When I preached on the Sunday a week after Mike Brown was murdered in Ferguson,....
Let's not Just Make Noise, Let's Make a Difference: On the Night of No Indictment of Darren Wilson
I am supposed to be moved to write something, or say something, or craft some response to the news from Ferguson, Missouri. Something deep or inspiring. Instead, I am stunned. And sad. Existentially fretful. Deeply discouraged. I have nothing new....
The Gender Spectrum: A Workshop, A Blogpost, A Poem
"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....