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February 2020

February 06, 2020
For the Ordination of Scot Hull as a Unitarian Universalist Minister Traditional Reading (Proverbs 3:13-18):...

January 2020

January 08, 2020
Happy New Year! And happy new decade! For anyone wondering, yes I’m aware that since...

December 2019

December 28, 2019
The following are the top ten best books I’ve read this decade--in alphabetical order by...
December 28, 2019
The following are the top ten best books I’ve read since this time last year--in...

November 2019

November 20, 2019
In early August, the news spread around the world that Toni Morrison (1931-2019) had died....
November 12, 2019
What does (and doesn’t) work in building the better world we dream about? Why do...
November 04, 2019
On Sunday, we passed the mark of being one year away from the next U.S....

October 2019

October 30, 2019
If you were enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, one of your required...
October 24, 2019
I. Big History The English writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his...
October 14, 2019
Joy Harjo is our current United States Poet Laureate, and the first enrolled member of...
October 10, 2019
Here’s the thing about big words such as community, peace, liberty, and justice: they mean...
October 03, 2019
We are in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days, which stretch from Rosh...

September 2019

September 24, 2019
Martin Hägglund (1976 - ), originally from Sweden, is a professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities...
September 17, 2019
At the end of many classes and events, there is an opportunity to complete an...
September 11, 2019
Among anthropologists, there’s a classic story about a western missionary meeting an indigenous inhabitant of...

July 2019

July 01, 2019
On the occasion of ordaining a new minister in the Unitarian Universalist Living Tradition. One of my...

June 2019

June 27, 2019
There is a fascinating passage from President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address that has stuck with...

March 2019

March 08, 2019
In the seventeenth century, the English politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) wrote of all we might...

February 2019

February 21, 2019
Ginger Lerner-Wren thought she knew what she was getting into. In 1996, she ran as...
February 12, 2019
Charles Darwin was born two hundred and ten years ago today on February 12, 1809....

January 2019

January 31, 2019
Adam Winkler (1967-) is a professor of constitutional law at UCLA. I first encountered him...
January 21, 2019
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I am aware of two  significant—though also painful—anniversaries...

December 2018

December 31, 2018
As I have been learning more about the hidden life of trees, I have also...
December 14, 2018
The following are the top ten best books I’ve read since this time last year--in...
December 10, 2018
One of the most interesting contemporary religion scholars I have found is Jeffrey Kripal, a tenured...
December 06, 2018
A few months ago I finally had the chance to visit the National Museum of...

November 2018

November 30, 2018
The late Alan Westin (1929 - 2013) was a Professor of Public Law & Government...
November 16, 2018
On the other side of Election Day, many systems of oppression remain in place, but...
November 05, 2018
On the eve of the U.S. midterm elections, it is important to be honest, clear,...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
Nathan Walker’s fascinating and provocative book Cultivating Empathy: The Worth and Dignity of Every Person...
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