In the pit of our fragmentation and confusion, I urge citizens, journalists, and politicians to take up the noble task and promise of democracy.

We don't lack energy; we lack ingenuity and ethics. If we have the will, the way will open to solve peak oil scarcity and satisfy our needs. Appropriate technology is the intelligent and ethical human way.

Just because bullies arrogantly rile doesn't mean we should let them rule.

I have cautions and questions to add to the cultural conversation on whether and how to welcome and protect gay couples. While I want such couples to get the social sanction and legal protections they desire and deserve, I don't go on to assume all those cleaving to a traditional definition of marriage to be anti-gay. See also "Focus on the Family..." and "Marriage and Gays," below, for related considerations.

I'm no shaman, but I'll give tentative credence to those who might be. I'll have to stay true to what I know so far. I affirm our bodies in this material and energetic world - at least.

This dense sermon tries to round up the influences inherent in family and marriage - two million years in twenty minutes! Marriage and family are not so simple as being considered relative to gay marriage. I share these touchy, tricky topics with trepidation, for so far, neither side understands or accepts my reasoning.

The sermon was introduced by a newsletter column (included here following the sermon) and these develop an unpublished editorial "Marriage and Gays" which is posted further down in this web site.

The larger liberty is in Nature itself as the Creator has provided. That includes us, with our unalienable rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." We learn the laws that limit and allow from Nature more than scripture. The promise of America is that we can live up to our own inherent potentials as given by the Creator.

This sermon largely reports on and expands Joseph Chilton Pearce's "The Biology of Transcendence - A Blueprint of the Human Spirit"

The movie gently opens the old scandalous ideas that Jesus was sexual, mortal, and that the church seeks hide his humanness while shaming and misleading ours.

This lecture expresses a celebration of our sexuality as a vital part of our undoing the pernicious doctrine of Original Sin. We shouldn't judge negatively what the Creator made perfect.