“I spent several days over last weekend as a volunteer webworker covering the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Salt Lake City. These annual confabs are always a highlight of the summer for me as a UU. They’re also one of the best shows going if you want to remember, all the way down, what it means to be liberal in America — or understand, once again, why religious liberals are so critically important to the ultimate success of the progressive project. There are a lot of theories of change; but like many of us, I’m particularly drawn to the one that says that if you want to change reality, you start by changing the story.” (07/08/09)