My 2026 Easter sermon.
Easter, Love at the Center: That All Might Be Saved
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A Growth Strategy for the Unitarian Universalist Association
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It is quite common for the Unitarian Universalist Association to get compared to the United Church of Christ. Both have common roots in the congregationalist tradition and both have a tendency towards cultural, political, and theological liberalism. So, it is with interest that I read Anthony Robinson’s piece “An Obituary for the United Church of Christ?” Robinson’s piece, based on research...
Pilgrimage
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A homily on the nature of pilgrimage in these times
A Prayer for a Service Celebrating the Life and Legaprcy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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...
Charles Sumner: The True Greatness of the Nation
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A sermon honoring the legacy of the great Unitarian, abolitionist, and Senator Charles Sumner and the recent martyr to human rights, Renee Nicole Good.
Paradise, Now or in the Next World
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The third sermon on the dissenting tradition focuses on dissenting from the politics of cruelty.
Eulogy for Remington Alessi
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A eulogy for Remington Alessi, the Texas chainsaw lawyer.
My Installation as Senior Minister
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My installation as the Senior Minister of First Houston has taken place!
Revelation is not Sealed
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In this sermon I consider the place of ongoing revelation in the Unitarian Universalist tradition.
Love at the Center
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as prepared for the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, July 13, 2025 Recent events have been overwhelming, for me personally, for my family, for our congregation, and, indeed, for many in the state of Texas. I have been in something of a state of shock from the relentless media cycle and sheer number of hateful messages that we have received. The convergence of a horrific disaster...