The current “debates” about gender identity and reproductive freedom are about power, control, and culture – but they are also about theology. Questions about life, time, fate, God’s role, and the like are also at stake here. I’ll explain why my theology supports … read more.
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We celebrate Easter. There will be traditions: a Unitarian Communion (optional and open-table, as always), an Easter Egg hunt for the kids (let Lindsay know asap if you can help). And I will reflect on what this holiday tells us … read more.
“The Zone of Productive Disequilibrium.” “Get on the Balcony.” “Technical Problems and Adaptive Challenges.” “Work Avoidance.” These jargony phrases sound like corporate consultant speak – and yet, the theory of Adaptive Leadership has changed my ministry and my life. It is … read more.
The “father of liberal theology,” Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), argued that religion begins not with creed, doctrine, text, or tradition but with feeling. In particular, the feeling of absolute dependence (or the absolute feeling of dependence, depending on your translation). We’ll explore vulnerability by … read more.
The first time I learned about the IDI, I thought, “hmm, okay.” But when I really learned about it, it shifted the whole way I think about racism and anti-racism. As we begin a month on “vulnerability”, we explore what it means to … read more.
The Unitarian Universalist Association is proposing to change “Article 2”, where we articulate who we are and what we are about. They are placing at the center of this statement “love,” which we here have named as the spirit of our church. What … read more.
Self-love often is a cliché or an excuse for stuck-ness. But it doesn’t have to be, and indeed, it needs to be powerful and strong. How do we learn to love ourselves in a way that is deep, real, honest, and sacred?
We will play … read more.
We will begin our month on the theme of “love” with another service focused on 10 big ideas I’ve learned in the last 15 years. I have found the pop-theory of “love languages” to be a gift in understanding myself and others. We … read more.
Whether it is Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, forwarded email or Cable News, so much of how we engage with the news of the world is designed to keep us on the “outrage treadmill.” Everything seems broken and terrible. Yet, historians and political scientists argue that we … read more.
In his letter from Birmingham Jail, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., outlined three steps to make social change. The third step, which he called “self-purification”, is very important but often skipped – then and now. We’ll look at how we ground our work for justice so … read more.
