Martin Luther King wasn’t just “Dr. King” he was a seminary-educated, ordained, Christian minister. His vision for black Americans was… Read more The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King
Category: Sermons
For Unto Us a Child is Born
Marshall Rosenberg in his work on non-violent communication, discounts the need to dwell on the past and advises instead to… Read more For Unto Us a Child is Born
Be Not Afraid
In the Christmas story, angels tell Mary, Joseph and later the Shepherds, “Do not be afraid.” Something wonderful but challenging is… Read more Be Not Afraid
Re-Dedicating the Temple
The story of Hanukah tells us that once the temple had been defiled by Antiochus and won back by the… Read more Re-Dedicating the Temple
And Then There Was You
After weaving together several strands from several sources that form our inherited identity, at last we come to the most… Read more And Then There Was You
An Honest Reckoning
I like to say that Unitarian Universalism is a “reality-based” religion. I mean both that we honor science and are… Read more An Honest Reckoning
We are the Heretics
The UU historian Earl Morse Wilbur named the core principles of Unitarian Universalism as “Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance.” Freedom means… Read more We are the Heretics
Election Day Sermon
One way to define our identity is to name our core principles: we are what we value. On the eve… Read more Election Day Sermon
Re-Enchanting the World
By the time the Unitarian and Universalist theologies were incorporated into religious institutions of our own, much of our faith… Read more Re-Enchanting the World
On Our Own
Our religious history is grounded in Judaism and Christianity but crucially passed through a Humanist lens 500 or so years… Read more On Our Own