August Landmesser, the man who refused to salute… Read more

This past Sunday I experienced the most wonderful thing. Our Unitarian Universalist president Peter Morales and United Church of Christ general minister Geoffrey Black and some three hundred and fifty people came together to call on the Senate of the State of Rhode Island to finish the job begun by the House of Representatives and to respond to the heart call of the governor and the citizens, and to vote marriage equality into our laws. The preparation was hard. Getting... Read more

So, there I was, copying out sample letters to send to various generals, dictators, potentates, and other bad actors or their ambassadors asking as politely as possible that they stop torturing someone, and, if they could, please, pretty please to go one step further and let that person go free. Okay, copying isn’t exactly right for how I do my letters. People have noticed I’m not the most compliant person they’ve met, and so, yes, I made various changes on... Read more

Here’s the invitation. To sit down. To allow our wandering hearts a moment of quiet. And a hint: quiet does not mean we stop breathing, or children stop fidgeting, or the events of our lives don’t rise in our minds. It means we open ourselves, we open our hearts. It is letting go of our certainties, and allowing what is, to be. Now. Here are some things the wise have found in those moments of opened heart. Perhaps, if you... Read more

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On this day in 1895, following his disastrous law suit for libel against Marquess of Queensberry, is arrested in his room at the Cadogan Hotel, charged with “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons.” Later, John Betjeman would sing of those moments at room 118 in the hotel… Read more

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered on this day in 1968. And yet, as the cartoon suggests, and yet… Read more

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A number of people have been concerned as to how Zen can be practiced by people with no access to a local teacher or where the local center hasn’t been a good fit. I think of Jundo Cohen as a pioneer in this work. There are others, as well. And now Dosho Port has decided to offer online guidance in Zen training. I’ve known Dosho for years, we’ve worked closely together in examining the great matter, and I enthusiastically endorse... Read more