Category Archives: Justice

A different survival

Posted on September 17, 2019 by

Last week, Gracie, who is in 8th grade, called me from school, crying. Their class had just watched the videos from 9/11, videos that included a lot of the live footage, and the photographs that came out in the days … Continue reading →

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Progressive Christians Ruined Me (Or, Everything Changes When You Know Their Name)

Posted on May 7, 2019 by

All I could think, as I headed into my second day of the machine of Rethink Leadership and the Orange Conference (a mostly-evangelical Christian leaders gathering) was: Progressive Christians have ruined me.  Before seminary and my classmates – those brave … Continue reading →

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When We Go Together: On Fear and Courage at the Border

Posted on December 12, 2018 by

We are not afraid. We are not afraid. We will march for liberation Because we know why we were made.* As our group of interfaith leaders came nearer to the line of Border Patrol agents on Monday, all while singing … Continue reading →

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Factions We Love

Posted on November 5, 2018 by

Reading: from Resistance by Barry Lopez [Sometimes I dimly recall the days] when I felt, like many others, that my life served no purpose. Do you remember any such days? It was as though we all lived in tunnels then, … Continue reading →

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How It Might Have Gone (My Universalist Dream Ballet Version of the Brett Kavanaugh Senate Hearings)

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

I was imagining all day yesterday how it might have gone. I keep thinking of it like my Universalist-Dream-Ballet version of the horrifying/captivating Senate Hearings. That is, a version of events fueled by my most idealistic notions of redemption and reconciliation.  And, … Continue reading →

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Black Lives Matter

Posted on August 21, 2018 by

First Reading: Say it With Your Whole Black Mouth by Danez Smith  Second Reading: From Kenny Wiley’s A Unitarian Universalist Black Lives Matter Theology  Sermon: Black Lives Matter  Listen to this sermon here.   Was this a long time ago? My … Continue reading →

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Kids > Guns

Posted on August 6, 2018 by

It was 1851, and the great Unitarian minister Theodore Parker decided he needed a gun. “I have been obliged to arm myself.” He told the gathered assembly of Unitarian ministers that May.  “I have written sermons with a pistol in … Continue reading →

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