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July 2017

July 27, 2017

Steal Your Fire, Drink Your Tea

In the late nineteenth and into the twentieth-century a good many Unitarian congregations sponsored Prometheus Clubs....

July 20, 2017

The Danger is in Not Being You

There is a story that has been told in various ways about a rabbi named ...

July 06, 2017

Until the Cows Come Home

(being a personal summary of the Zen story of the Ten Bulls*) As the youngest,...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Loving What Happens

Amor fati. The love of (your own) fate. The Stoic philosopher Epictetus appears to have...

June 08, 2017

Murder and What’s in a Story

Why do we kill each other? I have to admit that when I walk along...

May 2017

May 18, 2017

I’m an Atheist! Now What?

As I mentioned in my last blog post, unlike progressive traditions such as the United...

May 11, 2017

Could It Get Better? The Problem of Progressivism

I am writing this morning at a McDonalds in a small farm town near my...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Ashes to Ashes, Humus to Humus, and Humility

Humility. Everyone knows it’s a virtue, since its opposite is . . . what? hubris?...

April 20, 2017

Savoring The Milquetoast: Why This Humanist Remains a Unitarian Universalist

Why would a Humanist want to be a Unitarian Universalist? As the president of the...

April 13, 2017

Getting It Right Like the BCE

There was an important question that the older Greek and Roman philosophies asked that stopped...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Shine on! Faithful living in a breakable world

I spend a lot my time and life energy organizing with the New Orleans community...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Alternative Facts and Reason in Religion

There are no alternative facts. There are alternative theories when we don't know the...

January 05, 2017

Ay Caramba! Decolonizing the Mind

The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

#Resolutions and Diseases of the Soul

It’s that time of year again—time for resolutions. List makers will list them; the sloppy...

December 22, 2016

Happy Holidays From the Cruel Optimisms

Isn’t it just a tad too ironic that one of the US national icons is...

December 06, 2016

Risking together

It has been over two decades now, but I still remember being assigned A Feminist...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

Kick the Dog, Pet the Dog—Off-Loading Anxiety

There’s two things we can do with suffering: we can kick the dog; or we...

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 25, 2016

how we spend our lives…

Back before we became adult adults, my younger sister and I would call each other...

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,...

September 2016

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 22, 2016

Hand Me A Pickaxe, Please! I Need Hope!

I’ve been thinking lately about despair and hope, especially for people like me who live...

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 01, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Five

Last week I continued a discussion of the Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly called...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Four

Last week I continued a discussion of the Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly called...

August 18, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism, Part Three

Last week I continued a discussion of the seven Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly...

August 11, 2016

The Mindfulness of Stoicism Part 2.

Last week I began discussing the seven Stoic methods of inner-discipline (what’s popularly called spiritual...

August 04, 2016

Stoic Mindfulness

As the number of the post-religious skyrockets in the United States, the “mindfulness” train is...