"Sexuality is who you go to bed with. Gender identity is who you to bed....

In Honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance: Reclaiming Genesis
November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance. This blog post, some of my....

Doom & the Berlin Wall
I will tell anyone who will listen: I am a doom-sayer. I regularly predict the doomiest outcome. My children have suffered under the yoke of my predilections. It has led to lots of safety precautions they found over-the-top and learning how money....

Mirror, Mirror: Cultural Misappropriation Bites Me in the Ass (Part II)
I know, Halloween is past, its candy on discount in the center aisle of the CVS....

Mirror, Mirror: Learning Humility (Part I)
Not that long ago, I was sitting in an early morning committee meeting, one of....

Bidden or Unbidden: God in the House?
God keeps popping up at my house. Which is a little strange given that we are a couple of Buddhists. It started this summer, while I was interning as a hospital chaplain, part of the process to form me as a Unitarian Universalist minister. Now, to be....

A Game of Chess: The New Jim Crow Over & Over (Part II)
As I have written about in Part I, I am currently “reading” (listening as I....

Furtive Movements: The New Jim Crow Over & Over (part I)
Maybe you were like me when the George Zimmerman trial was going on, shocked....

Forget the Blessings (poetry)
for T.C. Forget pious blessing chatter. The nice-nice that assures polite company the world still spins properly. It doesn’t. It’s off kilter. Your son is gone. All is not right in the world. Should you....

Nobody, but Nobody, Can Make It Out Here Alone (sermon)
First Parish Church of Groton, Groton, MA Karen G. Johnston, Intern....