I had the great opportunity to present this poem as part of the arts and culture initiative at the Equity Summit 2015 in Los Angeles this week. What an amazing experience to be part of this gathering of people who are changing the world through policy and practice that promote equity! This poem was the opening […]
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Mega Church
Conversations About Masculinity – Real ‘church’ is for Men
I am a regular church goer. A few years ago when I started to get serious about my commitment to becoming a Unitarian Universalist minister, I figured that a more frequent appearance than Christmas Eve was probably a good idea. Going to church is not a big stretch for me. I come from a fairly […]
Happy Birthday

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a pivotal day in the history of the Civil Rights movement in America. Although it had been conceived before (reference is made in the film Brother Outsider to a plan in the 1940’s for a march of this nature) it […]
Colonial Fool: Part IV – The REAL war on Religion
Sam Rohrer, president of the Pennsylvania Pastors’ Network, stated that he was “stunned at [the decisions on DOMA and Prop 8] today to take a 360-degree turn away from the biblical definition of marriage.…we must continue to work to keep marriages and families intact, the way God intended them, and pray for a continued revival […]
Colonial Fool Part III: The Common Good
“The Common Good” is the first of two sermons being debuted at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento this summer, June 23 & August 4. I decided to post this sermon partly in response to the irrational and misguided ignorance of the United States Supreme Court in their decision to gut the Voting Rights Act. […]