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February 2016

February 02, 2016

Carnival Redux, epiphanies too!

While revelation is ever unfolding, sometimes it is worth looking back through the transience for...

January 2016

January 12, 2016

Co-Courage

I am thrilled to announce to the world that the Center for Ethical Living and...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Instructions for the New Year

Beloveds, as we prepare for the new year, I invite you to take a deep...

December 15, 2015

Holy Patience: Beyond hope and fear

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King wrote, “Our goal is to create a beloved community...

December 01, 2015

Giving TUUesday

While many people in this country go to work and get paid, social change workers...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Fear Not

“The one most frequently repeated command in the Bible is not “love your neighbor,” but...

November 23, 2015

Helping Black Lives Matter at the White Thanksgiving Table

Apparently, some people are hoping for Adele to come to their Thanksgiving dinner and soothe...

November 11, 2015

The “Trinsics”: Where are You Coming From?

Psychologist Gordon Allport argued that there are two types of religious experience—the extrinsic and the...

November 10, 2015

People Who Have Come ALIVE!

What makes you come alive my friend? This week I grateful to bear witness to...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

Things that get in the way

I often tell the story of the time my Chaplain Supervisor told me, “Deanna, I...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

When I breathe in…

A few weeks ago, I shared a sermon called Still We Rise with a congregation in the...

September 15, 2015

In this time of intense polarization

I cannot help but to wonder:

September 08, 2015

A little respite for our souls…

I need a little respite for my soul, soul, soul take a little time to...

September 01, 2015

And Still We Rise

The poet Mark Nepo writes that when “we find ourselves in an emergency at night,...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

You Can’t Drown a Fire Ant

You can't drown a fire ant. Not if it's got friends. What happens in a...

August 25, 2015

As we re-member, a love note to NOLA and to life

This is a love note to my people, to friends and family and strangers who...

August 18, 2015

In times of grief and struggle, remember, friends

August 12, 2015

The Deciduous Universe

This week's gathering of the International Astronomical Union featured research that says that our universe...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Punishment

Sandra Bland died in police custody, and now there is video available for all to...

July 28, 2015

BLACK LIVES MATTER

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 2015 General Assembly recognizes that the fight for civil...

July 16, 2015

Guest Blogger Maria Greene asks, Why is Humanism So Scary for the UUA?

In the late 1960s—like so many other liberal movements—Humanism lost its way. Understandably, many Universalist...

July 14, 2015

It’s a Both/And kind of world

There is a lot of either/or thinking in the common narrative today...and I think the world is...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Black Churches Burning White Supremacy Burning

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives...

June 18, 2015

Crying Together

Maybe we could just sit down and cry together first. In the presence of Black...

June 16, 2015

Choose Love

After years filled with state sanctioned violence and murder against people of color, the #BlackLivesMatter...

June 09, 2015

Anti-racism is essential for social change movements

From criminal justice majors at a university in Iowa, to Unitarian Universalist youth groups from...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

Happy Earth Day

It feels a bit strange to say it—Happy Earth Day—a bit like saying “Happy Memorial...

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

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

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 10, 2015

Closing the Faith Gap – Restoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965

“We all have two religions: the religion we talk about and the religion we live....