A Minister's Musings

Ten years ago Teacher,Guide, Companion:  rediscovering Jesus ina secular age came out.   It was my first book, and my first collabor...

"It's hard to have conviction in a relativistic culture." That phrase has been rattling around in my head for the past sever...

In the congregation I serve -- the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church - Unitarian Universalist in Charlottesville, VA -- I hold a drop-in d...

In the UUA's new curriculum The Wi$dom Path:  money, spirit and life , there is an interesting graphic.  It's called "The Ful...

(c) 2004 The Center for Economic and Social Justice The fourth of the Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism , as articulated by the Ven....

So… Here's a question I've been dancing with lately: Who needs us? Who needs Unitarian Universalism? There are several things I don...

As I was walking in to the hospital this morning to visit a parishioner, my mind flashed back to a moment during the early years of my fir...

"Freely following Jesus."  That's the motto of the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship .  But what does it mean?  What...

Yesterday I co-facilitated a service at the congregation I serve in Charlottesville that was entitled, "God is Dead, Allelujia!  (th...

Yesterday, Easter Sunday, I posted this as a FaceBook status update: "The importance of the empty tomb, I think, is not just that ...

Recently someone I respect re-posted what I can only call a rant on her Facebook page. After commenting on the ways the religion he grew ...