Ritual for Broken Times (updated)

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


Ouch, Oops, Thank You, A-ha (sermon)

We start with a quote from Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, an excerpt from an essay....


We Are All Bound Up Together (sermon)

Part IHistory is being corrupted by those in power. Black history is being distorted and deleted. Not only whitewashed, but sand-blasted away.  Deformed and disappeared. Explicitly and insistently by those in power. By executive order and by those....


Here Comes the Sun-Day (sermon)

First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington September 21,....


They Bring More BS? We Bring More Joy! (sermon)

First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington September 7,....


In These Times (sermon)

First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington August 24, 2025 To start us off: three stories about walls. Number One: Thirty-eight years ago, I spent a summer living and working in West Berlin. The wall, built before I was born,....


The Absence of the Word ‘Only’

Today, I took a bike ride to places Unknown. Or at least Unplanned. And ended....


The Changing Shape of Our Faith: A History Sermon (sermon)

Shouldn’t all sermons begin with a lava lamp metaphor? Some of you have....


Reflections on Being Brave (sermon)

May 18, 2025 Reverend Karen G. Johnston First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington [this brief reflection was given after Congresswoman Becca Balint delivered a pre-recorded message as the sermon for this morning's service.] These....


Transformation: An Easter Sermon (sermon)

April 20, 2025 First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington Reverend....