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December 2012

December 03, 2012
This post is the second in a series of at least five posts on Unitarian...
December 02, 2012
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories,...

November 2012

November 27, 2012
This list is not my favorite new releases; instead, it is the best of the...
November 26, 2012
On this weekend after Thanksgiving, one of the many things I am grateful for is...
November 26, 2012
The following are the top ten best books I’ve read since this time last year....
November 18, 2012
As I was preparing a final revision of this post on gratitude, I conveniently stumbled...
November 14, 2012
This post is the first in a series of at least five posts on Unitarian...
November 12, 2012
Unitarian Universalists care about how to create unity amidst diversity. But as I studied the...
November 04, 2012
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our...

October 2012

October 22, 2012
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge...
October 17, 2012
Beliefs are an important part of religion, but they are by no means its only...
October 11, 2012
The following is the text of my letter to the editor, which was published in...
October 08, 2012
I have been trying to find a way of being religious that’s still possible (or...

September 2012

September 28, 2012
I want to like Paul Thomas Anderson's new film The Master, and perhaps my expectations were...
September 27, 2012
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls...
September 10, 2012
Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in...
September 04, 2012
If someone is naked, starving, and wrongly imprisoned, your faith and beliefs are barely relevant,...
September 04, 2012
Jesus is usually so mind-blowingly impressive that we can forget he did not emerge from...
September 02, 2012
As a religious people who affirm human compassion, advocate for human rights, and seek justice,...

August 2012

August 20, 2012
Representative Todd Akin, a six-term member of Congress and the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, said...
August 13, 2012
In 1962, only a couple of years after I was born, pollsters found that 2%...

July 2012

July 24, 2012
(Tim Stafford, Miracles: A Journalist Looks at Modern Day Experiences of God's Power , 2012, 219 pages.)...
July 23, 2012
When I was 12, the most salient books on my parents' shelves were two red-bound...
July 15, 2012
(Will Davis, Jr., Enough: Finding More by Living with Less, 2012, 232 pages.) This book review is...
July 14, 2012
“The religious quest is not about discovering ‘the truth’ or ‘the meaning of life,’ but...
July 07, 2012
For regular readers, with this post I will have finally had a chance to share...
July 07, 2012
I recently had the opportunity to attend a morning workshop with Ellen Davis on "Honest...
July 04, 2012
Discernment was a major emphasis of my spiritual direction training at San Francisco Theological Seminary....
July 04, 2012
According to The New York Times (and many other media outlets), Physicists working at CERN’s...
July 03, 2012
(Logan Mehl-Laituri, Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism & Conscience, 2012,...
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