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Yasodhara: The Forgotten Story of the Buddha's Wife

Growing up in a theologically conservative congregation in South Carolina, I was taught that there was only one right way to be religious, and conveniently, it was ours. All other paths—including... read more

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Boundaries, Healing, & Hope: How to Shift Out of Survival Mode

We have been living through an extraordinarily hard time in world history, including years of threats to democracy in our country, an ongoing global pandemic, and on top of that, we’ve each had to... read more

7/14/2021 10:12:25 PM by

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"Imagine There's No Countries”: Interdependence Day &...

There’s an old joke in Unitarian Universalist (UU) circles that if there’s one “St. John” whom the greatest number of UUs revere, it’s St. John Lennon. Seriously, it’s a whole thing far beyond UUs.... read more

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Climate Justice, Courage, & Hope

I’ve read quite a few books about climate change over the past year, but I want to share some highlights from one book in particular. It’s titled Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can... read more

6/20/2021 9:55:12 PM by

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The Stories We Tell Matter: On the 100th Anniversary of the...

The stories we tell matter. The choices we make about which stories to teach our children matter. All the stories we tell and retell, year after year matter. Our choices about stories we allow to be... read more

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What Does #DefundThePolice Really Mean? Awakening Our...

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. Michael Eric Dyson, in his powerful book Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America, devastatingly described the video of... read more

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Love, Rage, & Radical Dharma

In early January I received a call from a nearby community college. They had a 15-week undergraduate World Religions course starting in a little more than three weeks that needed an instructor. Our... read more

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Another World Is Possible: What Does Prison Abolition Really...

If you hang out long enough with social justice activists, you’ll eventually hear the classic slogan “Another world is possible.” You can find it spray-painted as graffiti on subway walls, and... read more

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“Martin & Malcolm & America”

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. King was born in 1929, and if he were alive today, he would be celebrating his ninety-second birthday. I am always shocked to remember that he was only... read more

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Sacred Liberty & Desolating Sacrilege: On the Storming of the...

Introduction The violent assault on the United States Capitol Building on Wednesday was shocking and traumatic. To construct a response, I would like to start with a story from the history of my own... read more

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How to Find Meaning in Life

The year 2021 has finally arrived! And the beginning of a new year is traditionally a time for reflection on the year that has passed, reevaluation of one’s life from this new perspective, and... read more

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