Susan Katz Miller answers questions for interfaith families

Susan Katz Miller is a former Newsweek reporter and former US correspondent for New Scientist. She blogs on interfaith families for the Huffington Post and OnBeingBoth.com. She lives in the Washington

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Americans In the Line To Get Into Heaven

    I have this vision of being on line to get into Heaven. An angel is standing at the gate. She says, “Do you recognize this?” And she holds up one of those little yellow plastic corn cobs with … Co

Mind of the Minister

Anti-Pagan Wikipedia Editor Outed by Salon.com

In November of 2012 an alert went out within the Pagan community that someone had been systematically flagging articles for deletion relating to Pagan authors, events, and notable figures on the Inter

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Ten years of Boy in the Bands

Ten years ago, today I made my first blog post: a prayer. In the meantime, I have written more than 3,400 posts, developed some resources and welcomed more than 7,100 comments. The last 10 years seen

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Re-Imagining UUism: Part 3: Rene Girard

Part 1 Part 2 I don't know why I first read Gil Bailie's Violence Unveiled. It was quite a while ago, perhaps ten years or more.  I don't even remembering reading it for the first time.  I do remember

Scented Purple

Does the sight of lilacs call their scent to mind? Usually it works the other way, and scent pulls us back into memory, delivering us in an instant to a time and place that we didn’t even know we coul

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"Chalicelight - What a blessing the diversity of life is! May we care for, share in & delight in..."

“Chalicelight - What a blessing the diversity of life is! May we care for, share in & delight in such blessings!” - Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi

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"Those were good old times, it may be thought, when baron and peasant feasted together. But the one..."

“Those were good old times, it may be thought, when baron and peasant feasted together. But the one could not read, and made his mark with a sword-pommel, and the other was held as dear as a favorite

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"Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art everything? When thou wert,..."

“Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity, — then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst

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Johnny We Loved Ye, But Hardly Knew Ye

May 22, 1992 was the last broadcast of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on NBC.   It ended a thirty year run that began in New York as the young comedian and game show host took over the reigns of

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Morning Prayer May 23, 2013

Awake, my heart, to how Love calls me today. Like the rose welcoming the songbirds fleeing the hawk, may I make refuge and way for those seeking safety and love. Like the songbirds, after fear may I c

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Evening Prayer May 23, 2013

Beloved, help me hold onto the courage I have, nurture it, and follow it through for love, for mercy, for goodness' sake. When I have had to scurry away, flee, or retreat, may I have the courage to go

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Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part II

In 2009 there were some anecdotal stories surfacing of water bottles being vandalized and border patrol agents shooting holes in the bottles.  THe government stated this was not true and it was all an

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Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part 1

In the afternoon the SOAWatch Delegation went to Southside Presbyterian Church to hear Rev. John Fife, past minister of this congregation and Stephanie and Alejandro of the Southside Day Labor Center,

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I Fail the Bechdel Test

I am probably the last person on Earth to find out about this.  I may look like I’m all hip and groovy or whatever hip and groovy people call themselves this year, but in fact, I am slow in picking up

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The River

I don't know if I can imagine my life without this river.  It is as though no matter how many times the world is destroyed-(and by the world I mean their worlds, our world, my world- as if there were

A fiddle-and-lecture order of service

In one step, from the medieval to Modernism. The Western Conference Unitarians — think of the middle third of the United States a hundred and more years ago — were known for a kind of bibical rational

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The Female/Female Statuory Rape Case: What is the Moral of this Story?

There is a news story that came to my attention yesterday when one of my friends posted a plea on Facebook.  In case you have not read about it, a high school senior named Kaitlyn, who recently turned

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Hand-made Endangered Species Cards for a good cause

Endangered Species Cards created by the Service is Our Prayer Class are still on sale. Each card has a cover picture of an endangered species and a quote from one of our kids on the back. They cost $5

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A question occurs to me

While reading the latest news about the unfolding IRS scandal, and the offhand suggestion that "even in the best of times," the Internal Revenue Service is "the federal government's most reviled agenc