My sermon celebrating Juneteenth, 2023.
Juneteenth
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Books read in 2022
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A list of the books I read in 2022.
Ignorant as the Dawn
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A sermon on what is permanent and what is transient preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston.
Two Final Shows at the Fringe
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We only saw two Fringe shows our last two days in Edinburgh. Tuesday we went to “Are We All in a Cult?” by an obscure comedian whose stage name is Mowten and about whom I can find precious little information on the internet. And Wednesday we went to Dana Alexander’s “Don’t Start Me on White Jesus.” The rest of the time we either did straight on tourist things–visiting the Edinburgh Castle...
Walking the CNT’s Streets (or a Tour of Spanish Civil War Barcelona)
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Last week we went into Barcelona and went on a Spanish Civil War walking tour organized by Nick Lloyd and Catherine Howley. It’s been reviewed in the Guardian and other places. In many ways, it has been the best thing we’ve done in Spain: by turns educational, provocative, and emotional. The tour took place almost entirely along Las Ramblas and in the Gothic quarter. It started in Plaça de...
Prague
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After I left Oxford, I spent the weekend in Prague. Like my time in Oxford, the trip was primarily work related. I was there visiting the Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková. Her show at FotoFest 2022 will be held at First Houston. My father and I are curating it and the objective of the visit was to work with her to make the final selection of images for the exhibition. I think it is going to...
Frankenstein’s Theology
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In this third sermon on reimagining grief, I reflect on the theology of Frankenstein.
Mourning the Past
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In this sermon I consider how we might re-imagine mourning the past.
Grieving the Future
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In this sermon, I consider how we might grieve for losses that will occur in the future.
Books Read in 2020
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This past year was not a good year for reading. While a lot of people experienced as the pandemic as a time that allowed them to do more reading than usual it had the opposite impact for me. Being a single parent meant that whenever I finished with my own work I had to turn my attention to getting my son focused on completing his school work. Between my job, my scholarly writing, housework, and...