This speech, originally delivered to the graduating class of Southampton College on June 7, 1981, is excerpted from If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?... Read More

On Sunday, April 3, 2016, the fourth annual Dr. Irving & Annabel Wolfson Lecture was held at the UU Church of Worcester in Worcester,... Read More

With all the troubles in the world—radical Islamic terrorism, climate change, Donald Trump—it’s good that the religious right is focused on the biggest existential... Read More

Headlines this past spring claimed that for the first time ever, more than half of poll respondents around the world said they saw themselves... Read More

It’s graduation season, which means lots of pomp and circumstance (even for my daughter who, believe it or not, just participated in a two-hour... Read More

My Father Asks Me To Go To Church and write the day’s hymn numbers on a sheet of yellow paper. He read about a... Read More

NOW THAT DONALD TRUMP has nailed down the Republican Party’s nomination for president and Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee, we can look... Read More

WHEN SOMEONE WE LOVE DIES, it can intensely undermine our sense of stability and safety. Our lives have been changed forever, generally by forces... Read More

I BELONG TO A REALLY exclusive club—but not by choice. Eleven years ago I “escaped” from a hospice program and became one of the... Read More

HUMANISM HAS BEEN labeled by some as anthropocentric and given to speciesism, the belief that human beings are set apart and should be valued... Read More