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April 2013

April 20, 2013

SHINE

love is the voice under all silences; the hope which has no opposite in fear;...

April 06, 2013

The People’s Work

In The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice, Rev. Richard Gilbert lays out...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

There Is No Failure But Not To Try

We do not have to wait until we are perfect to practice our faith. While...

March 27, 2013

Before the Court

As I write, the Supreme Court is just finishing up oral arguments on the Defense...

March 23, 2013

Suprised by Joy: the Gift of Forgiveness

“Forgiveness can begin the moment we accept that the past cannot be changed.” These words,...

March 14, 2013

Why I am a Unitarian Universalist

At college I found a small group of humanists who called themselves Unitarian Universalists. They...

March 09, 2013

…born and re-born again

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

March 06, 2013

Good Guys and Bad Guys

Depending on who you talk to, the recent death of Hugo Chavez was either the...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Standing on Principle

As the budget sequestration looms, it seems that the government is caught in a stalemate...

February 15, 2013

When there is too much to do…

Some things go undone... See y'all next week!

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Pro-Life/Pro-Choice

Let’s start the conversation here. Everybody is pro-life. OK, everybody who is not Lord Voldemort...

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 20, 2013

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, I...

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...

January 10, 2013

What Do We Owe?

I was talking recently with a friend who is struggling with the question of how...

January 04, 2013

Joyful Epiphany

Sunday, January 6th, marks the celebration of Epiphany – a.k.a. Twelfth Night, Three Kings Day, la...

December 2012

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 19, 2012

What Makes Us Safe

It is only natural that in the wake of the horrific shootings at Sandy Hook...

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

“Guns Don’t Kill People”

OK, so what if we accepted that “guns don’t kill people, people do”? Just for...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

On Abundance

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

November 04, 2012

How to Vote as an Act of Prayer

We’d love to cast a vote for compassion, freedom, justice. But they’re not on the...

November 02, 2012

Voting as Spiritual Practice, as a Neighborly Act…

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away. ~ Wendell Berry ~...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

What Isn’t Said

You know what I find most fascinating about this week’s presidential debate? What they didn’t...

October 08, 2012

In 1492…

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue... So began the ditty that most...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

A Grandson’s Rage

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

August 2012

August 28, 2012

Hating Hateful Haters

Last week, advertisements began appearing at commuter train stations in the county where I live...

August 25, 2012

Legitimacy

The furor over Rep. Todd Akin’s astonishingly irresponsible and oft-quoted remarks this week has once...

August 11, 2012

In solidarity with our Sikh sisters and brothers

This past Sunday's horrific shooting at the Oak Creek Sikh Temple just outside Milwaukee is...