Love Wins: The Reluctant Prophet in Us All (sermon)

Reading You might remember that in January, I quoted Nelba Marquez-Greene,....


April 19, 2013: It Could Have Been Otherwise

The press conference of official leaders – governor, police, U.S. attorney --....


Chris Antal's blog: Back Online

For those folks who read my post about Rev. Chris Antal, UU military chaplain, and his brave, prophetic actions, his blogs are back online....


The Holy Story of Our Lives (sermon)

This sermon was preached at First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Chelmsford....


Spiritually-Sound Impulses: Pulpit Exchanges & Congregational Polity

Yes, this one might be a little boring.  Yes, the topic is not particularly....


The Strength to Withstand Not Knowing Why

I am praying and wishing and hoping for… what?  It is so hard in times like these to know what it is to ask for, what it is to wish for, what it is to do.  Of course, there is the wish that we have that it didn’t happen, that we could take it all....


Explaining a Segregated Playground: Dr. Howard Thurman's Love for His Daughters

Later this morning, I will be preaching at First Parish Unitarian Universalist....


"With Our Thoughts We Make the World"

Me: [I post one of about a thousand pro-immigrant rights/justice items on my....


Repentance and (no) Reluctance: A Confession for America

This semester at Hartford Seminary, I am taking a course entitled, “Suffering, Theodicy, and Repentance: Interreligious Readings of Job and Jonah,” taught by Yehezkel Landau.  Interreligious, in this case, means that we are looking at these two....


So Many Kind Faces: UU Buddhist Fellowship Convocation

Can you see me there in the back with the striped sweater? I did not make a....