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June 2014

June 16, 2014
Three weeks ago, devastating news began to break about a mass shooting in Isla Vista,...
June 09, 2014
“Crystallization of conscience” is the term the military uses for determining if a Conscientious Objector...

May 2014

May 09, 2014
Julia Ward Howe is most famous for writing the Battle Hymn of the Republic in...

April 2014

April 30, 2014
Laila Ibrahim, the Director of Children and Family Ministries at the First Unitarian Church of...
April 22, 2014
I suspect that some people might be surprised to learn that in many Unitarian Universalist...
April 08, 2014
You know the city Shurrupak, it stands on the banks of Euphrates? that city grew...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
For days, I had been participating in the annual Bengali celebration of the goddess Kali...
March 18, 2014
A man died. The people who knew him gathered to share memories. Finally, a portrait...
March 11, 2014
This post is the second in a four-part series on “A Journey with Four Spiritual...
March 06, 2014
The Rigveda from the Hindu tradition is the oldest religious text still in continuous use,...

February 2014

February 17, 2014
A few months ago, I wrote a post on “Poetically Dwelling on the Earth as...
February 10, 2014
A tradition has arisen in many progressive congregations of having a worship service near Charles...
February 03, 2014
Monday, January 21, 2013 was a High Holy Day in our nation’s "civil religion.” The...

January 2014

January 31, 2014
This post is the third and final part in a series of three posts inspired...
January 30, 2014
This post is the second in a series of three posts inspired by Anne Lamott's...
January 29, 2014
This post is the first in a series of three posts inspired by Anne Lamott's...
January 27, 2014
This year the Chinese New Year will begin on what we call January 31st on...
January 20, 2014
The Second of Unitarian Universalism's Six Sources is “Words and deeds of prophetic women and...
January 16, 2014
Sara Jayaraman’s book Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press, 2013) is this year’s Unitarian Universalist...
January 06, 2014
Two of my favorite quotes have been coming to mind recently as I reflect on...
January 02, 2014
My primary new year's resolution for 2014 is "do more yoga." Periodically over the last...

December 2013

December 23, 2013
The word“holiday,” it turns out, is a conflation of the words “holy” and “day.”You can...
December 08, 2013
The following is a compilation of my recent “Top 10″ and “Best of” posts for...
December 08, 2013
The following are the podcasts I’ve enjoyed listening to the most consistently since this time...
December 08, 2013
This list is not my favorite new releases of the year; instead, it is the...
December 08, 2013
This list is not my favorite new releases of the year; instead, it is the...
December 06, 2013
The Greek’s accepted their myths as true in the sense that they were not doubted,...
December 05, 2013
This list is not my favorite new releases; instead, it is the best of the...
December 03, 2013
The following are the top ten best books I’ve read since this time last year....

November 2013

November 22, 2013
One of my professors used to say that his favorite time of the year was...
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