Ditto God as Poetry

"Are you ever going to talk about God?" I am currently and temporarily serving....


City Called Wait: Where Not Everything Is Lost

Not all that long ago, I flew to the West Coast to visit my mother. ....


Hope with Feet: Stepping Into the Great Turning (sermon)

 Village Church, Cummington, MA ~ June 2, 2013 Karen G. Johnston, Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry READING #1 “Causes and effects assume history marches forward, but history is not an army.  It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip....


Open Letter to Rachel Maddow (redux)

I am posting this in recognition of an event happening here in Northampton on....


On Not Knowing the Language: Interfaith Work on Immigration Justice

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.  It is the ultimate....


Colbert reacts to the Pope's declaration…

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/426700/may-23-2013/redemption-for-all ...but doesn't call him a UU. This is reference to my last....


Awake People Be Awake: The Risks of UU Exceptionalism and Spiritual Manifest Destiny

You may not know it, or even agree with it, but you may very well be a....


Paying Attention to the Voice of that Woman: President Obama and a Spiritual Act of Witness

"Can you tell the Muslim people that their lives are as precious as our....


Meditations on Grave Digging

I am not known to shy away from death (not yet, at least).   Lest you forget or didn’t know, I am the foster parent (shhh, don’t tell DCF) who, when the cat hid away to die and was found twelve days later, I crawled under the porch, dragged the....


What is Worth Saving? (sermon)

Village Church, Cummington, MA May 19, 2013 Karen G. Johnston Candidate for the....