Robert V. Taylor
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Robert V. Taylor is the author of "A New Way to Be Human" (New Page Books, April 2012) and Chair of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation in New York City. He is a native of South Africa and an openly gay Episcopal priest. He is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York. He lives in Seattle and rural Eastern Washington.

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Embracing Inclusion Banishes Fear

(0) Comments | Posted May 26, 2012 | 11:15 AM

Openly gay Air Force cadet graduates gift us with their pioneering courage! At personal cost, they point to the truth that the moral arc of the universe bends toward inclusion. Their courage is an invitation to trust in our own imagination and voice, embracing inclusion that banishes fear....

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Death: The Final Word?

(2) Comments | Posted May 24, 2012 | 6:00 PM

Most Americans believe there is an afterlife. Regardless of what you believe about an afterlife death slams the brakes on the present, unlocking a cavalcade of memories. In the afterglow of that impact there is an unexpected invitation to a container of wholeness. Death is not the final...

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Upending Political Vitriol

(3) Comments | Posted April 23, 2012 | 8:07 AM

Political conversation is dead in the water. The jadedness and helplessness that many people experience only result in disenfranchising ourselves and depriving the world of your unique voice. There is another engaged, proactive way that requires you taking your place at the table. Our humanity is at stake!

Our culture...

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Religious Freedom and Birth Control Debate: Religion's Death Wish?

(3) Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 2:06 PM

The Luddite approach is not a winning one for religion. Denial of access to contraception and the right of religion to freely discriminate strutting under the guise of religious liberty is no liberty at all. It is a churlish death wish competing against a more generous spirituality of freedom rooted...

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God Pukes at Gays?

(259) Comments | Posted January 27, 2012 | 9:10 AM

Does God vomit at the thought of gay and lesbian people? That's the graphic image that O'Neal Dozier, pastor of Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach Florida, uses. It's radically different from the one that many of us know of a God of inclusion and love. Not vomiting...

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