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May 2013

May 25, 2013

Role Camera

It will only be five minutes. A favor. Celebrating women in the month of May...

May 24, 2013

On Keeping Up

I have a half dozen ideas for things I'd like to write about swirling about...

May 23, 2013

Benediction for the Wind (on the occasion of a killer tornado)

What better way to get people praying than to remind us of random chance? What...

May 19, 2013

Compassion and Connection

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has graced New Orleans with his presence this weekend. Prayer...

May 16, 2013

A Bad Day for Theocracy (14 May 2013, marriage equality Minnesota)

A bad day for creeds; a bad day for stares; a bad day for blind...

May 11, 2013

Creating Life

Standing in the doorway between the ticket table and the concert last night, the music...

May 10, 2013

Who Decides What Is “Value-Added?”

For whatever reasons having to do with time but also interest, I am the one...

May 04, 2013

Prayers for the Possible

In 1854, Rev. Theodore Parker prayed: “Help us to grow stronger and nobler by this...

May 02, 2013

“You’re Keeping That?”

While nursing lately, I've been watching the sun move across the dusty piano. "I've got...

May 02, 2013

Softballing with Spinoza

If a triangle could speak, it would say . . . that God is eminently...

May 01, 2013

For You Were a Stranger in Egypt

There are many biblical passages calling people to offer hospitality to the stranger. Here is...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Not Avoiding Forests, Though They Have All Those Trees

I sometimes (daily?) get overwhelmed by the minutiae of life. I often feel amazed at...

April 25, 2013

Elegy for April 22 and Richie Havens

Some days are like others And some days Richie Havens dies. It's more Than a...

April 21, 2013

Looking for Words that Help

Here’s what I’ve been musing about all week, as events of all kinds have folded...

April 20, 2013

SHINE

love is the voice under all silences; the hope which has no opposite in fear;...

April 18, 2013

Hunting Only for Kindness

I was scrubbing the dishes this evening, hot steam rising up from the sink, when...

April 18, 2013

National Poem In Your Pocket Day #pocketpoem

It’s Poem In Your Pocket Day, and like a springtime bird still dazed by the...

April 13, 2013

TODAY!

Today I have to make sure that there is a port-a-potty for the tri-congregation Earth...

April 12, 2013

Help: We All Need Somebody, Sometime

I have learned a thing or two about asking for help these past two weeks....

April 11, 2013

Bodhidharma Proposes to the Wall

Bodhidharma sat there, they say, nine years, but you know how they talk. Bodhidharma there...

April 07, 2013

Signs of New Life

Oh yes, I know that spring is finally coming to the Prairie! I can see...

April 06, 2013

The People’s Work

In The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice, Rev. Richard Gilbert lays out...

April 05, 2013

A is for…Afebrile.

I was braced for a strange and challenging week with my partner out-of-state for a...

April 04, 2013

Serious Life

Life, you’ve noticed, is serious. In all seriousness, it kicks your butt, then, in all...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

There Is No Failure But Not To Try

We do not have to wait until we are perfect to practice our faith. While...

March 29, 2013

Yes, Sweetie, Your Mama’s An Atheist…Minister. It Happens. Now, About This Sunday…

Last September, we moved to the "Little Rome" section of Northeast Washington, D.C. I expected...

March 28, 2013

Holy Week Return

Holy Week marked off from other weeks. Holy Week when William Blake returns to wail...

March 24, 2013

Longing for the Weeds

Hard to believe we’re turning towards April in Minnesota, where I live. Out my window,...

March 23, 2013

Suprised by Joy: the Gift of Forgiveness

“Forgiveness can begin the moment we accept that the past cannot be changed.” These words,...

March 21, 2013

Ordinary Time

Though March is not the season of Ordinary Time according to the Roman Catholic calendar,...