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While reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Spirit today I came across this gem about love: “Active love—for love that does not act has no existence…—aims at removing an evil from someone and being good to him.” 

I am pleased to announce that I will be returning to the Unitarian Church in Fall River on March 6th. 

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 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...