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April 2015

April 21, 2015

Commit2Respond

The Unitarian Universalist (UU) faith has taken the stand that “Advancing the human rights of...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

a love poem for a holy week

Happiness is this moment alive in the sunshine knowing I am Loved.

December 2014

December 16, 2014

Don’t Let the Light Go Out

The Feast of Hanukkah, commemorating the rededication of the Temple in particular and the resistance...

November 2014

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 18, 2014

Eight Virtues for Generous Living

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

November 04, 2014

Election Day, November 4, 2014

Today is the day, friends. The day to VOTE. This is the day when we...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

Twenty Inches

Twenty inches isn’t all that high. It’s less than two feet. My daughter was 20...

October 14, 2014

Companions on the journey

“May beauty and passion and compassion be our companions. May we be fully alive. Amen.”...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

The Courage for Compassion

Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.”...

September 02, 2014

When in doubt, choose the side of Compassion

The Thursday following the fundamentalist disruption of worship service at First Unitarian Universalist Church of...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Because it is the Faithful Thing To Do

{Editor's Note: Due to technical difficulties, this post, originally scheduled for August 19th, was delayed...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Circle Round for Freedom

The opposite of liberal religion is not conservative religion. It is fundamentalism – the deep...

July 10, 2014

Eleanor Rigby’s Selfie

We learned from the Beatles that Eleanor Rigby “keeps her face in a jar by...

July 03, 2014

Way to Go, Supreme Court: Another #facepalm

A Primo #Facepalm Moment To be a citizen of the United States is to experience...

June 2014

June 10, 2014

Disappear or Die: Southern Black Trans-Experience

Today we bless Tela La’Raine Love as she prepares for her gender reassignment surgery. ...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

What to Wear

OK, time for the teensiest bit of a rant, here. It starts with the fact...

May 14, 2014

We’ve Come This Far…

For her 75th birthday, my Granny talked my dad, her 4th born son, into driving...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Rest Easy

The high April winds blowing damage across the US this week also blew something into...

April 01, 2014

Women with a Vision – and a Voice!

Lately I’ve been struggling with the language of the non-profit world: “giving people a...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

All the Rage

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

February 18, 2014

Remember? #NeverLovedUs

“By not finding Dunn guilty of murder, the jury could not unanimously conclude that one...

February 11, 2014

Bee Wise

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

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Epiphany (Continues)

[More king cakes than you can imagine and only two weeks into Epiphany, I am...

December 2013

December 24, 2013

Joy to the World!

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

December 10, 2013

The Goal of World Community with Peace, Liberty, and Justice for All

December 10, 2013 “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable...

December 03, 2013

Deep South

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

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Songs that Save Us

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

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...

October 2013

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 05, 2013

Together

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