Can we please stop branding what white Unitarian Universalists do in an effort to be anti-racist as “the work”? I recently made reference to this language in a sermon delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville, Virginia, so I feel like some explanation might be in order. Throughout my…

“A Unitarian Universalist can believe anything.” — Michelle Huneven interviewed by Scott Simon for NPR (April 23, 2022) When a dear and trusted friend of mine recently reached out to me and excitedly told me that I needed to read the book Search by Michelle Huneven, I winced at first…

Several years ago, while working with the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color through PolicyLink in Oakland, California, I had a front row seat to the inner workings of one of the most exciting times in California politics. This meant that I got…

SOMETIME in the early 1990s I wrote the outline for a musical. I was still entertaining the idea of being the next Cole Porter/Stephen Sondheim and made it a regular habit to fully think through the concept, major plot points and even sketch out some of the numbers for the…

If the Republican Party is any indication of the state of things within the conservative movement, there are some real problems for folks on the other side of the cultural aisle. The most cohesive position that folks on the “right” seem to be able to take is in opposition to…

Several years ago I basically dropped off of social media. I needed to do this for my sanity. I had entered into parish ministry and although I’ve long been an advocate of ministers engaging in social media, I found that the algorithms that allow social media to be such a…

I went to bed last night eager to get up this morning to write this post. I was excited because with the approaching 10 year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, I realized that it would be extremely important for me to put a message about embodiment in the context…

Several years ago, I published a blog, “ Rev. Prep” as my personal, public statement affirming that one can be religious and gay and sexual and engaged in promoting safer sex. Although I use a different medication now (Descovy), I am still on and committed to PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis i.e…

“Liberty is not liberty when it functions at the expense of equity.” Liberty is not liberty when it functions at the expense of equity. This is the basic premise of my research. My field is ethics with a specific focus on how religion and equity interact with individuals and society…