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October 2015

October 30, 2015
I first heard Margot Adler’s voice on the radio — along with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Lakshmi...
October 12, 2015
In August, the County Council where I live voted by a slim 4-to-3 margin to repeal...
October 08, 2015
I try to post about Islam from time to time for at least two reasons. First,...
October 01, 2015
The singer-songwriter Peter Mayer’s tune, “Do You Really Want to Know” traces two monumental paradigm...

September 2015

September 24, 2015
In the book Learning to Be White, the Unitarian Universalist minister and scholar Thandeka writes that, “No one...
September 17, 2015
Our human population has septupled (increased sevenfold) in a mere two centuries — from approximately 1 billion...
September 10, 2015
My previous post on "Celebrating Mixed Religion: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love...
September 01, 2015
The summer after my freshman year in college, Sarah McLachlan released her album Surfacing. Among...

August 2015

August 26, 2015
Editor's Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith...
August 25, 2015
In 1950, the activist Audre Lorde wrote a poem titled “Memorial I,” which includes these...
August 20, 2015
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA...
August 18, 2015
What stood out to me most from reading Megan Marshall's The Peabody Sisters (a finalist for the 2006...
August 13, 2015
There was an article in a recent issue of The New York Times Magazine titled...
August 11, 2015
This past Sunday was the 70th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on...
August 06, 2015
One way of classifying the various methods of self-improvement that one can pursue is to...
August 06, 2015
The new album from the singer-songwriter Jason Isbell includes a song with the lyrics “Are...

July 2015

July 22, 2015
Peter Rollins in his book The Divine Magician tells the following "Parable of a Fisherman...

June 2015

June 26, 2015
Dr. Cornel West (1953-), the provocative activist, public intellectual, and professor at Union Theological Seminary in...
June 09, 2015
When I think about forgiveness, one experience that comes to mind is from when I...
June 02, 2015
Each year the Unitarian Universalist Association chooses one book as a “Common Read,” and encourages...

May 2015

May 27, 2015
Ken Wilber (1949-) is a contemporary American philosopher who has written a host of books...

April 2015

April 22, 2015
Before the 16th-century Scientific Revolution, it used to be more reasonable to hold the worldview...
April 07, 2015
Some of you may remember the controversy in the late 1980s when the film director...

March 2015

March 31, 2015
In progressive religious circles, you will often hear calls to “build the Beloved Community,” but I’m...
March 19, 2015
“[I invite you to] imagine you are in Boston some summer Sunday morning in the...
March 13, 2015
After Copernicus, we know that Earth is not at the center of the universe. Our...
March 09, 2015
I have posted previously on “Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall: Claiming Our Social Justice Story” in which...
March 05, 2015
The Jewish tradition, with its tremendous respect for all we have inherited from previous  generations,...

February 2015

February 18, 2015
Lent (the forty-day period of preparation for Easter Sunday) has a bad reputation in some...

January 2015

January 28, 2015
The future free-thinking minister-scientist Joseph Priestley was born in 1733 to a strict Calvinist family, but by his early...
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