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Hindsight is 20/20
I have never had a moment when I hit my head and exclaim, “I could’ve had a V-8.” But I have had moments when I think, ‘O I wish I had done something different than act the fool.’ The wise ones are...
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Counting the Cost: A Retelling of the Three Little Pigs
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago when pigs were able to speak there lived three little pigs who dreamed of having a home of their own. The first little pig went to his parents and said, “I think...
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“A Hearty Welcome: Removing Hetero-sexism from our Church Culture”
I was invited to offer a workshop at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Oxford in Mississippi as part of their seeking to become designated by our denomination as a Welcoming Congregation. In...
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Violence in America
Reading: “All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all...
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What’s Your Pie?
I came across a post that my friend Kat Liu wrote on Facebook. She writes: “The other day I read Huffington Post quoting someone as saying, ‘I go to church for pie.’ To be fair, I did not read the...
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Blessed
Here in the south, I often hear people say when ending a phone conversation or ending a transaction between a store employee and customer, “Have a blessed day.” In these contexts it seems hollow,...
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Worship as Respite
Worship is like a breathing spell in a long and arduous foot race, or the hour of roll call in a prolonged and hard-fought battle: — it is altogether indispensable to sane and wholesome living— it is...
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HB 57: How to Shut Down a Woman’s Right to Choose
I attended the public hearing on AL HB 57 having the the misnomer of being called the “Women’s Health and Safety Act.” I had a chance to speak to this bill. Here is what I said: Let’s be honest about...
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Reproductive Rights: The Right to Choose
Reproductive rights in Alabama is heating up this year with several bills being presented before the legislature in Montgomery. Whose right is it to determine what happens in one’s body? HB108: The...
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HB360: Asks Medical Profession to Ignore Science
The state legislature of Alabama has introduced HB 360 which would amend a previous act regarding abortion with new conditions and new terms. First it adds a phrase to the definition of abortion which...
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Green Blade Rises
The hymn Now the Green Blade Riseth sung beautifully this morning loosely refers to the Christian texts in Mark 4: The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full...
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Justice as a Spiritual Practice
This past week was a difficult one for me. Watching the state house accepting lies as facts in their passing HB 57 shutting down a women’s ability to have dominion over the fate of her body by...
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The Moral Argument
A few weeks back Utah state senator Stuart Reid defended his vote against the anti-discrimination act protecting employment and housing rights of people of gender and sexual diversities. He stated he...
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Welcoming Tsarnaev home
People are quite adamant that the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev not be given a burial ground. Even people within my faith community are questioning why any Unitarian Universalist might offer a grave site...
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School of America’s Watch Delegation
I will be posting my experiences of the School of America’s Delegation this week along the Militarized border of Arizona and Nogales. A brief introduction: School of America’s Watch is a non-profit...
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Isabel Garcia: Not About Papers
This morning the SOAWatch delegation met with Isabel Garcia, Coalicion de Dereche Humanas (Coalition of Human Rights) and attorney here in Tucson. This is a summary of her talk. THere is a broader...
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Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part 1
In the afternoon the SOAWatch Delegation went to Southside Presbyterian Church to hear Rev. John Fife, past minister of this congregation and Stephanie and Alejandro of the Southside Day Labor Center,...
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Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part II
In 2009 there were some anecdotal stories surfacing of water bottles being vandalized and border patrol agents shooting holes in the bottles. THe government stated this was not true and it was all...
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Operation Streamline: An American Obscenity
I am not sure I can even begin to describe this obscene method of handling border crossings. Understand the militarization of the border was to prevent the crossing of terrorists into the USA. Since...
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Casa Mariposa: Solace for the spirit
THere is in the midst of the pain and desparation that migrants face a place where migrants can receive solace for their spirits. Casa Mariposa is an intentional religious community made up of a...
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