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March 2016

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 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 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...

January 2016

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...

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 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 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...

December 03, 2015

Fear, Hope, and Hell In A Hand Basket

I learned to type on a manual typewriter. There’s wasn’t an exclamation point (!) on...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Grace for the Rest of Us

Grace. Some say it before meals. Some have it for a name. Grace-ful people have...

November 11, 2015

The “Trinsics”: Where are You Coming From?

Psychologist Gordon Allport argued that there are two types of religious experience—the extrinsic and the...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

Words, Words, and the Word Was With . . .

In his play Hamlet, Shakespeare has the character Polonius ask Hamlet, “What do you read,...

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...

September 03, 2015

Integrity and the Big Hole in Wholeness

You’ve heard it; you’ve thought it; perhaps you’ve even said it: “She is SO together!”...

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 13, 2015

Some Basics About #Humanism

Definition: Humanism is an evidence-based value system dedicated to freedom of thought and the promotion...

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...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Religious Arguments: Where Are the Grownups?

RABBITS In November of 1726 news reached London that a physician had assisted a woman...

March 12, 2015

Humanism and a Theology of Liberation (Without Strangling Priests)

Humanism does not require the death of God. All it requires is the affirmation of...