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June 2016

June 14, 2016
(The following is a transcript of the speech I delivered Tuesday in Frederick, Maryland at a Candlelight...
June 14, 2016
As a teenager, when I went to events with my theologically conservative youth group, there...
June 07, 2016
Slate's Political Gabfest - one of my favorite weekly podcasts for a few years now that becomes...
June 02, 2016
Memorial Day has sometimes become merely a three-day holiday weekend, symbolically marking the beginning of...

May 2016

May 19, 2016
One of my new favorite books is The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating...
May 10, 2016
I was excited to see that the renown feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter had published...
May 03, 2016
Over the past few decades, many studies have shown a growing political polarization in our...

April 2016

April 29, 2016
Historically, one of the weaknesses of liberal religious traditions has been a naïve optimism. In...
April 19, 2016
A few years ago, a park ranger was leading an environmental awareness tour for a...
April 12, 2016
We do not know the exact date when William Shakespeare was born. Our first record...
April 05, 2016
Each year the Unitarian Universalist Association selects one book as a “Common Read” that all...

March 2016

March 29, 2016
One of my favorite college classes was “Jesus and the Gospels.” Ironically, one of my...

February 2016

February 23, 2016
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963) was the first African American to earn a doctorate from...
February 17, 2016
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. In recent years, his birthday has become...
February 11, 2016
One famous definition of faith from the Christian tradition is Hebrews 11:1, “faith is the...
February 02, 2016
The comedic icon Harold Ramis died a little less than two years ago at the...

January 2016

January 18, 2016
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only thirty-nine years old when he was...
January 14, 2016
Do you know the work of the social scientist and author Tom Rath? I first heard...
January 13, 2016
One trillion, trillion, trillion years from now, the accelerating expansion of the universe will have...
January 01, 2016
A compilation of my recent “Top 10″ and “Best of” posts for 2015: Top 10 Best...

December 2015

December 31, 2015
The following are the podcasts I’ve enjoyed listening to the most consistently since this time...
December 30, 2015
This list is not necessarily my favorite new releases of the year. Instead, it is...
December 29, 2015
This list is not always my favorite new releases; instead, it is the best of...
December 28, 2015
The following are the top ten best books I’ve read since this time last year,...
December 21, 2015
Today is Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. Here in the mid-Atlantic, we will...
December 17, 2015
In the theologically conservative Protestant Christianity of my childhood, the sacred was always imagined as...
December 10, 2015
If you want to test how evolved you are as a person, the holidays often...

November 2015

November 25, 2015
I first learned about Lodro Rinzler through his Huffington Post online Buddhist advice column that...
November 19, 2015
Recent new stories have ranged from the absurd to the inane, and most recently, to...
November 05, 2015
This past Tuesday was Election Day. But overshadowing any voting this week is the countdown to...
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