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January 2015

January 19, 2015
One of many reasons why the film Selma is so riveting is that it focuses...
January 13, 2015
I have posted previously about “Building Your Own Theology.” And this idea that you can...
January 07, 2015
A colleague reminded me recently of a quote from Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes...

December 2014

December 30, 2014
The following is a compilation of my recent “Top 10″ and “Best of” posts for...
December 29, 2014
The following are the podcasts I’ve enjoyed listening to the most consistently since this time...
December 23, 2014
This list is not my favorite new releases of the year. Instead, it is the...
December 22, 2014
My favorite season is summer, but I aspire to love the winter. Winter and I are...
December 15, 2014
Ridley Scott, is the director of such classic films as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma &...
December 11, 2014
This list is not my favorite new releases; instead, it is the best of the...
December 10, 2014
The season of Advent is upon us again, marking the start of a new lectionary year in...
December 08, 2014
Each year at the annual Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, one of highlights is always the...
December 02, 2014
The following are the top ten best books I’ve read since this time last year....

November 2014

November 10, 2014
Each year the congregation I serve as minister holds an auction. As is customary, I...
November 03, 2014
Religious Liberals (sometimes called "Religious Progressives") are open to growing, changing, and evolving based on new...

October 2014

October 29, 2014
In August, I blogged about “Tectonic Shifts in the Global Religious Landscape” on the occasion of the...
October 24, 2014
Yesterday I posted about "Reading the Same Text Differently with Jews & Christians Read" about the...
October 23, 2014
This post is about the ways Christians have often appropriated Jewish scripture in a way that does...
October 21, 2014
Parker Palmer, in his modern spiritual classic A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided...

August 2014

August 28, 2014
On August 13, 1971, the cover of LIFE Magazine featured an image of two women...
August 21, 2014
Poetry and music engage us in ways beyond what can be contained in prose alone....
August 19, 2014
The Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism set a high bar. To list only a few examples:...
August 12, 2014
This post is the final entry in a four-part series on Unitarian  Universalist history. In part one,...
August 07, 2014
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed....

July 2014

July 31, 2014
Last week I posted my response to the question “Why Unitarianism?” This week, I will explore...
July 29, 2014
This post is part of a summer-long Patheos series on 2014 Religious Trends. This week,...
July 24, 2014
This post is the first in a two-part series reflecting on Unitarian Universalism. Next week,...
July 08, 2014
The singer-songwriter Dar Williams has a song called “After All.” (If you aren’t familiar with...

June 2014

June 23, 2014
Incense fills the nostrils of a Krishna devotee in a temple in Vrindavan, India, letting...
June 19, 2014
“Seventh-Generation Thinking” means considering the longterm impact of our actions even to the seventh generation...
June 18, 2014
The stories we tell matter. The stories that we choose to tell can be used...
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