I realize it is a bit late, but I thought I would go ahead and publish my list of books read in 2015. As in the past, this is the list of all of the books I read to completion, page-by-page. It doesn’t include another 100 or so books that I spent some period of time looking at for scholarly purposes. In 2015, thanks to the prompting of Charles Petersen, I read Elena Ferrante’s fantastic...
I learned today that my paper “The Ku Klux Klan, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Cultural Apocalypse” has been accepted for the 2015 Harvard Divinity School Graduate Religion Conference Ways of Knowing. Here’s the abstract that I submitted: In the wake of the catastrophic violence of World War I, American social movements across the ideological spectrum deployed...
I am currently seeking preaching engagements for the 2015-2016 congregational year. My schedule is fairly open at the moment but I am particularly interested in finding preaching engagements for the autumn. Here’s a bit about me, for those who might have stumbled upon this blog post via social media: I am a fourth year PhD candidate in Harvard’s American Studies program. My current academic work...
I am pleased to announce that I’m receipent of the 2014 Skinner Sermon Award for my sermon “Through Eyes that Have Cried.” The UUA will be putting up the text of the sermon eventually. In the meantime, you can read it here.
I will be preaching at the First Parish in Cambridge on June 28, 2015.
I am pleased to announce that I’ll be preaching at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Andover on May 17, 2015.
I just learned that I’ve won the 2015 Dana McLean Greeley Award for my sermon “This Land is Your Land?”
My friend Rev. Ian White Maher stirred up a bit of conversation when I published his guest post “A More Beautiful World: The Challenges of Unitarian Universalist Military Chaplaincy.” In addition to substantive conversation on Facebook, Rev. Tom Schade over at The Lively Tradition and Rev. Cynthia Kane at Captain Reverend Mother posted responses. I am still formulating my own thoughts...
[Colin’s note: My good friend the Rev. Ian White Maher wrote this piece in response to the Rev. Rebekah Montgomery’s 2014 sermon for the UUA’s Service of the Living Tradition. We have decided to post it here in the hopes of starting a much needed conversation within our shared religious tradition.] “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of...
Thoughts on Laborfrom the Dial for April, 1841.by Theodore Parker “God has given each man a back to he clothed, a mouth to be filled, and a pair of hands to work with.” And since wherever a mouth and a back are created a pair of hands also is provided, the inference is unavoidable, that the hands are to be used to supply the needs of the mouth and the back. Now as there is one mouth...