The eighth sermon in the Lives of the Spirit series focuses on the Sicangu Lakota leader Mary Brave Bird.
Crying for America: Fannie Lou Hamer
The seventh sermon in the series Lives of the Spirit focuses on Fannie Lou Hamer.
Books read in 2023
The list of books I read in 2023.
The Practice of non-practice: Thich Nhat Hanh
The sixth sermon in the series "Lives of the Spirit" focuses on the life and teachings of the spiritual activist Thich Nhat Hanh.
The common Good: Howard Thurman
The fourth sermon in the "Lives of the Spirit" series focuses on the life and teachings of Howard Thurman.
Dorothy Day: Works of Mercy (Guest Blog Post by Rev. D. Scott Cooper)
The third sermon in the series "Lives of the Spirit" was delivered by the Rev. D. Scott Cooper. It focuses on the life and philosophy of the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, Dorothy Day.
Divine Pathos: Abraham Joshua Heschel
The second sermon in the series "Lives of the Spirit" focuses on the life and teaching of Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Lives of the Spirit
The first sermon in the 11 part series, lives of the spirit.
Self-Help
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, February 27, 2022 My sermon this morning is inspired by the person who won the right to “Name the Sermon” in last year’s auction. When I asked them what they would like me to preach about their answer was both simple and capacious: self-help. I responded with a desire for a bit more specificity. What about self-help? The...
Reimaging Care
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, February 5, 2022 It is good to be back in the pulpit. I miss you when I am gone. Not that I particularly went anywhere. I spent most of the last month holed up in my home office working on finishing the manuscript for the book I have been writing on populism and religion. I am grateful to have had the support of this congregation...