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Our Faith, Our Future
With this blog, we come to the end of our series that highlights what I see as some of the challenges and opportunities that we face, my vision for this faith [...]
Continue ReadingFirst UU Church of Nashville Safety Net Petition
I support the First UU Church of Nashville Safety Net and its petition to start a national conversation on clergy [...]
Continue ReadingOff-site Delegate Participation in GA Business Meetings
Off-site delegate participation provides an alternative way for congregations to participate in the business of the Association when their delegates [...]
Continue ReadingGovernance as Leadership
As I see it, there are two primary considerations that delegates need to take into account when deciding for whom [...]
Continue ReadingPartnering with Youth and Young Adults
Justice GA in Phoenix showed dramatically the power of partnering with other groups to achieve common goals. During the preparations [...]
Continue ReadingJustice as Restoring Broken Relationships
The bombing in Boston reminded me of an idea that Joerg Rieger of Southern Methodist University has written about – [...]
Continue ReadingThe Rest of the Story
I was recently informed that the Data Services Office of the UUA inadvertently violated the UUA policies governing the election [...]
Continue ReadingTranslating Business Experience into Lay Leadership
Work has been continuous in my life since I was 9 — delivering the morning newspaper to my neighbors until [...]
Continue ReadingA Letter of Encouragement and Support
I was invited to offer words of encouragement and support to the trustees of the four district boards of the [...]
Continue ReadingA Beneficial History
Liz and I attended the Southeast District Racial Justice Conference held in Columbia, SC, March 1-2. We’ve attended many of [...]
Continue ReadingAlways a Day Away, Creating the “Good Life”
Why do we seem to be “always a day away” from achieving our potential? In previous blogs I have discussed [...]
Continue ReadingAlways a Day Away, Understanding Cultural Differences
As discussed in a previous blog, future growth of our faith seems “always a day away.” In that blog, I [...]
Continue ReadingAlways a Day Away, Offering Radical Hospitality
In the theme song from the musical, Annie, the lead sings that tomorrow is always a day away. That could [...]
Continue ReadingReason, Spirit, and Emotion
In previous blogs, I talked about Humanism and spirituality separately. But I combine both of these in a single mind [...]
Continue ReadingSpirituality and Religion
“I’m spiritual, but not religious.” How often have we heard someone say that? The Rev. Galen Guengerich, minister of All [...]
Continue ReadingMy Religous Grounding: Spirituality
In the previous blog, we looked at our Humanist roots and commented that Humanism, although not necessarily by that name [...]
Continue ReadingMy Religious Grounding: Humanism
Finding a religious movement that provided a place for Humanism made me whole after a lifetime of tolerating an incomplete [...]
Continue ReadingThanksgiving
Thanksgiving is my favorite season of the year. It puts me in a state I wish I could sustain all [...]
Continue ReadingInterview with Jim
Interviewer: You are running for one of the two highest leadership positions in the UUA, the Chief Governance Officer for [...]
Continue ReadingQuestions from the Candidates Forum
Candidate Questions (The questions that were directed to Rev. Morales or Mrs. Payne-Alex were omitted from this list. The first [...]
Continue ReadingWhat have we learned from Justice GA?
A lesson from Carlos My transformational moment in Phoenix came through a child, a boy of about nine whose name [...]
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