What a fabulous floral display. Look at the variety of flowers. Like snowflakes, no two plant species have flowers that are exactly alike. Blossoms have so few parts and yet the fact that the flowers of no plant species are exactly alike is amazing. It is mind blowing. Among flowering plants there are sweet smelling [...]
Opening Words:
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created–created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to [...]
We can do or find many things alone, within our families or in a small group, but there are certain times and some important things that we can only find within community. We come together this morning within our religious community for many different reasons. Some come for spiritual nourishment. Others come wanting to be [...]
Nathalie and Chris we are pleased that you dedicated your daughter, and Stephanie and Jeremiah we are pleased that you dedicated your son here at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing today. It is exciting that we are having such a baby boom here at church. I so enjoy seeing all the babies in [...]
When I was in grade school and high school during the 1950’s and 60’s science was highly valued in our country. The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, the first artificial space satellite on October 4, 1957. Then, on January 31, 1958, the United States successfully launched Explorer I.
I do not know about you, but [...]
Sometimes, a sermon is hard to write. Sometimes it is difficult to get an entire service to come together as a coherent whole. Sometimes my life gets so busy that it is hard to find time to think about a sermon, let alone write one. Sometimes we ministers feel like our creative ability is exhausted. [...]
I looked out my office window this week, seeing the red buds on bare branches I thought, what a miracle. Looking at the Gilpin twins, Michael Jr. and Daphne, either up close as I had the chance to do today, or from a distance in their parents arms, we can honestly agree, what a miracle. [...]
One of the storytellers of our age that I love is Rachel Naomi Remen. She wrote about George, a man who had patented a part of a medical invention. (My Grandfather’s Blessings, pp. 225-228) This story is about a wealthy man who built a successful company that manufactured and distributed these medical parts worldwide. George [...]
Did you know that our solar system, right now is moving through an interstellar cloud that physics tells us should not even exist. This interstellar cloud or fluff, as astronomers affectionately call it, holds together because it is more strongly magnetized than anyone thought. Its magnetic field provides the attraction that prevents its destruction. This [...]
February 12, will be Charles Darwin’s 201st birthday. Last year I participated along with about 1,000 other clerics worldwide in celebrating Evolution Weekend. Little known outside of Unitarian Universalist circles, is the fact that Darwin and Emma Wedgwood, his cousin and wife, were both raised Unitarians and that Darwin studied for the ministry. Darwin resisted [...]
