A FOOLISH CONSISTENCY IS THE HOBGOBLIN OF LITTLE MINDS… ~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
presented at the chapel service of Harris Manchester College, January 21, 2026 There are many kinds of prayer. The petitionary requests of the divine intercession. Some times such words are offered imploringly, desperately, longing for the impossible. We beg of God—or however we conceptualize that which is greater than all yet resides within each—with words similar to those of Jesus, “Oh, my...
In my sermon in honor of Dr. King I reflect upon the evil that besets our city and our country and call for us to live lives guided by love.
A sermon honoring the legacy of the great Unitarian, abolitionist, and Senator Charles Sumner and the recent martyr to human rights, Renee Nicole Good.
In April Wayne State University Press will be publishing my book The Political Theologies of Populism: the Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1915-1930. Like a number of academic publishers, they require authors to pay for the rights of the illustrations. They also require authors to pay for indexing. The combined cost for both is approximately $3,000. I don’t have access to subvention funds...
My Nochebuena homily for 2025. Esta Navidad, cada Navidad, hay solamente un cuento. Es el cuento de un bebé y un milagro. Esta Navidad la historia es sobre un bebé que nace en un centro de detención de I.C.E. No, la historia es sobre un bebé que nace bajo las ruinas de Gaza. No, la historia es sobre un bebé que nace en un campo de re-fu-gia-dos en Sudán. No, la historia es sobre un bebé que nace...
A celebration of Jane Austen's 250th birthday!
In this sermon on the dissenting tradition I reflect upon lessons from Václav Havel's text The Power of the Powerless and the importance of the free pulpit.
The November installment of the series "A Dissenting Tradition" focuses on how we might continue to dissent when the politics of cruelty are ascendent.
In this next sermon on the tradition of religious dissent, I consider how dissent can be a family value.
The third sermon on the dissenting tradition focuses on dissenting from the politics of cruelty.