I’m currently considering five [edit: six] names for a pro-tax organization, listed below in alphabetical order. If you have time and interest, I’d appreciate any sort of commentary you might want to give - what you like or don’t like, what the connotations are for you, other suggestions, anything ( Read more... )

I think I’m going forward with starting a pro-tax organization, but I need a name. I’ve never been good at coming up with names, so I’m hoping you folks might be willing to help ( Read more... )

I sent this email to my congressional representatives yesterday. So far all I’ve received in return is automated acknowledgements. I wonder whether I’ll get anything else ( Read more... )

I’m thinking about writing a new book and/or starting a new organization, and I’m curious about how you folks would respond to the following mini-manifesto. Comments would be appreciated. ( Read more... )

How would you stabilize the federal debt? There’s a group called the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that has created an on-line simulator that enables you to answer that question. I did it yesterday, and learned some things along the way - and I thought I already knew a fair amount. If you’re concerned about the federal debt, you ( Read more... )

My next-door neighbor died on Friday. She was 85, but no one had any premonition that her departure was imminent. I don’t even know why. I talked with her daughter right afterwards, while all the emergency vehicles were still there, but that was a time for hugging and crying, not yet a time for telling the story. We were still in the story ( Read more... )

I’ve been thinking a lot about what comes next in my life. After the church stuff blew it was good to take a couple months for friends and travel, but it’s clear that in the long run I need some sort of work - work that uses my brain and makes me feel like I’m contributing to the world in some way ( Read more... )

A few months ago I read a book titled What’s Right With Islam Is What’s Right With America. It struck me as a deeply wise book, full of insights into the best and worst aspects of both American and Muslim culture. Along with much historical and theological reflection, it calls for a new “Cordoba Initiative” to improve relations between Islam and ( Read more... )

It’s not been a bad summer, given that it started with an explosion at First Parish and resigning from most of the things I’d been doing for two years. (If you want to have the day get better as it goes on, start by eating a frog ( Read more... )

Wow it’s been a long time since I’ve posted ( Read more... )