as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, November 17, 2024 My text for this Sunday consisted of three separate segments: a pulpit editorial, a set of readings created with the assistance of ChatGPT, and a sermon. Pulpit Editorial Some Unitarian Universalist congregations have the tradition of pulpit editorials. These are short theological reflections by a minister on...
A post-election sermon reflecting on the need to build Beloved Community.
We are living through an Age of Anxiety. In this sermon, I offer some reflections on how we might manage the seemingly unending anxiety in our lives.
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, October 13, 2024 Next Sunday, you will be holding a special meeting to call me as First Unitarian Universalist’s settled Senior Minister. If the vote goes ahead as I hope it will, I will be the eighth person in the congregation’s history to hold that role. This morning and next, I want to spend our time together reflecting on our...
A sermon reflecting on my recent participation in a border witness trip organized by Texas Impact.
A sermon for Covenant Sunday 2024 on the nature of First Unitarian Universalist's covenant.
In this sermon given in advance of Indigenous Peoples Day, I link the current conflict in Israel-Palestine to the ongoing process of colonialism in the Western Hemisphere and the Doctrine of Discovery.
Populism is a political ontology, in which political being is centered on the question of collective identity. It is also a political theology embedded within constitutional democracy.
In this sermon in honor of MLK's birthday, I consider where we might find revolutionary love today.
My 2021 Easter sermon.