Spirit

Crane your neck. Worm your way. Wolf it down. Monkey with things. Outfox your foe. Quit badgering your tax attorney.

One of them is a mythical creature worth believing in.

The only really upsetting thing about being old is realizing that I’m not going to see how everything comes out.

I knew the gunman who killed two in a Knoxville church, but I don’t need an explanation for his actions. I need stories of heroes and kindness and compassion.

Words of grief and consolation after a deadly attack on the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville.

Jesus died and decomposed, and yet he was right: The divine unity is beyond all final death.

People keep secrets for all kinds of reasons, even Unitarian Universalists.

Finding my path when the choices I made in my twenties didn’t work out.

Your heart will be worn and joyous, wise and beat up, and full of sorrow and amazement.

Love the gift of your life and do no harm.

Facing cancer with lessons learned from my parishioners.

Only after the funeral did Brother Dick ask, ‘And what church did you say you attend?’