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Not everyone is equally interested in Jesus, but, we need not see Jesus as our personal savior to sense his importance both to our culture and to many individuals. My goal in this sermon series on the images of Jesus is to present a corrective to much of the popular approach to who Jesus was [...]
Lydia Maria Francis Child, Maria Mitchell, Julia Ward Howe and Margaret Sanger
March is Woman’s History Month and we have two wonderful groups of girls from our congregation who received special Girl Scout Awards today. Therefore, I am highlighting these women who had some important things in common. All were all born in the 1800’s [...]
Take a moment right now and ask yourself: “What would my life be like if I hadn’t discovered this congregation and Unitarian Universalism?” Really, take a moment to think about what your life would be like without this faith community?In 1981, I discovered a place for me within Unitarian Universalism. Two roads diverged [...]
In my last sermon in this series, Jesus and the Christian Scripture I focused on Jesus as a human being who was clearly recognized as a holy man or spirit person. Jesus, a spirit person trying to make his way home, to the holy mystery that is all around us and within us. People saw [...]
A modern day rendition of the question Jesus asked: “Who do you say I am?”
They answered: “You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma in which we found the ultimate meaning of our interpersonal relationship.”
And Jesus said, “WHAT?”‘
Thomas Jefferson, our third U.S. President and self-proclaimed Unitarian sat down to read [...]
Coretta Scott King, known first as the wife of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then as his widow, then as an avid proselytizer for his vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change, died early on Jan. 30, 2006 at Santa Monica Hospital, in Baja California, Mexico, near San Diego. She was 78. [...]
This summer during my three weeks as the guest minister in England, I visited Down House, Charles Darwin’s home of 40 years. This visit was both an intellectual and a spiritual high point for me. Standing in Charles Darwin’s study where he wrote On the Origin of Species was inspiring. I thought, 150 years ago, [...]
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg….
Abraham Lincoln
There are numerous claims about Abraham Lincoln believing in or disbelieving in one or another reli-gious view. He was a self identified deist and freethinker. There were those who claimed [...]
February is “Black History Month, but I think it is important to lift up the history of people of color each and every month of the year as we did with our Kwanza celebration and focus on Fannie Lou Hamer last month. Ours is a diverse congregation when it comes to theological perspectives, religious backgrounds, [...]