3 Lessons Dr. James Cone and Black Liberation Theology Have to Teach Unitarian Universalism

Dr. James Hal Cone was a deeply spiritual warrior filled with revolutionary love. He taught me what it meant to be a theologian. I will miss his mentorship dearly. Rest in…

“Love does no wrong to a neighbor, therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.”

Faith, Hope, Love, and Humanism

Chances are you know 1 Corinthians 13:13 even if you don’t know you know it. Here it is, in…

A Few Rungs on the Ladder of Love

Plato wrote of his teacher Socrates who was taken by a metaphor: the Ladder of Love. On the bottom…

Spark of Life!

Where’s your spark, friends? What is it that makes you come alive beyond the daily…

Doin’ It Like Church

One of the core insights of the Unitarian ministers who adopted Humanism in the early twentieth century is that they could…

Gods, Guns, and Gut Emotions

“Thoughts and prayers” is fast becoming the “let them eat cake” of our era. Even those who believe that…

What Order is Your Order In?

Dr. Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History and Divinity at Yale…

Punishment

There are a lot of ways to look at the US epidemic of gun violence. You can quite legitimately see it as an issue of gun control, of toxic…