A Great Need: A Passover Sermon (sermon)

March 29, 2026 First Unitarian Universalist Society of....


Lessons from Icarus: A Sermon about AI (sermon)

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington March 22,....


Afterlives? Letting the Mystery Be (sermon)

March 1, 2026 First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington Reverend Karen G. Johnston, Senior Minister Some say once you're gone you're gone foreverAnd some say you're gonna come backSome say you rest in the arms of the Savior if in....


Grief Belongs to Us All (sermon)

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington February 8,....


Choose Hope (sermon)

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington Reverend Karen G.....


Choose to Bless the World (sermon)

I do not identify as a disabled person. Our society has more or less shaped a world that makes it easy for my body to function or move; that rewards the way my brain works. I end up taking much for granted because of this. Though increasingly less so as....


Wicked Ways (sermon)

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington November 23,....


On Not Waiting to be the Hummingbird (sermon – redux)

First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington October 26,....


Sing Out Love: A Brief & Incomplete History of Our Hymnody (sermon)

[This sermon was written, but due to time constraints, not actually delivered on Sunday, October 19, 2025 as part of a Sunday service introducing the new virtual hymnal, Sing Out Love, at First UU Society Burlington (VT). I promised to post the text of....


Ritual for Broken Times (updated)

written by me, a version of this ritual, written in 2018, is published in....