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December 2013

December 09, 2013

December

I grew up on the western edge of the Eastern Standard time zone. That means...

December 05, 2013

Nelson Mandela

The great Nelson Mandela has died. Peacefully, after a long illness, surrounded by the love...

December 05, 2013

Images, Imagination, and Iconoclasts

In 1642, during the British Civil War, Protestant troops of Cromwell’s New Model Army celebrated...

December 03, 2013

Deep South

Planned Parenthood of Louisiana hosted a screening of deepsouth last night in honor of World...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Tornados, Typhoons, and Straw Dogs: Giving Thanks With Some Thinking

Thanksgiving American style. The day declared a national holiday for the purpose of giving thanks....

November 25, 2013

In the Need of Prayer

In the past few days, I have asked friends and colleagues to pray for a...

November 19, 2013

Living History: How JFK’s assassination woke me up

I was sitting in a small desk, and Mrs. Graham was at the front of...

November 19, 2013

Songs that Save Us

Emma’s Revolution came to New Orleans and offered a workshop focused on singing and songwriting...

November 14, 2013

How Sisyphus Got It Right

I have participated in National Novel Writing Month three times now. I have never reached...

November 12, 2013

Anything I can do, We can do better…

“We think that honesty and living in truth are better ways to live than propaganda...

November 07, 2013

Morality: It’s About Hopping Out of That Tree

We all make a decision every day, consciously or unconsciously: Am I going to cooperate...

November 06, 2013

Raking Leaves

People regularly say to me that they wouldn’t want to live in California, because they...

November 02, 2013

The Lights of Diwali, and Also the Dark

Everyone has to make a living somehow. Some weekends, my job has me blessing unions...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Run Away! Run Away! Fear and the Problem of Progressivism

Let’s face it, progressives just don’t do fear well. Conservatives go to town with death...

October 29, 2013

Messy & Beloved? Yes.

Beloved Community is ever on my mind lately, both who we are and who we...

October 24, 2013

To Becoming Silent

by Pablo Neruda (translation by David Breeden) Now, let's all count to twelve, then keep...

October 19, 2013

A Garden Prayer

That shrimp plant so determined to be seen poking through the ginger and the fig...

October 17, 2013

Here an Ist, There an Ist, Everywhere an Ist-Ist

The other day I got a subscription offer from a magazine called Free Inquiry, a...

October 12, 2013

Who does your heart break for?

Last month I had the joy of participating in the first Life on Fire un-conference...

October 10, 2013

The ABCs of Extortion

A. Thucydides--that Greek telling his story, human doings with nary a nod to the gods--said...

October 05, 2013

Together

Beloveds, I believe that we are all in this together – and together, we can...

October 04, 2013

America…Where Do We Begin?

I can’t sleep. Again. Tonight I’m thinking about how, in the city where I live,...

October 03, 2013

Swimming in the Christian Waters (or: Beware, You May be a Humanist)

Let’s say you find yourself living in, oh, let’s say the United States. It’s a...

October 01, 2013

Ideology

The government has come screeching to a halt because Speaker Boehner, under pressure from the...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Seeing, from the Cheap Seats

There are gifts that come of breathing, that come of blood driving through veins, ...

September 19, 2013

Autumn Light, Surprise

So, evening fell on you, didn’t it? And you did not know what day....

September 16, 2013

WTF?

Really, WTF? Has people shooting at strangers become a sort of national pastime? Are we...

September 12, 2013

Who’s In and Who’s Out of Institutions (and the immigrants between)

The British social anthropologist Mary Douglas had this to say about institutions: Inside a...

September 11, 2013

A Better Choice

It was a few days after the 9/11 tragedy. We had done our best to...

September 08, 2013

Season of Forgiveness

Reflecting on his experience as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, the International Military Tribunal...