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...

There have been both contentious and contentious elections before.  U.S. history is full of very nasty campaigns.  During the campaign of 1870, a prominent supporter of the incumbent, John Adams, said that if Thomas Jefferson were to be elected, “we would see our wives and daughters the victims of legal...

Here’s a catchy title for you:  A Platform of Church Discipline Gathered Out of the Word of God and Agreed Upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches Assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England.  Kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?  Trippingly, as my mom used to...

I was once advised that asking someone “why” — as in “why did you do that?” or “why do you think that way?” — tends to make people feel defensive.  It’s better, then, to ask, “Can you help me to understand … ?”  Most people, after all, respond positively to...