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April 2017

April 27, 2017

Ashes to Ashes, Humus to Humus, and Humility

Humility. Everyone knows it’s a virtue, since its opposite is . . . what? hubris?...

April 20, 2017

Savoring The Milquetoast: Why This Humanist Remains a Unitarian Universalist

Why would a Humanist want to be a Unitarian Universalist? As the president of the...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Bad Theology=Bad Politics

I hear an undercurrent of assumption in much of the current liberal rhetoric—a mythology that...

March 02, 2017

Meaning, Purpose, and Individualism: Thinking Our Way Out of Self-Reliance

We human beings appear to be the only animals that become confused about our meaning...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Working for Posterity

Sir Boyle Roche was an eighteenth century Irish politician known even today because of his...

January 2017

January 12, 2017

#Humanism, Specism, and the Baggage of Words

In a recent op ed article in The New York Times, Natasha Lennard and Cary...

January 05, 2017

Ay Caramba! Decolonizing the Mind

The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony...

October 2016

October 20, 2016

Outsourced Morality

True confession: I understand Trump voters. I come from that place. We’re the same people...

October 13, 2016

One Hundred Years of Humanism

Humanism is a product of Unitarian thought. The first Humanist congregation was a Unitarian one,...

October 06, 2016

Theology is Words, Words Matter

When people first visit First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, a very common first response to...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Ganesha, Nietzsche, Truth, Consequences

The story goes that Shiva—one of the chief manifestations of divinity in Hinduism—and his...

September 15, 2016

Humanism: Without God, Not Anti-God

The September 2016 Atlantic features an article about new Humanist communities titled “A Less Lonely...

September 08, 2016

Sharing in the Anthropocene

My ethics in terms of economics comes from the first of the Humanist Manifestos: “Humanists...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

Stoic Mindfulness

As the number of the post-religious skyrockets in the United States, the “mindfulness” train is...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Cosmopolitanism in a Time of Petty Nationalism

To be Humanist is to say, with the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, “My city is...

July 21, 2016

When Hope Seems Silly

The life that no longer trusts another human being and no longer forms ties to...

July 12, 2016

A Review of Grace Without God: the Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age by Katherine Ozment.

By Rev. Dr. David Breeden A question from one of her children sends Ozment on...

July 07, 2016

They Ain’t Heavy: UU Pluralism and Its Discontents

One of the most serious issues for a tradition such as Unitarian Universalism that has...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Beyond the Congeries of Banks: Finding a Moral Center

After the September 1938 Munich Pact with which the European democracies ceded territory to Nazi...

June 09, 2016

No Gods, No Masters, and the Humanist Way of Thinking

Humanism developed in late Medieval Christianity, but moved on. European humanism reached high points in...

June 02, 2016

Cafeteria, Smorgasbord, Grubhub: Religion Delivery Today

A Twitter meme says, “Spiritual but not religious: people who prefer to make up their own...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Oh, Peugeot of Many Names: on authentically using the term “god”

It Is What It Is Despite what many conventionally religious people appear to think, humanism...

May 19, 2016

#Religion: Let’s Talk About the Relationship

Recently I saw a bumper sticker: “It’s not a religion / It’s a relationship.” The...

May 12, 2016

Getting a Mission On

If I’ve learned anything from serving and visiting several congregations, it is that survival is...

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...

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,...