There is certainly grave reason to be worried about the current state-of-affairs in our world, from the rise of authoritarian governments to the devastating impacts of global warming, but there … Continue reading The Best of Times. The Worst of Times: Keeping Hope and Making Progress Today

Why should imaginary borders be considered sovereign, protecting the right of different regimes to govern their territories, especially those that regularly violate the human rights of their own citizens? In … Continue reading The Sovereignty of Persons: Better Borders for a Bigger World

Under Current Immigration Policy, churches are unlikely to be raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), making them safe places for those seeking to avoid deportation. This is why the … Continue reading Making Room at the Inn: The Sanctuary Movement Today and What It Means for our Church

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