Paying Homage in Selma: Unitarian Universalist Civil Rights Martyrs

Speechless (or wordless) doesn’t work particularly well for poets or....


They Are All Honored Here: Nothing Is Lost

Better poets and theologians have made their offerings. Who am I to....


Beyond Apocalypse: Cultivating Eco-Resilience

Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham April 10, 2022 Reverend Karen G. Johnston, Guest Minister If I can't save usthen let me feel youhappy and safeunder my chin.If this will drownor burnthen let us drink starlightnap under treessing....


Visiting Morganza

(this post is the second of a two-part report on my visit to Morganza; the....


A Trip to Avery Island

When I was a kid, I had such a hankering for salt that I would steal my....


Angels In Our Midst

How might we surrender to our place in the vast cosmos, the strange mix that does not reveal the depths and breadths of its true nature to mere mortals such as we are, yet begs us choose to see angels and generosity, beloveds in the midst of the....


Map Overlay

(this is the first of a two-part report on my visit to Morganza; the....


Its Own Time

Serving as a congregational minister, most of the time I must prepare a....


Visiting the Whitney Plantation, part two

All over the plantation, there are artifacts and there is art. the kitchen building where enslaved people, typically women and children, worked Artifacts include whole buildings, some from this particular plantation, some preserved and brought....


Visiting the Whitney Plantation (part one)

Leaving New Orleans this morning, I spent several hours today at the....