A celebration of the spiritual power found within H-town icon Beyoncé!
The War on The Poor
Under the current President the United States is moving from the War on Poverty to the War on the Poor.
Widening Love’s Circle: Spirit Vision 2050
The sermon I preached before the members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston voted to call me with a 97% yes vote.
Beyond Hope
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.
Through Eyes That Have Cried (Houston)
A sermon reflecting on my recent participation in a border witness trip organized by Texas Impact.
Liberating Love: ARticle II
The text of my sermon discussing the proposed revisions to Article II of the UUA's bylaws.
Widening Love’s Circle: Stewardship
The sermon celebrating the start of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston's 2023-2024 stewardship campaign.
Widening Love’s Circle
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, February 18, 2023 He drew a circle that shut me out–Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But Love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle that took him in! Those words might be familiar. They have long been popular in Unitarian Universalist circles. They come from the poet and lifelong Universalist Edwin Markham. Active in the...
To Give, To Receive
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, October 16, 2022 The Unitarian Universalist theologian Rebecca Parker has always been clear eyed about the purpose of our religious communion. In essay after essay, in book after book, writing alone or with a collaborator, she has told us that we gather in “hope for the recognition and realization of paradise on earth, rather than...
Troubling the Truth (Easter 2022)
In my Easter sermon for 2022 I challenge us to go beyond the idea that there is such a singular thing as the truth.