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May 2015

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...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

My Tribe by Alberto Blanco: A Way to Belong

In celebration of National Poetry Month, a translation from the great Mexican poet Alberto Blanco....

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

The Unitarian Universalist (UU) faith has taken the stand that “Advancing the human rights of...

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...

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...

March 19, 2015

The Transient, the Permanent, and the Stitching Horse: What Remains True in Religions

When I was a kid, I loved wandering in the barn on my grandfather’s farm....

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Religious Humanism: What Was Old is New Again

Church Attendance Free Fall The Barna Group, a research group that keeps up with trends...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

The ‘Ol Heave Ho Ho

You’ve seen them spilling off the paved trail into the woods; you’ve seen them in...

December 16, 2014

Don’t Let the Light Go Out

The Feast of Hanukkah, commemorating the rededication of the Temple in particular and the resistance...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

Eight Virtues for Generous Living

Patheos generously sent me a copy of The Grace of Yes: Eight Virtues for Generous...

November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day

In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1915) In Flanders fields the poppies blow...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Please

Tonight we stood together around candles that marked the spot where his body was found...

October 16, 2014

Where Is the I in Me? Emotions, Self and Soul

A child falls down and begins screaming. It’s common. You did it as a child....

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

“May beauty and passion and compassion be our companions. May we be fully alive. Amen.”...

October 06, 2014

Surf

Whoever it was that said grief comes in waves knows what it is to stand...

October 02, 2014

Beliefs, A-Liefs, and Seeing the Way Things Are

Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined....

October 01, 2014

Good Enough: 10 Tips for Sucking Less

Recently Christine Organ (a blogger for this UU Collective) published a lovely post on “good...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

A Summer Memory

for Maggie and Lewis As the dimming fall welcomes me back, a summer memory...

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 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 28, 2014

The Spiritual Practice of Agnosticism

Wolf! The Aesop fable about the boy who cried wolf has long been viewed as...

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...

August 07, 2014

Spiritual but not Superstitious (Mystical Without the Mumbling)

“Spirituality” is emotion. Sometimes the spiritual emotion springs from a consciously adopted attitude toward the...

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 17, 2014

Martian Sleeper Cells and A-Model Tism

Since I’m both a minister and a humanist, I’m asked—often in rather shocked terms—if I...

July 10, 2014

Eleanor Rigby’s Selfie

We learned from the Beatles that Eleanor Rigby “keeps her face in a jar by...