This month’s theme is “transformation,” and as I sat to write I found myself curious about the difference between change and transformation.  The word change means, “to make or become different,” and it comes from the Old French changier, which means essentially the same thing.  Transformation is defined as, “a...

This is the text of a Letter to the Editor that I’ve submitted to the Daily Progress: Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning entry into the United States of “immigrants and nonimmigrants” from seven majority-Muslim countries is nothing more than he had promised he would do, and nothing less than...

During the Presidential campaign, then candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the country.  To be “fair,” he has defended his ban as simply being a precautionary measure of banning for 90 days entry into the United States travelers from seven specific countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya,...

In The Wizard of Earthsea wizard Ged inadvertently lets loose on the world a great evil.  He tries to undo his mistake, but the evil is too powerful for him.  And then it begins to chase him.  To hunt him.  And as Ged flees, his pursuer grows more powerful.  Eventually,...

The situation of Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy and his tweets continues to be a rather heated topic of conversation for people in the wider community and, I know, among some within ours.  It is a situation which would appear to put different values at odds with one another.  There are those...

We’re continuing our ongoing exploration of what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist, this month asking, “What does it mean to be a people of presence?”  Not surprising, perhaps, the word “presence” has a few different meanings.  Interestingly, two of them appear to be contradictions! You can speak about...

I recently heard the idea that there is about a three to four week window of time during which the white left will be highly motivated.  Although people of color have been telling us for decades about the country we live in, Donald Trump’s victory shocked and stunned a lot...

I went to bed early last night, fully confident that what has happened couldn’t possibly happen.  But it did.  And now we — as individuals and as a nation — have to live with it. For many of us, this outcome has been inconceivable.  We never truly imagined that it...

I. It’s not possible, I said, When I heard the news Of the White Police Officer Shooting The Unarmed Black Man Whose arms were raised And whose back was turned. It’s not possible. It must have been a mistake. It’s not possible, I said, When I it happened again. It...

It has been a long, grueling Presidential campaign.  I often think of how much worse it is for the candidates who are running than for those of us in the bleachers watching.  This time, though, I gotta say that it’s been pretty hard on us in the stands, too.  And...