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...
as preached on September 14, 2025 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston If you pass by First Unitarian Universalist on weekday mornings then you are probably familiar with a sight. For the past five years, two members of our congregation have been keeping regular vigil near the corner of Fannin and Southmore. One of them bears sign that reads, “Stop the Zionist Genocide, Micah 2:1...
In my Easter sermon for 2022 I challenge us to go beyond the idea that there is such a singular thing as the truth.
The policy choices that led to the winter storm disaster in Texas are a moral evil. In this sermon, I argue why.
The second source of Unitarian Universalism is the “words and deeds of prophetic women and men.” Throughout Black History month the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston is exploring this source with a series of services on the teachings of prophetic people from Africa or of African descent. In this sermon, I discuss the North African theologian Origen, who taught about universal...