A post-election sermon reflecting on the need to build Beloved Community.
A New World in Our Hearts: Reimagining Democracy
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Beyond Hope
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We are living through an Age of Anxiety. In this sermon, I offer some reflections on how we might manage the seemingly unending anxiety in our lives.
The Next Revolution
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, October 13, 2024 Next Sunday, you will be holding a special meeting to call me as First Unitarian Universalist’s settled Senior Minister. If the vote goes ahead as I hope it will, I will be the eighth person in the congregation’s history to hold that role. This morning and next, I want to spend our time together reflecting on our...
Climate Revival
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A sermon preached during the Unitarian Universalist Association's 2024 Climate Revival.
Future Visions, Future Selves
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The first sermon in the 2024-2025 series, "Future Visions, Future Selves," places play and imagination at the center of religious life.
Grace Lee Boggs: The Next American Revolution
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The ninth sermon in the series Lives of the Spirit focuses on the Detroit based activist Grace Lee Boggs.
Remarks Celebrating the Installation of Solar Panels at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston
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The remarks I gave at a press conference celebrating the installation of solar panels at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston.
Widening Love’s Circle: Stewardship
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The sermon celebrating the start of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston's 2023-2024 stewardship campaign.
Ordinary/Extraordinary; an ordination sermon for J Sylvan
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as preached February 26, 2023 at Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church, Houston, Texas There is much in the ordinary life of a religious professional that more secular people find extraordinary. A friend recently reminded of this over dinner. A word about my friend, he is a well-known writer and war correspondent. Most of us would probably describe his life as extraordinary. He has reported from...
The Ground of Being
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, November 6, 2022 We are in the midst of one of liberal democracy’s great civic rituals: the country’s biennial elections. Their stakes seem to be much higher than usual. In the past weeks, I have talked with more than few of you who have reported losing sleep about their possible outcomes. Pundits, politicians, scholars, and a...