian of various stripes, all of...

September 10, 2015

Five Reasons to Congregate in a Congregation

Why bother joining a congregation rather than, oh, say, a bowling league? 1. To meet...

September 03, 2015

Integrity and the Big Hole in Wholeness

You’ve heard it; you’ve thought it; perhaps you’ve even said it: “She is SO together!”...

September 01, 2015

And Still We Rise

The poet Mark Nepo writes that when “we find ourselves in an emergency at night,...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

The Duality Fallacy

The Methodist Church across the street from my church has a large lighted sign that...

August 20, 2015

How Secular is “Religious”?

We don’t know how the ready access to information will ultimately change the human condition,...

August 18, 2015

In times of grief and struggle, remember, friends

August 13, 2015

Some Basics About #Humanism

Definition: Humanism is an evidence-based value system dedicated to freedom of thought and the promotion...

August 06, 2015

On the Right to Take Up Space

(homily for a prayer vigil for those murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston,...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

BLACK LIVES MATTER

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 2015 General Assembly recognizes that the fight for civil...

July 23, 2015

Informed Eclecticism: Why Unitarian Universalism Needs Wing Nuts

The Very Hungry Syncretism Orthodox Unitarian Universalism is syncretic, in theologian-lingo. In philosophy and the...

July 16, 2015

Guest Blogger Maria Greene asks, Why is Humanism So Scary for the UUA?

In the late 1960s—like so many other liberal movements—Humanism lost its way. Understandably, many Universalist...

July 09, 2015

Unitarian Humanism, That Peculiar Animal

Integrity. The word comes from the Latin, integer, “intact.” Related words include integer, a “whole...

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...

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 11, 2015

The Myth of Science Versus Religion

Getting the Metaphor Right It was the German writer Heinrich Heine who imagined a battle...

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...

June 04, 2015

The Olympics of a Reflective Life

The Nose On Your Face I often find it best to start out by stating...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Religion American Style (and the Church of Crazy)

Off the Boat and Out of the Box Let’s face it, the United States has...

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...

May 14, 2015

The Wrath of Pew and the Road to Character

Schadenfreude No More Another Pew poll showing another major decline in church attendance appeared this...

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 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 26, 2015

Religious Arguments: Where Are the Grownups?

RABBITS In November of 1726 news reached London that a physician had assisted a woman...