To Bigotry No Sanction George Washington was a big man, and the larger-than-life awe in which he was held by contemporaries may have been due to his gargantuan stature. At a time when the average American male was just five feet six inches in height, Washington was...
What Is Marriage For? I'm not sure how many weddings I've done over the course of my career, but it has to be hundreds. Sometimes in June or August I'll preside at two or three in the course of a single weekend. So naturally I don't remember each and every...
A Free Faith This faith of ours, Unitarian Universalism, has a history very much tied up with the history of our country. And when I search for a single sentence to define our faith, who we are and what it is we stand for, I say that ours is the democratic...
Meet Joseph Campbell
Reading: (Excerpted from "The Marketing of Liberal Religion", a paper presented by Rev. David Bumbaugh at Meadville-Lombard Theological School Convocation Address, January 8, 2009.) A couple of years ago David Bumbaugh, a professor and mentor of mine...
Jesus: The Man and the Myth...
A Lover's Quarrel With The World Near the end of his life, Robert Frost said that his only ambition had been "to write a few little poems it'd be hard to get rid of." And it's hard to think of any poet whose lines are harder to dislodge from people's minds. He was a...
Occupy Your Faith This generation's Civil Rights movement may have started on September 17, when several hundred demonstrators converged on New York's Zucotti Square to Occupy Wall Street. At first, they were ignored by the press, a mostly younger crowd of...
The Zen of Unitarianism What does it mean to be a Unitarian Universalist? To find the answer, taste a strawberry ripened in the sun, or look into a newborn baby's eyes, or listen to what the bluejay says to the mountain. If they can't tell you, nobody can....