Some of you were in church this past Sunday and learned more about gender identity and equity. Gender identity is the preferred expression of an individual regardless of their biological sex or sexual orientation. Those who are not binary in their identity often express themselves in a pronoun that is neither male nor female. One […]

Should We Always Take the Risk? This question was on the long list of questions the ministers were asked in November and I think this is a good time to tackle an answer. Any decision to take a risk depends on what is at stake. Generally, I live by the Yogi Berra wisdom that “if […]

How do we make sense of Suffering? The Buddha was right, all of us suffer, although not all life is suffering. Progressive faiths such as ours haven’t done a very good job reconciling suffering with our sunny view of life. As the poet Christian Wiman puts it: “Suffering is simply something to avoid thinking about […]

Why are humans here on this earth? In the midst of all of our political dysfunction, I have been considering the larger picture of why we are here on this planet at all. Given Earth’s natural tendency to extinguish most forms of life every eon or so, as a species we should be worried. Our […]