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September 2015

September 10, 2015

Five Reasons to Congregate in a Congregation

Why bother joining a congregation rather than, oh, say, a bowling league? 1. To meet...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

How Secular is “Religious”?

We don’t know how the ready access to information will ultimately change the human condition,...

August 18, 2015

In times of grief and struggle, remember, friends

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Informed Eclecticism: Why Unitarian Universalism Needs Wing Nuts

The Very Hungry Syncretism Orthodox Unitarian Universalism is syncretic, in theologian-lingo. In philosophy and the...

July 16, 2015

Guest Blogger Maria Greene asks, Why is Humanism So Scary for the UUA?

In the late 1960s—like so many other liberal movements—Humanism lost its way. Understandably, many Universalist...

July 14, 2015

It’s a Both/And kind of world

There is a lot of either/or thinking in the common narrative today...and I think the world is...

July 09, 2015

Unitarian Humanism, That Peculiar Animal

Integrity. The word comes from the Latin, integer, “intact.” Related words include integer, a “whole...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Black Churches Burning White Supremacy Burning

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

The Wrath of Pew and the Road to Character

Schadenfreude No More Another Pew poll showing another major decline in church attendance appeared this...

March 2015

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....

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 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...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

A Prayer for Wonder Restored

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

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Sunny Side Up with a Side of Racism?

Yesterday after church, my family and I stopped at a favorite cafe in Hartford. It's...

August 2014

August 14, 2014

The Rise of the Totally Awesome ‘Whatever’ God

“Moralistic therapeutic deism.” That’s the term sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton coined to...

August 07, 2014

Spiritual but not Superstitious (Mystical Without the Mumbling)

“Spirituality” is emotion. Sometimes the spiritual emotion springs from a consciously adopted attitude toward the...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Reps of God: Christian Triumphalism and the DIY Future of Unitarian Universalism

LITE The future of Unitarian Universalism does not lie in Christianity Lite any more than...

July 24, 2014

House on Fire: Church Attendance in the US

There it is, yet another study indicating that the number of American Christians who attend...

July 22, 2014

Circle Round for Freedom

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

June 2014

June 12, 2014

The Proof’s in the Pudding (or What’s Churchy about Church?)

Imagine I’m sometimes asked how humanists can have “church” without invoking god. Here’s how I...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

What is a “weekend,” exactly?

"Have a nice weekend," people say to each other in passing. Yet fewer and fewer...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

Earth: Our Deep Home Place

The Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalist cluster gathered in an oak -filled park on Sunday...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Do Justice

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

March 07, 2014

When Plans Go Awry

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground." -- Rumi If you...

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 20, 2014

How Unitarian Universalists Do Church

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

December 2013

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...

December 05, 2013

Images, Imagination, and Iconoclasts

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

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....