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March 2014

March 20, 2014

In Which Cackling Self Vanquishes Wild Grief, While Rational Self Could Not

Newsflash: Grief is completely irrational. Does this surprise me? Not rationally. I knew it, know...

March 18, 2014

Do Justice

I am ever so grateful that I was assigned The Wolf Shall Dwell with the...

March 13, 2014

Sin Isn’t Very Original: Dostoyevsky and the Freedom to Really Mess Things Up

I have a terrible confession: almost all of the calories I consume in a day,...

March 11, 2014

WATER SOLIDARITY

Environmental Justice struggles with a news cycle that may report a disaster, may revisit on...

March 06, 2014

Nature, Nurture, Murder: The Lessons of the Eugenics Craze

In the world of super heroes, it’s called an “origin story,” that trauma that led...

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 26, 2014

All the Rage

Apparently it is all the rage these days for state legislatures to introduce “religious freedom”...

February 24, 2014

Thank You For…

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

February 20, 2014

How Unitarian Universalists Do Church

I suppose everybody has a favorite founding document for a religion or a nation. Mine...

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 11, 2014

Bee Wise

This winter has devastated my sub-tropical garden in New Orleans. I was out of town...

February 10, 2014

The Harvest Comes

On a blazingly sunny January morning, I marched into a sanctuary outside of Denver, Colorado...

February 06, 2014

Apocalypse Never (and what we can do about it)

I grew up in the Pentecostal church. When I was ten, I knew just how...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

A Scream and a Theory: Natural Selection and the Higher Moral Order

Scientific theories do not occur in a vacuum. Like poems or paintings, theories reflect the...

January 29, 2014

A Whole Heart: Remembering Pete Seeger

For the last couple of days my Facebook feed has been full of tributes to...

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 23, 2014

Flying Over the Squares (for small farmers)

The little towns in their squares light up, as do the scattered lights of farmyards...

January 16, 2014

A Gift, A Letter, and a Drowning Man: The Legacy of “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

There’s an old Zen story that does like this: Once there was a great...

January 09, 2014

What A Miracle Is

Once I crossed the Sierra Madres with a bus driver named Arturo who had...

January 08, 2014

After the Resolutions Die

OK, we’re now a week into the new year, which is about the time that...

January 07, 2014

Unconditional Love: An Epiphany

Over winter solstice, I watched my father tending to KG, his first grandchild, with unconditional...

January 04, 2014

The Eager Chaplain

Early in ministry, there are skills to be learned. Preaching, counseling, the coffee-hour nod that...

January 02, 2014

Sometimes It Takes A Lie

Sometimes it takes a lie to keep a religion. "It's merely a game," they told...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Empty Suitcase

The cat snuggles down into my empty suitcase, out to fill for a trip. She...

December 25, 2013

Complicity: A Christmas Story

One spring had me moonlighting on crisis response. I was far from an expert. Only...

December 24, 2013

Joy to the World!

As the Community Minister for the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists, I spend a lot...

December 17, 2013

For the Beauty of the Earth…

I was walking in City Park with a community organizer this week when suddenly we...

December 12, 2013

Another Reason for the Season

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral...