A Minister's Musings

One of the things that's so exciting to me about the Internet--and I'm really still such a neophyte when it comes to these things--...

For the past couple of weeks I've been using a "breath prayer" (one of those short, two line prayers you recite giving one lin...

I've been away from the blogosphere for a while and am returning with a newly developing focus. I once knew an artist named Deborah Jone...

Kurt Vonnegut died on Wednesday. I haven't read a Vonnegut novel in years, but upon hearing of his death I picked up Cat's Cradle ...

I have not been as excited since . . . I don't know . . . the last time I was this excited! Last night, while doing research for an upco...

I'm a sucker for a subtitle. Over the past couple of months I've come across two books with truly wonderful subtitles and, even more...

I'll admit it. I still read comic books. Mostly I keep up with the Dark Knight--a.k.a., the Batman--and his compatriots in the DC Comic...

Yesterday I wrote about the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Second Life. It turns out that I'm not the only one. (No surprise t...

It seems that almost everywhere I turn these days I'm hearing about Second Life --the virtual "universe" that is taking our ...

I sometimes--actually, with a fair bit of regularity--run across a story that reminds me how truly wonderful this life is. It's so easy...

As a follow up to my most recent posting I want to give you a couple of other links about the Angel del Basuero--the Angel of the Garbage Du...

Hanley Denning, a young woman from Yarmouth, Maine, went to Antigua to learn Spanish. What she found there was the poverty and the pain of ...

There are some wonderful benefits to having children. Lots of them, actually, but yesterday I was appreciatin g one in particular--the chanc...

I'm preparing my sermon for the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend and so am considering the state of race in America today. On the one ha...

A member of the congregation I serve in Brewster, MA suggested that we create buttons that read: "What God has joined together let no o...

The deposed leader of Iraq Saddam Hussein has been hanged before the eyes of the world--quite literally, because of a leaked videotape of th...

I recently moved to Massachusetts, proud to be living in the first state in Union to recognize that there is no legal impediment to two peop...

It has been said by some that God created the world in six days, completing the task and resting on the seventh. One week, and all that is w...

Sometimes we human beings are capable of the most sublime vision. Think of the image of one person dancing alone. Now add a partner. Now two...

The United States Senate recently passed a resolution declaring English to be our "national language." Some people were surprised...