Prayer for a Congregation Going into Search

Today's sermon focused on my little church's big vote to give a formal charge....


Works & Hope: Why We Need Community

(This is part II of II.  Part I is here.) In my New Testament class we just....


On Money, Prayer, and SWEDOW: Responding to the Typhoon and Other Disasters

(This is part I of II.  Here is part II.) Love and compassion, guide us. Help us to be spiritually present in the recovery, even when oceans are between us. Fill our prayers with solace and hope. Help us support partner relationships with....


Repentance and (no) Reluctance: A Confession for America

In honor of Veterans' Day, I repost this blog as it highlights the prophetic....


On Kindness After Tragedy: This Can Still Happen Anywhere

I know there is talk about how, after 9/11, there was a change in this....


Open Letter to a Kindred Spirit: Why I am UU

I recently met a woman who has a storied spiritual history.  That history includes many things of which I am unaware, but a few things I do know: she lived on an ashram and often her points of reference include Hindu metaphors and guides; she recently....


True Story: Married not Once, but Twice, to a Dying Woman

This is a story of lesbians in love.  It is also one facet of the jewel story....


Approaching Newtown: Strengthening Our Universalist Impulse

Soon our nation marks the one-year anniversary of the tragedy of the Newtown....


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I used to be thrilled with thirty or forty hits on my blog.  Yes, I would be bummed if it was six or seven, but I was easily satisfied at surpassing twenty and nearly orgiastic if I exceeded fifty.   But not since Wordpress.com freshpressed one....


Circumambulating in the Autumn: Our Spiritual Practices

Unless an elder or physically disabled, one must park below and walk up a....