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August 2013

August 30, 2013

September = Back to….

It's September, pretty much, and all-the-sudden. I feel the lure of "back-to-school" as surely as...

August 24, 2013

Today

Today I am going to try and live into the simplicity and struggle of this...

August 22, 2013

Naming the Ultimate, Part Two

A quick peek at www.godchecker.com gives some indication of the sheer number of times humanity...

August 17, 2013

Culture Shift

There is an old and often told story of a child walking along a beach,...

August 16, 2013

Welcome To This Broken World, Sweetheart (2013)

Amid the commotion of our family's ordinary daily lives, I do pay some attention to...

August 15, 2013

Naming the Ultimate, Part One

I suspect that we think about the ultimate because we can’t manage to see ourselves...

August 10, 2013

UU Verbs

I had the honor of spending this week with a dozen youth who chose to...

August 08, 2013

Weathering

When the storm comes in a bird sits on a limb in the suddenly solidly...

August 07, 2013

Forty Seven Weddings and a Funeral

It’s been almost a week now, but I’m still internalizing the seismic change taking place...

August 02, 2013

Red Light, Green Light, Slow Year, Fast Year

At 7:44am, one year ago today, our Little Bean finally came out into the world,...

August 01, 2013

Free Will, Fate, and Destiny: A Humanist Perspective

Human religions have always been built upon foundations of the best available science of the...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Keep the Faith!

In his story of a man with a sneering wife, Sufi master Rumi begins: A...

July 25, 2013

America’s God (a lullaby)

“It was all God’s plan.” George Zimmerman In the United States, God loves white and...

July 20, 2013

Embodied Justice, Embodied Speech

Beloveds, let us have a common vocabulary. In the midst of the conversation on race...

July 19, 2013

How Many Summers Left?

I do not love hot weather. I do not love intense humidity and stepping out...

July 18, 2013

My Covenant with All That Is

I pledge to follow The earth’s gentle curve As I go; I pledge to breathe...

July 13, 2013

A Prayer for those Whose Hearts are on Fire

A prayer after the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman Spirit of love and justice,...

July 12, 2013

O Parenting: You Humble Me

Our Little Bean is starting to stand, ever-so-momentarily, on her own. Meanwhile, our lives careen...

July 11, 2013

But Where’s the Woo-Woo?

“Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; / Or surely you'll grow double,” said...

July 07, 2013

Weeding Out Racism

I’m a gardener in the upper Midwest, so in July I spend a lot of...

July 04, 2013

Freedom . . . for Which?

I subscribe to the notion that separating out religion from other meaning-making systems is valid...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Beautiful Wordlessness

I'll try to keep this post short. Because that's what I've been appreciating lately: few...

June 27, 2013

Arguing Over the Light

All religions, all this singing,  one song. Rumi  1. A poet I met once, Leslie...

June 20, 2013

They Walk Into the Place Where (a reflection on immigration)

They walk into the place carrying a bandana, carrying a balaclava, carrying a bordada made...

June 14, 2013

Doing It All…A Little Bit.

I am going to have to go back to work eventually. I mean, two women...

June 13, 2013

Here, In This Flow

The turtles go out of their water this time of year, slow on roadways, slow...

June 10, 2013

A People of Promise

We are all in this together, beloveds. All of creation is ultimately and intimately relational....

June 07, 2013

Into the Summer Daze

We want summer to be leisurely. We want it to be restful. We want it...

June 06, 2013

Our Place in the Alhambra

1. Go ahead, climb up the Alhambra brick-- taxis can’t come here, and the effort...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Incarceration Nation

Incarceration nation, where did you put your young men? You put them in a plea...