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December 2014

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

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 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...

November 06, 2014

The Losing Team

Another election has come and gone. Some people, presumably, are delighted, while others are filled...

November 06, 2014

Justice, Elections, and Whiteness

Brits By the Boatload When that boatload of Brits showed up in Massachusetts, they quite...

November 04, 2014

Election Day, November 4, 2014

Today is the day, friends. The day to VOTE. This is the day when we...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Conscience and Choosing the Hill to Die On

As of this writing, Maine nurse Kaci Hickox is under house arrest for her resistance...

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 25, 2014

The Open and Shut (?) Case on Religious Thinking and Cognitive Closure

It isn’t news that there’s an inverse relation between religious piety and innovative thought. Religion...

September 22, 2014

Sunny Side Up with a Side of Racism?

Yesterday after church, my family and I stopped at a favorite cafe in Hartford. It's...

September 18, 2014

A Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin: So What’s Our Excuse? (A Humanist “Theology” of Radical Welcome)

Mystical and Scientific The author of the Gospel of Matthew reports Jesus saying, “If you...

September 11, 2014

It’s always 9/11 Now: Porous, Buffered, and the Search for Authentic

Authenticity or Bust From the First Great Awakening of the 1740s that energized the North...

September 09, 2014

The Courage for Compassion

Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.”...

September 04, 2014

Moses, Jesus, Paul and Sacred Soundbites

What ‘Ol Abe Saw Moses, Jesus, Paul, et. al. as motivator. Their words as marching...

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 21, 2014

Ferguson: Cynicism and a Smartphone

I have to admit that the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri have triggered mostly cynicism...

August 14, 2014

The Rise of the Totally Awesome ‘Whatever’ God

“Moralistic therapeutic deism.” That’s the term sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton coined to...

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 24, 2014

House on Fire: Church Attendance in the US

There it is, yet another study indicating that the number of American Christians who attend...

July 22, 2014

Circle Round for Freedom

The opposite of liberal religion is not conservative religion. It is fundamentalism – the deep...

July 08, 2014

Keep the Faith

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

July 03, 2014

Way to Go, Supreme Court: Another #facepalm

A Primo #Facepalm Moment To be a citizen of the United States is to experience...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

In Prayerful Solidarity with Dr. Ersula Ore

This morning I am sitting in prayer after watching a video of Dr. Ersula Ore,...

June 17, 2014

Love is the Boss of Me

Recently an organizer asked for a meeting and I went to pull out my phone...

June 10, 2014

Oops, Oh Well

Turns out there was another school shooting. Yeah, the one in Oregon, not the people...

June 10, 2014

Disappear or Die: Southern Black Trans-Experience

Today we bless Tela La’Raine Love as she prepares for her gender reassignment surgery. ...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

What He Deserves

I’m deliberately late to the discussion of Elliot Rodgers’s homicidal spree. If you haven’t read...