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October 2017

October 19, 2017
“I remember standing in the hallways of that same CNN where Lou Dobbs worked, and...
October 12, 2017
Michelle Obama famously called us to be our best selves as citizens: “When someone is...
October 04, 2017
Patrick Carey, a theology professor, who has written the best modern biography of Orestes Brownson...

September 2017

September 28, 2017
It is vital not to forget this Yom Kippur, a time in the Jewish tradition...
September 22, 2017
This post is a continuation of yesterday's theme of "American Muslims." Regarding the first line...
September 21, 2017
There are approximately 1.5 billion Muslims in the world today, making it the world’s second...
September 14, 2017
(This post is a continuation of my topic yesterday on "Bioethics, CRISPR, & “Our Children...
September 13, 2017
Have you been following the breaking news about the revolutionary new gene-editing technology CRISPR? Not...
September 08, 2017
The “Fight for 15” is a current goal of the labor movement to secure both...
September 01, 2017
This post is a continuation of yesterday's theme of "Orwell, Atwood, Butler: Reading for Resistance...

August 2017

August 31, 2017
This summer at the congregation where I serve as minister, we hosted a three-part book...
August 23, 2017
Fourteen years ago, I moved to Louisiana to serve as the Associate Pastor in a progressive...
August 18, 2017
This post is a continuation of my topic yesterday on "What Do Animals Think &...
August 17, 2017
2,500 years ago, a Greek philosopher named Protagoras (c. 490 – c. 420 BCE) declared...
August 11, 2017
My post yesterday was on “waking up” into different states of consciousness. My focus today...
August 10, 2017
Ken Wilber (1949-) is a contemporary American philosopher who has written a host of books...

July 2017

July 21, 2017
(This post is a continuation of yesterday's theme of "Dissent.") When considering the ongoing struggle...
July 20, 2017
In my tradition of Unitarian Universalism, it is significant to recall that this past Wednesday...
July 14, 2017
(This post is a continuation of yesterday's post on “A Brief History of Tomorrow”: What Apple,...
July 13, 2017
I have posted previously about the bestselling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by...

June 2017

June 15, 2017
(This post is a continuation of yesterday's post on "Chögyam Trungpa & Pragmatic, Modern Meditation.")...
June 14, 2017
I have posted previously about my interest in pragmatic approaches to meditation. Such approaches seek...
June 08, 2017
Looking back, the philosopher John Caputo (1940 - ) writes that some of his earliest,...
June 07, 2017
As an undergraduate, I was a double-major in philosophy and religion. In some ways those...

May 2017

May 22, 2017
On April 8, 1990, I was twelve years old. For whatever confluence of events, I...
May 18, 2017
This post is a continuation of my previous post on Mary Moody Emerson: Ralph Waldo’s...
May 16, 2017
Mary Moody Emerson (1774-1863) was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s aunt, whom he called his “earliest and...
May 11, 2017
(This post is a continuation from my post yesterday on Countercultural Spirituality, Then & Now.)...
May 10, 2017
Over the past few years, I have written three posts inspired by the scholarship of Jeffrey Kripal:...
May 03, 2017
Two years ago, I was trained as a facilitator for a Unitarian Universalist Minister’s Association...
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