I do not identify as a disabled person. Our society has more or less shaped a....
On Not Waiting to be the Hummingbird (sermon – redux)
First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington October 26, 2025 Reverend Karen G. Johnston, Senior Minister A quarter century ago, I asked the coordinator of my grandmother’s hospice care, how my grandmother was doing – not medically, but....
Sing Out Love: A Brief & Incomplete History of Our Hymnody (sermon)
[This sermon was written, but due to time constraints, not actually delivered....
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 entitled, “The Heroic Work of Repentance:” Intentions don't fix harm. Reasons don't fix harm. Fixing harm is only possible when we bravely face the gap between the story....
We Are All Bound Up Together (sermon)
Part IHistory is being corrupted by those in power. Black history is being....
They Bring More BS? We Bring More Joy! (sermon)
First Unitarian Universalist Society Burlington September 7, 2025 Water Ingathering Reverend Karen G. Johnston At the national meeting of UU ministers in June, in the days before General Assembly, one of my colleagues - in fact, the....
