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Dave Williams died suddenly in December. A remarkable and wonderful man. Leslie's eulogy to her husband and to a marriage full of love is something even those who didn't know him could enjoy, here.

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David Belden

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Fiction

Changing the World 

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Memoir & Commentary

Ken Belden
1912 - 2002
My appreciation of my father, given at his funeral in Knebworth, England, in December 2002. And his obituary in The Independent.

Sermon
Gave this sermon on Hope in July '02. "Now I see the world almost in reverse: it’s not that there are a few good things happening in a world that’s getting steadily worse. Now I understand that there are many terrible things happening in a world that is getting steadily better." In this context, I am talking about this as a spiritual, not a political, issue.

Columns

It seems 9/11 can reinforce your beliefs about God, whether those are that  God's finger nudged the plane aside from your desk,  that a plane-nudging God is impossible, or that God is impossible. (More)

Radio Essays

Four Generations of Beldens

The Great Male Secret

Christmas Then & Now

Values for Your Kid--on Joining the Unitarians

The Paradoxes of Capitalism: The Left Needs the Corporations, The Corporations Need the Left.

Uhuru
Am posting a scanned copy of 'Uhuru - A Working Alternative', a book written in 1976 about a project some friends and I started in East Oxford, England. The first half of the book is here.

Plays

 

The Virgin & Sparkly Boy

The alien came for the UFO watcher, at the same moment that his Catholic girlfriend had a vision of the Virgin. But what would the Virgin make of the alien, in his sparkly Elvis suit, and who did the alien think the Virgin was?

Read the 10 minute play

 

Three Novels in the Gendering Series:

Children of Arable

On her twentieth birthday Mary saw a pregnant woman, and fainted.

More about Children of Arable

 

To Warm The Earth

After Mana killed the sacred tiger...

More about To Warm The Earth

 

Men and Demons

The first two novels had strong female heroes and weak or vicious men. In this one, I wanted to know if anything good could be said about men.

More about Men and Demons


See Personal News - finally I am getting a job changing the world...

Network of Spiritual Progressives.
 In April 2006 started a Hudson Valley chapter. Details here. Help offer the country a spiritual / religious alternative to the religious right. An article I wrote about this is here.

Since June 2006 we have had a radio show Spiritually Speaking on WVKR, Vassar College Radio, 91.3 FM, Tuesdays 4-5. You can listen to shows on our local NSP website, left hand column. An article about it is here.

For more information, contact
info@spiritualprogressiveshv.org
 Hudson Valley Chapter:  www.spiritualprogressiveshv.org
NSP National: www.spiritualprogressives.org.

For those finding this page after reading my piece on humanist rituals in The New Humanist (the British print magazine) November 2005 or hearing my debate on the topic with philosopher 
AC Grayling on BBC Radio Four, on Nov 27 2005, you may be interested in a sermon I gave recently that expands on the idea of Agnostic Religion. 

Here's a great article by Rabbi Michael Lerner.

I had the cover article in the British magazine The New Humanist, here (Nov/Dec 2004) arguing that however much they may disdain religion, secular humanists must work with religious progressives to expand freedom and democracy.

Visit  OpenDemocracy.net
for which I wrote 42 columns between Nov 02 and  March 05. Find them here. Plus my predictions for 2006 Straws of liberalism in the evangelical wind is here. 

Religious progressives:
Sojourners, Tikkun and my Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills

 

Major Personal News: 

We are moving back to the Bay Area. I start as Managing Editor of Tikkun magazine on March 15 2007. Rowan graduates from high school in June and is committed to working this summer with Wayfinder. Debi will stay here to see him through and continuing her job at the Mohonk Preserve, and will do the big move to the Bay Area in August. I will visit a few times. It looks like Rowan will be going to college in Los Angeles - not certain which one yet. 

Contact me to find out more.

(I have bought an Apple computer and have no idea how to edit this page on it, so it may be a while before I make any changes here - March 10 2007). 

Old Friends

A while back I reconnected with my old college friend, Ken Lyen - I think it was Ken who found me through Google. Ken is an amazing person, a doctor and writer of musicals, blogger and film maker, author and founder of schools in Singapore. Here's one of his many websites.

He is promoting his FilmsAsia site too.