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May 2016

May 05, 2016

#Mindfulness and the View We Take of Things

One on Every Corner There’s a lot of talk about spiritual practice these days. “Mindfulness”...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Getting Real With Church (or: More Questions Than Answers)

In a recent blog post by marketing entrepreneur Seth Godin called “Supply and Demand” Godin...

April 21, 2016

So You Want a #Spiritual Experience? #SBNR

GET YOUR AWE ON Which religion offers the best chance at a spiritual experience? Thirty-nine...

April 14, 2016

Bingo (and Religion) Exists and Is Everywhere About Us

A RELIGIOUS NON-COMBATANT For some reason, when some folks discover I’m a humanist, they seem...

April 12, 2016

A spiritual responsibility for a moral tomorrow

In case the not so subtle nuances and coded language around race and class that are...

April 07, 2016

Humanist Humility

One of the most persistent cliches about humanists is that we are human-o-centric and egotistical....

April 05, 2016

Letter to the Editor

Louisiana is the most incarcerated place in the world. Let's truly sit with that for...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

What’s the Beef with Purple Cows? On Logos and Mythos

What's the difference between a poem and a mathematical equation? Say, between Einstein’s E=MC2 and...

March 24, 2016

Cutting Some Slack for Integrity

Reformers. Protestants. Heretics. Loudmouths. William Tyndale’s (1494-1536) crime was translating the bible into English. Tyndale said,...

March 22, 2016

Holy Work in this Holy Week

As the Christian world grieves and celebrates the Passion of Christ during this Holy Week,...

March 17, 2016

Cheap Grace and Humanist Ritual, Part II

God must be replaced with a symbol capable of generating a different and more productive...

March 15, 2016

The Grace of Learning

In life, there are many things we can learn from other people. And there are...

March 10, 2016

Humanist Ritual, Part One

God must be replaced with a symbol capable of generating a different and more productive...

March 03, 2016

#Humanism: Who We Are; What We Do; Why It Matters

I. Who We Are Religions and philosophies serve as heuristic devices for life, providing shape...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Humanist Jesus

The changing religious landscape in the US is a bit hard to get one's head...

February 18, 2016

To Whom It May Concern: the Humanist/Theist Split in Unitarian Universalism

Since I’m an out-there Humanist, I get asked fairly often how Unitarian Universalists might go...

February 16, 2016

The heartwork of coming alive

“Under all the harsh noise of the world coming in on us, this is how...

February 11, 2016

On Prayer

Emily Dickinson wrote, Of Course I prayed And did God Care? He cared as much...

February 04, 2016

Love Thy Neighbor As . . .

There’s an old Buddhist story that goes like this: Once a mother found her baby...

February 02, 2016

Carnival Redux, epiphanies too!

While revelation is ever unfolding, sometimes it is worth looking back through the transience for...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

A Shared Life in a Shared World: #Humanist Economics

Grim Numbers Rising economic inequality. We live in a world in which sixty two human...

January 21, 2016

Relax: #Humanism Is Not Mack the Knife

Small Humanist groups are popping up and organizing around the US, some as independent groups,...

January 14, 2016

Some Accumulated Wisdom for Seminarians

One of the best aspects of being a senior minister is working with ministers-in-training. I...

January 07, 2016

#Apatheism

This year First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis is celebrating a century of humanism. Rev. John...

January 05, 2016

The Lure of Our Worst Natures

I think you could argue that if we characterized candidates for the presidency in Freudian...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Redefining #Religion: You Might Be a Religious Naturalist

The Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion defines religion this way: From the Latin relegare...

December 29, 2015

Instructions for the New Year

Beloveds, as we prepare for the new year, I invite you to take a deep...

December 24, 2015

Some Slack for the Tense on the Holidays

I know, I know—some people just love the holiday season—“the hap-, hap-, happiest time of...

December 24, 2015

A Christmas Conversation

“What do you want for Christmas?” I asked my soul. No response. “No, really, it’s...

December 17, 2015

Why Would Anyone Want to be a Minister?

My mother says I was born serious. Could be. For example, I remember that when...