Reading: Excerpt from Introduction to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman “This....

Summer of Solid Rocks
The summer after my first “marriage” ended has a name. I use quotation marks around the word marriage (and later for the word divorce) not because the relationship wasn’t real or committed. It was. The quotations are there to reflect the....

Buddhist Voices in Unitarian Universalism: A Book Review
Over the New Year, I attended my first ten-day silent retreat at Insight....

The Beating Beneath My Heart: A Geode of a Chapel Amid the Ruins of Disiodenberg
“A chapel is where you can hear something beating below your heart.” Pico....

Everybody Loves a Good Ending (of the World) (sermon)
Everybody Loves a Good Ending (of the World) audio version: click here. Above is a link to my first attempt to audio record and post my sermons. Please forgive clumsiness as I learn. Below is the prepared sermon, which is mostly what is on the....

Prayer After This Verdict: Trayvon Martin
We hold Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin in our hearts, mother and father of....

Malala Day and a Visit to St. Mungo's
Today is Malala Day at the UN. Today is Malala Yousafzai’s 16th....

My Gay Boyfriend: Traveling with David
I was laughing so hard, I almost peed my pants. Which would have been bad enough, but I was traveling on a train in a foreign country and people were looking at me. He had to stop being so funny! It’s so like my gay boyfriend: turning on the charm....

Reflections on Immigration as a Moral Issue
I have just returned from several weeks in Europe (lucky me, I know). Not....