I am delighted to announce that I will be preaching at the First Unitarian Church of Providence on January 28th!
New Preaching Date: The First Unitarian Church of Providence
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Words from Your Minister for December 2017
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Dear Friends: Tomorrow, I am going to spend much of the day in Ashby. In the morning I will be preaching a sermon entitled “Into the Dark of the Night” during the regular service. Then in the afternoon I will be offering the opening prayer for the town’s annual Christmas tree lighting. Asa and I are both excited about the tree lighting and the beef and vegetable stew that follows it. Later in the...
New Preaching Date: First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
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I will be preaching at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia on April 8, 2018!
New Preaching Date: First Parish Cambridge
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I am excited to announce that I will be preaching at First Parish Cambridge this coming Sunday (November 12, 2017)!
Words from Your Minister for November 2017
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Dear Friends: I am looking forward to seeing many of you later this morning for our regular Sunday service. I will be preaching a sermon entitled “Through All the Tumult and the Strife” in which I reflect on what I’ve learned over the course of my ten years as an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. I will be back on November 19th to co-officiate the annual community Thanksgiving service...
Words from Your Minister for October 2017
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Dear Friends: I return tomorrow to Ashby to lead the first of my two services for the month. “Abolition Democracy” is offered as part of an association-wide teach-in on white supremacy. You can learn more about the teach-in here: part of the sermon, I will be talking some about why I think it is important for our congregation to participate. A bit later in the week I will be presenting at...
First Parish Ashby
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I am delighted to announce that I have accepted a postion as the minister of the First Parish Church, Unitarian Universalist, Ashby, Massachusetts. I will be serving the congregation part-time. Most of my work will consist of preaching twice a month. I will also be offering some adult religious education and pastoral care. Here is the email I sent to the congregation to introduce myself: Dear...
New Preaching Date: Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL, October 21, 2017
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I am excited to be preaching at the historic Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL on October 21, 2017. Unity Temple is one of two Unitarian Universalists designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright and I look forward to taking part in a moving and uplifting worship service there!
John Morris Has Died (A Remembrance)
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Yesterday the New York Times brought news that famed photo editor John Morris died at the age of 100. Morris was the photo editor of the New York Times during the Vietnam War and made the decision to publish two of the most famous images of the war on the newspaper’s front page–the informally titled “Napalm Girl” by Huỳnh Công Út and Eddie Adams’s “Saigon Execution.” He...
Paper Presentation: Unitarian Universalism and the White Supremacist Theological Imaginary
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I will be presenting a paper entitled “Unitarian Universalism and the White Supremacist Theoligical Imaginary” at the 2017 meeting of Collegium. Here’s the text of the accepted paper proposal: This exercise in comparative theology will contrast the white supremacist theological imaginary with the theological imaginaries of two Unitarian Universalism’s foundational figures:...