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• What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day (A Question for the UUA Presidential...

  (this is the first of three questions that I will pose to the candidates. if you aren't interested in UUA politics, check back in about a... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Thinking About A #BlackLivesMatter Mother’s Day Worship Service

  In these waning minutes on Sunday, I'm going to take a few of those minutes to write out something that has come to me in the last week or so. Mother's Day is... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Someday We’ll All Be Free…But That Day Ain’t Today (Ferguson, Unitarian...

  I. Can't. Even. I was going to respond directly to Rev. Don Southworth, but after a good night's sleep I decided that I have already talked enough about... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Canons We Have (yes…more Unitarian Universalism)

  (I think this is the start of a series on worship, but I don't know) I'm on a Du Bois kick right now. I cannot tell you how STUNNED I was when I finally... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I May Put You Down…But I’ll Never Let You Down (Safety/Security and Things UU)

  I have to own a couple of things before I start. I am a native St. Louisian (and still spend part of the year there). I was in St. Louis when Michael Brown was... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Playing Mammie to Miss Scarlett (POC, White Fragility, and Unitarian...

  I'm probably going to shock you with what I'm fixin' to say. My favorite movie is Gone With the Wind. You must understand...I can deconstruct that movie... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired (A Question About All That is Going on...

  Former UUA President Rev. Peter Morales is quoted in the UU World as saying, "I also understand we live in a time where for people of color and a number of... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Past Is Not Dead. It Isn’t Even Past. …A Question for the UUA Presidential...

  Susan. Allison. Jeanne. It was good to see the three of you in New Orleans. I appreciate the time you got to spend with us at the BLUU Convening. Even more, I a... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, But Nothing Can Be Changed Until...

  "People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocenc... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Denialism Pt. 1

  Happy Black History Month! Normally I write during BHM, but this has been the strangest BHM I've ever lived through so I'm not feeling steady in my thoughts. An... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Charleston and Its Aftermath on Election Day

  Yesterday was the first day of jury selection in the trial of Dylan Roof. You remember him, don't you? He's the one who killed 9 church people at Mother... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Shallow Diversity Is Not Diversity At All

  One of the things you learn when you hang out with religious professionals is that no matter the religious affiliation, denomination, or theological stripe of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Race, Theology, Sociology, and History Reading Group (#BlackLivesMatter)

  With all that's been going on, I'm feeling the need to read (and in some cases re-read) a lot of books related to race and its intersections with theology,... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Were Y’all Always This Clueless? Or Is This Willful Ignorance?

  On Monday night, Michelle Obama gave her speech at the Democratic National Convention. I didn't watch the speech, as I am not watching the convention. But I... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can People of Color Truly Be Safe in UU Congregations?

  There was a memorial service for someone I knew at a UU congregation last Sunday. I knew the officiant for the service, and had emailed them earlier to let... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I’ll Skip the “National Conversation on Race.” I Have Better Things to Do....

  In every interview I've seen with her, the FIRST question Philando Castile's mother gets asked is about Dallas. Nobody in Dallas gets asked about Philando... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Hagar. A Meditation on the Past 28 Hours...

  Are you there God? It's me, Hagar. Wasn't it enough that Sarai gave me to Abram so he could have a child? That when I tried to get away YOU told me to go... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• UUs…We Don’t Need Another “National Conversation On Race”

  So the Commission on Social Witness announced that one of the four proposed Congregational Study/Action Issues that will be voted on at General Assembly in... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Flint Is Being Lead Poisoned. Has the UUA Reached Out to the UUs In Flint?

  A man-made disaster is occurring in Flint, Michigan. The people of that city are being lead poisoned because of a decision made to switch where Flint got its... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Black People Were Told Today–Holy Innocents Day (#BlackLivesMatter)

  Just a few minutes ago, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty announced the Grand Jury's no-true-bill in the case of Tamir Rice. Today is also Holy Innocents... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY