In my Easter sermon for 2022 I challenge us to go beyond the idea that there is such a singular thing as the truth.
Troubling the Truth (Easter 2022)
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Reimaging Care
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, February 5, 2022 It is good to be back in the pulpit. I miss you when I am gone. Not that I particularly went anywhere. I spent most of the last month holed up in my home office working on finishing the manuscript for the book I have been writing on populism and religion. I am grateful to have had the support of this congregation...
Possibilites
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, December 12, 2021 This is my second sermon on the theme of reimagining possibilities. Last week, at the end of my first sermon on the series, I invited you to attend to the world and share with me something beautifully unanticipated that you encountered: an exquisite movement, an inspiring sound, or a wondrous object. Several of...
Unexpected Gifts
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In this sermon, I encourage us to open ourselves to the beauty of the world and the miracles that surround us.
All Souls Homily 2021
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, October 31, 2021 It is so good to have the choir back. The impact that COVID has had on live music or, really, let me be honest, live performance or gathering of any kind, has been devastating. Coming together to sing, or to be sung to, is one of the oldest human activities. It is possible that collective song predates language...
The Transient and the Permanent
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, September 26, 2021 It is good to be back in the pulpit. I have missed you. I have not been gone from First Houston these past weeks. But I have been absent from Sunday morning worship. And worship, this thing the congregation does together–whether online or in-person–sits at the core of the life we share. The title of...
Welcome and Explanation of the Service of Lamentation for the 20th Anniversary of 9-11
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as presented at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, September 11, 2021 Welcome to this service marking the twentieth anniversary of the attacks on September 11th. I am the Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen, and along with the Rev. D. Scott Cooper, and on behalf of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, I thank you for your presence and participation on this solemn occasion. Today...
Turn the World Around
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We imagine and co-create the world together. We can imagine a different one than we have now.
When Our Heart in a Holy Place
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In this sermon I ask, what makes a place a holy place?
Gather the Spirit
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We gather the spirit of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston for the first in-person service since the start of the pandemic.