Despite the puritanical approach to morality so often demonstrated in our society, ethics is a complicated subject and determining what’s best to do is seldom simple. Nevertheless, given what’s passing … Continue reading Dumbing it Down: A Little Black and White Thinking to Make Understanding Ethics Easy

We call ourselves “human beings,” but, given certain biological and psychological realities, perhaps it would be more accurate to consider ourselves, “human becomings.” Nature has made ours an unusual species … Continue reading Becoming Human: The Animal that Never Stops Growing

We tend to think of fascism and groupthink coming from the far Right, but today an increasing number of those professing Liberal values are working to silence others with whom … Continue reading Chilled: PC, Misappropriation, Microaggressions, and Other Forms of Neo-Fascism

The distinction between male and female may seem an obvious one, but the genetic, hormonal, gonadal, and psychological qualities that determine our sense of gender are not as defined as … Continue reading The Gender Myth: Exploring the Blurry Line Between Male and Female

One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is how I went from being a Southern Baptist to becoming a Unitarian Universalist? As theologically different as these two faiths are, … Continue reading A Unitarian with a Dash of Baptist

Society most often teaches us what to think, but seldom how to think. Adopting the dialectic method of philosophers like Heraclitus, Socrates, and Hegel is a simple, easy to learn … Continue reading Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Street: Using the Dialectic Method in Everyday Life

Happy’s Good Friday: A Unitarian Universalist Minister’s Reflection on Jesus’ Crucifixion A few days before Good Friday, my dear friend, the Reverend Happy Watkins of the New Hope Baptist Church … Continue reading Happy’s Good Friday: A Unitarian Universalist Minister’s Reflection on Jesus’ Crucifixion

This will be a special service exploring Creation Spirituality through the life and songs of Mother Nature’s son, John Denver. It will, of course, feature several live performances from church and local musicians and singers.

The cryptic title of this message says it all. We die. It’s as much a part of life as the air we breathe and the water we drink. Yet our culture leads us to largely ignore this inevitability which often leads to financial ruin in our final days, but also to a lifetime of anxiety and clinging to ways, ideas, and things we can’t keep. What would life be like if we all embraced our mortality to better appreciate this brief opportunity to enjoy, to love, to care, and to let go?

More than 200 years ago, Universalism’s founder, John Murray challenged us to go everywhere, into the highways and byways, to let our light shine by offering, “not hell, but hope.” Isn’t it about time we did?