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...
Arriving in England
Though Monday was officially the start of my sabbatical, I arrived in London on Friday. I have mixed feelings about being here. I am grateful for and excited about starting my sabbatical. At the same time, it seems that in the last week a number of folks in the church have come down with COVID. And I am worried about them and the congregation. But part of the point of being on sabbatical is that...
Books Read in 2020
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...