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Category Archives: Barack Obama
Ten Best Reasons to Go Home for Thanksgiving
I am not necessarily a fan of David Letterman, but I am totally a fan of lists. So in honor of this Thanksgiving season, I am offering my own weird list of ten things that make me totally delighted to … Continue reading
Barack in Berlin
At first, I was not going to write about Barack Obama’s Berlin speech here, in keeping with my evolving policy about which things I would choose to blog about in my several venues. But I found I could not help … Continue reading
A Letter to Barack
Dear Sen. Obama: I am writing to you as a liberal religious leader, personally committed to the values you have so brilliantly represented in the public square, and as a black woman who is grateful that I am alive at … Continue reading
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Alice Says It All…
A long time ago, when I wanted to be the world’s greatest writer of small, exquisitely beautiful short stories, there were three people I read with fear and trembling: John Cheever, James Alan McPherson, and Alice Walker. I never did … Continue reading
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Tagged Barack Obama, Writers and Writing, Yale
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A Letter to Hillary
Dear Senator Clinton: You don’t know me, though I know perhaps too much about you. In any case, let me introduce myself. I’m a pastor of a Unitarian Universalist congregation in New York. I’ve been married for 24 years, to … Continue reading
Fresh Air
For some time, I have taken it as an article of faith that Barack Obama should be the next President of the United States; I felt that way from the moment I heard him speak at the Democratic National Convention … Continue reading
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Tagged Barack Obama, Cultural Commentary, Political Commentary, Politics, Racism, Religion, Worship
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In Praise of Keith Olbermann
Once upon a time, I was a talking head at MSNBC. It was a brand-new cable channel then, and I was still more writer and cultural critic than seminarian. But my weekly gig there–courtesy of Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter … Continue reading
Posted in Barack Obama, Democracy, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Privilege, Reflections
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Plantation Politics, Part Two
As a Unitarian Universalist, I am obliged by covenant to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person. As a minister within this free religious tradition, I have a special obligation to attend to these affirmations. But I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Barack Obama, Political Commentary, Politics, Racism, Religion, Unitarian Universalism, Women
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Plantation Politics
Is Hillary Clinton running a racist campaign? Until today, I would have said, “not very.” But that is probably because I have been in denial. Monday evening, even in the face of the looming Eliot Spitzer scandal, I found myself … Continue reading
Life After Prop 8
What can I say? What a bummer it was to wake up to the glory of Barack Obama’s election as President of the United States, and then to know that Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage, won in California. Talk about … Continue reading →
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