If revamping Social Security is the deadly “third rail” of politics, asking for the focus of Christianity to move from the idea of “fall and redemption” to a more positive way of thinking about God and our faith, is apparently the theological “third rail.” The
Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Second Sunday after Epiphany: For the Lord delights in you. (Isaiah 62:1-5) You have kept the good wine until now. (John 2:1-11) Peter Mayer is a singer-songwriter from Minnesota. He is not to be confused with another musician
I couldn’t even see my hand in front of my face, it was so dark. My partner and I were standing deep inside the bowels of a mountain in Montana. One of the excursions we had taken on this day of our vacation was to
A new Pentecost The time has come to let the fundamentalists have the church. So says Rev. Matthew Fox in his new book A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity, where he presents his own 95 theses in the tradition of Martin
Stranger in a strange land John Shelby Spong, the controversial Episcopal bishop who writes such provocatively titled books as Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speakers to Believers in Exile and Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture,
Coming home from the hospital, it was still several months before I could return to work. I had been temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, due to a neurological disease called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. After undergoing physical therapy to learn to walk again, I hobbled around
“The difference between persons and groups of persons is not that some are victims and some are not: we are all victims and all dying from lack of compassion; we are all surrendering our humanity together.” (Matthew Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness
“God Hates Fags!” “Matthew Shephard is Burning in Hell!” “No Tears for Queers!” Those were just some of the signs being held aloft by the protesters at this year’s Gay Pride Parade in Atlanta. The protesters had come all the way to Atlanta from their
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Shreveport, La. Disclaimer: Before I start, I want to make a few brief disclaimers. Our church (like other UU churches) has a tradition of a free and open pulpit. In other words, my search for truth and the words I