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July 2014

July 08, 2014

Keep the Faith

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

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Roadmaps for the Soul (or: Hunting, Gathering, Singing)

In “Tombstone Blues,” a song released in 1965, Bob Dylan sang, “The National Bank at...

June 19, 2014

Making Sense of Life (or: Three Decorating Ideas for the Mind)

Wallace Stevens once said, “How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts...

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

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...

May 29, 2014

Spiritual But Not . . . Keep Talking

Literary critic Terry Eagleton said, “The din of conversation is as much meaning as we...

May 22, 2014

Tinfoil Hats and the Examined Life

Let’s say I tell you I’m wearing a tinfoil hat today . . . What...

May 08, 2014

Salvation Hits the Couch

Buddhism had been known in the United States since the mid-Nineteenth Century, but really came...

May 02, 2014

Too Much Noise

The house is still and quiet. The only sounds are the low gurgle of the...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Rest Easy

The high April winds blowing damage across the US this week also blew something into...

April 24, 2014

However They Have Writ the Style of Gods: Wounds and Healing

Here is the beautiful truth—saints and sinners are the same from the start. Hsu Yun,...

April 22, 2014

Earth Day Notes from New Orleans

Last week the Center hosted two groups of youth, one primarily people of color, one...

April 18, 2014

Simple Prayer, Profound Meditation

please… please.. please...please. I whispered the words softly, quietly. As I stood in the bridal...

April 17, 2014

Pagans, Cheasters, and Nones: Easter and Open-Source Religion

This coming Easter morning, many people will rise and look east. Some will go to...

April 15, 2014

Earth: Our Deep Home Place

The Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalist cluster gathered in an oak -filled park on Sunday...

April 14, 2014

Decision Season

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both...

April 09, 2014

Pulling Weeds

I don’t know about where you are, but here in California we have hit the...

April 03, 2014

A Semi-Private Idaho and Life in the Goldilocks Zone

Living in your own private Idaho underground like a wild potato The B52s You’ve...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Seriously—Who Said We Can Choose Our Own Mysteries?

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~Oscar Wilde There...

March 07, 2014

When Plans Go Awry

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground." -- Rumi If you...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Of Time and the Nebulous

Someday, they say, stars will stop gelling—the hydrogen and helium gone. Someday, each...

February 24, 2014

Thank You For…

I had a great time visiting New York City this past weekend. A couple years ago,...

February 18, 2014

Remember? #NeverLovedUs

“By not finding Dunn guilty of murder, the jury could not unanimously conclude that one...

February 13, 2014

Spiritual Practice for Skeptics

I tend to get it from both sides when I talk about spiritual practice: many...

February 07, 2014

Brave Love

I have fallen a bit behind. I had high hopes this year of completing the...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Take Good Care

I was taught in seminary to do ministry with sacred texts in one hand and...

January 26, 2014

Worthy to be Entrusted

(Today, I preached at the ordination of a new minister in my denomination, Unitarian Universalism....

January 21, 2014

Epiphany (Continues)

[More king cakes than you can imagine and only two weeks into Epiphany, I am...

January 20, 2014

How Is It with Your Day?

I recently asked a friend, via e-mail, what her daily routine was like. It was...