When people find out that I am Unitarian Universalist, the question I get asked most often (aside from “why the confusing name?”) is “Unitarian Universalist? What the heck is Unitarian Universalist?” To which, my immediate answer is always: “Thanks for asking! Do you want the long answer? Or the longer…
I am guest posting today over at Faith Beyond Belief, a website devoted to establishing a broader perspective about religious belief and nonbelief in order to live more authentically. The post encourages us to put our creative minds to work in order to move beyond outdated definitions and to…
I had the following article published here at the Huffington Post earlier this week. While the specifics of the post might not be applicable to everyone, I think the article highlights just how tricky this parenting thing can be and that there are often no easy answers to our kids’…
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Unless you haven’t listened to the news, opened a newspaper, or surfed the web in the past week, you probably heard that there was…
As many of us commemorate the Easter holiday this weekend with secular traditions and/or religious rites, let us a consider a different perspective. Let us consider the perspective of grieving mother, a pragmatic believer, a faithful realist. I first heard the poem “Mary” by Philip Appleman at church during the…
Just days ago, the Maryland Senate approved a marriage equality bill that would allow the state to issue marriage licenses to all couples otherwise legally permitted to marry, regardless of the sex of the individuals involved. Now that the bill has successfully moved through the state legislature, it moves on…