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March 2015

March 26, 2015

Religious Arguments: Where Are the Grownups?

RABBITS In November of 1726 news reached London that a physician had assisted a woman...

March 19, 2015

The Transient, the Permanent, and the Stitching Horse: What Remains True in Religions

When I was a kid, I loved wandering in the barn on my grandfather’s farm....

March 12, 2015

Humanism and a Theology of Liberation (Without Strangling Priests)

Humanism does not require the death of God. All it requires is the affirmation of...

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....

March 05, 2015

Selma Plus Fifty: Time For an Eight-Lane Bridge

WHERE ONLY BLACK MEN JAYWALK We are rightly celebrating the bravery of people—both the famous...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Religious Humanism: What Was Old is New Again

Church Attendance Free Fall The Barna Group, a research group that keeps up with trends...

February 19, 2015

Apocalypse: What Death Cults Really Want

The recent Atlantic article by Graeme Wood, “What Isis Really Wants,” examines the Isis phenomenon...

February 12, 2015

Greenery Without People: The Future of Post-Religious Community

I don’t get it about the natural world. Like, greenery, without people in it, is...

February 11, 2015

Is Sex Necessary?

My colleagues in Unitarian Universalist ministry are blogging this month under the hashtag #SexUUality. Sex...

February 09, 2015

How Do We Interact on the Cyber-Commons?

I bet I’m not the only one whose Facebook page is lighting up right now...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

The Bigness of our Littleness: Humanism and Individualism

Late in his life the philosopher Richard Rorty—well known to be an atheist—was asked...

January 22, 2015

Selma: Death of a Meta-narrative

OK, I admit it—I love it when postmodernism calls it right. And the screeches and...

January 13, 2015

As the movement builds, let us remember

I learned in school that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream....

January 08, 2015

Covenant: Broken Promises, Dumb Ideas, and Ways Forward

Captain, We're Out of Beer! When those adventurers we now call the Pilgrims realized they...

January 06, 2015

Finding Home

This week I clicked the visitor tab of a congregation I do not know and found...

January 01, 2015

Religion: It’s What You Do

Seriously, No Joke Have you ever noticed how pointless it is to ask someone, “What’s...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

The ‘Ol Heave Ho Ho

You’ve seen them spilling off the paved trail into the woods; you’ve seen them in...

December 18, 2014

Heartbroken in America

This week my guest blogger is Jim Foti, the assistant minister at the congregation I...

December 11, 2014

White Privilege: Kumbaya Won’t Cut It

How Sad A sad fact: Many things that are good for society or the earth itself...

December 09, 2014

A Prayer for Wonder Restored

What does is mean to be a people of wonder? This was the evening’s invitational...

December 09, 2014

Peace, Justice and the Wisdom to Know the Difference

It is advent, friends. At this time of year people often talk about the Kingdom...

December 04, 2014

Could That “Riot” Be an Uprising?

Let’s face it, the last several days have been hard on White Power. Despite a...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

On this #Ferguson #Thanksgiving, America:—What’s Your Mission Statement?

The British novelist Charles Dickens toured the US in the early 1840s. Dickens was considerably...

November 26, 2014

Seeing is Believing

In the wake of Ferguson, in the wake of Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant and...

November 25, 2014

“the war against dehumanization is ceaseless”

"They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is...

November 20, 2014

Subjectivity, Existence, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

All of us are born into a world we do not understand. All human beings...

November 18, 2014

Eight Virtues for Generous Living

Patheos generously sent me a copy of The Grace of Yes: Eight Virtues for Generous...

November 13, 2014

Just Yesterday I Got the Call

Just yesterday I got the call. “Reverend Maginn,” declares Chaplain Jason Dipinto who has faithfully...

November 13, 2014

Blinding and Beheading: One Path, Many Mountains

"I have been Don Quixote, always creating a world of my own." ~Anais Nin...

November 06, 2014

The Losing Team

Another election has come and gone. Some people, presumably, are delighted, while others are filled...