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November 2016

November 24, 2016

At #Thanksgiving, A Wish for Freedoms

I lost one of my cousins this week. (As a hillbilly, I have lots of...

November 17, 2016

Now What?

Help me think this through, people. On the one hand, there are folks—good, honorable folks—who...

November 14, 2016

You Are Not Wrong

You are not wrong if you are grieving. You are not wrong if you are...

November 10, 2016

A Republic If You Can Keep It

I’ve long been a member of PEN America, a writers group dedicated to freedom of...

November 03, 2016

Social Gospel 2.0: Public Theology and #StandingWithStandingRock

#MoralMonday, #MoralRevival, and #StandingWithStandingRock have ushered in a new day for public theology. Religions can...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Mulligan Stew, Truth, and Worldviews

In the early twentieth century the activist Rosa Luxemburg wrote, “The most revolutionary act is...

October 20, 2016

Outsourced Morality

True confession: I understand Trump voters. I come from that place. We’re the same people...

October 18, 2016

Public Service Reminder

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” - Annie...

October 13, 2016

One Hundred Years of Humanism

Humanism is a product of Unitarian thought. The first Humanist congregation was a Unitarian one,...

October 06, 2016

Theology is Words, Words Matter

When people first visit First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, a very common first response to...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

The War of Positions and Communities of Resistance

Antonio Gramsci was an early twentieth-century neo-Marxist who died in the 1930s as a result...

September 27, 2016

How Can You Say You Love Me?

The Rabbi Jeffrey Summit [of Tufts Hillel] tells a Hasidic story of the rabbi who...

September 20, 2016

Trauma Stewardship?

Dear Friends, Happy Autumn! On day one of my summer break a dear friend recommended...

September 15, 2016

Humanism: Without God, Not Anti-God

The September 2016 Atlantic features an article about new Humanist communities titled “A Less Lonely...

September 08, 2016

Sharing in the Anthropocene

My ethics in terms of economics comes from the first of the Humanist Manifestos: “Humanists...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Law and Order: Donald Trump’s Fantasy

Donald Trump has promised us that he will be the candidate standing on the side...

July 14, 2016

Aesop and the Story After Dallas

One of Aesop’s Fables goes like this: Lion once went once hunting with Fox, Jackal,...

July 12, 2016

Black Lives Matter more than White Fear

Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. In Louisiana In Minnesota In Texas Black Lives Matter....

July 08, 2016

A Mathematics of Loss

Mathematics There is no algebra for death. No life lost cancels out another. The idea...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Beyond the Congeries of Banks: Finding a Moral Center

After the September 1938 Munich Pact with which the European democracies ceded territory to Nazi...

June 28, 2016

You should start a meme, they said…

June 23, 2016

A Plea for a Philosophical Plank in Party Platforms

“The good life.” Lordy, lordy . . . I’m not hearing about it on CNN....

June 16, 2016

Swing Vote in the Bitter Election: Reflections on Orlando

The recent massacre in the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida is unfortunately an example...

June 13, 2016

Profile of a Murderer

Don’t get me wrong. I am not generally a fan of profiling. I find it...

June 09, 2016

No Gods, No Masters, and the Humanist Way of Thinking

Humanism developed in late Medieval Christianity, but moved on. European humanism reached high points in...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

Explicitly Black UU Healing Spaces: Spiritual Compassion Practice at GA 2016

[A note of gratitude and a heart full of appreciation to the Rev. Carlton Elliot...

May 12, 2016

Getting a Mission On

If I’ve learned anything from serving and visiting several congregations, it is that survival is...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

A spiritual responsibility for a moral tomorrow

In case the not so subtle nuances and coded language around race and class that are...

April 05, 2016

Letter to the Editor

Louisiana is the most incarcerated place in the world. Let's truly sit with that for...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

Holy Work in this Holy Week

As the Christian world grieves and celebrates the Passion of Christ during this Holy Week,...