Reminder: Hold My Chalice will be on a three-week hiatus while I engage the first part of my dissertation project, attend the AUUMM (UU musicians) conference, and spend a few days of vacation time taking in art with a dear friend. The column returns on August 12. I don&
It's no longer on my annual watch list, but sometimes nothing will scratch the silly British comedy nostalgia itch like the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail - which I watched last night. Subscribe now! Well, I watched some of it, because I got through this scene, and
I want to start by acknowledging the deep pain felt by our trans and intersex siblings after the hard Supreme Court decision about school athletics and equal access. I mourn with you. It breaks my heart that once again a decision like this has been made that is based in
One feature of the UUA's General Assembly is the Ware Lecture, a discourse offered by someone outside our faith (although there have been some insiders in the early history of the Lecture), who bring information, a perspective, a call to us. We've heard from people like
A friendly reminder that there will be no post next week to make space to attend the UUA's week of Professional/Ministry Days and General Assembly. Hold My Chalice will return on June 24th. One of my favorite services of the year is one I typically do toward
(resending with corrected text - apologies!) I've been thinking a lot lately about loyalty, kindness and the death of relationships. You know, light, airy thoughts. My thoughts started while ago as I thought about the sheer volume of stories I hear about good friends in congregations that turned into
(resending with corrected text - apologies!) I've been thinking a lot lately about loyalty, kindness and the death of relationships. You know, light, airy thoughts. My thoughts started while ago as I thought about the sheer volume of stories I hear about good friends in congregations that turned into
It's annual meeting season again, and a colleague told me Friday that she shared the post below with her congregation when it first came out, and planned to share it again that day. If you shared it before and want to share it again, you need a new
I recently saw a YouTube clip titled "The Restaurant That Became the Best by Mastering Hospitality" where the speaker talked about the NYC restaurant Eleven Madison Park and how they learned not to mimic great things other restaurants were doing, but rather to look at what they did
There is a logical fallacy called 'argument from ignorance' that is best defined as "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Variations exist - the black swan fallacy, for example, is when you assert something like "all swans are white" because you've
One conversation about a thing is just a conversation. A second one that week is a curiosity. A third one tells me it's time to write about it. It's hard to say why, but the thing this past week has been the question of why a
On Monday, I had the long-overdue opportunity to spend a day with my friend and colleague, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair. We talked about everything while we drove around town, shopped, and relaxed - and not surprisingly, we fell back into our habit of discussing deep questions of theology, governance, and