Let me begin by setting aside my skepticism, my sarcasm, my doubt, my....
Prayer on the 50th Anniversary of Selma
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Winning His Battle with Brain Cancer: A Good Man Has Died
[caption id="attachment_3459" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Mark Green[/caption] Yesterday, my friend Mark Green died. We knew each other in college. In our first year, we narrowly avoided a one-night stand without loss of dignity or....
Reading Life Into Failing Bodies: The Chaplaincy of Eros and Thanatos
A third of my summer chaplaincy internship was spent at a nursing home. It was....
Choosing Open Eyes (sermon)
This sermon was delivered on February 22, 2015 at First Parish Church of....
Memento Mori (poem – video)
If all you do with this post is spend 4:15 minutes watching this clip, that is enough. But there is a bit of (con)text below... [youtube=http://youtu.be/4eAgUx508hg] Memento Mori is a Latin term. It has multiple translations, all approaching a....
Making Love in Public: Blogging on #SexUUality
Unitarian Universalists have a long history of courage in tackling issues....
Middle of the Night Miracles
Our bodies are deeply miraculous. And, of course, deeply bound by a natural....
What is the Hokey Pokey All About?
When I was a social worker/home visitor and got paid for playing with toddlers, I worked in a community that was predominantly Spanish-speaking. This means that I learned a couple of songs in Spanish that are typically sung in Puerto Rican families (at....
Abundance Scooped from Abundance: Reflections on Myanmar
homily delivered today at First Parish Church of Groton There is a line from....